British New York Vice-Admiralty Court. Captured ship: Molly (master Joseph Elliot)....

British New York Vice-Admiralty Court.

Captured ship: Molly (master Joseph Elliot).

Capture history: an American merchant ship (schooner, 50 tons, 10 men) bound from Maryland to St Eustatius, laden with tobacco, staves, shingles; taken on 27 March 1780 in latitude 32°48'N, longitude 69°10'W by the loyalist privateer Whalebone (John Brice commanding), and brought into New York.

Intended voyage: from the United States to the Caribbean Islands.

Court papers numbered CP 1-3:-

• [CP 1]: affidavit of papers brought in by the prize master John Harford first lieutenant, 5 April 1780;
• [CP 2]: libel in Brice v The schooner Molly and her cargo, 5 April 1780;
• [CP 3]: monition, 5 April 1780.

[Decision: condemned, if no response to the monition by 26 April 1780].

Ship's Papers numbered SP 1-11: (Maryland papers)-

• SP 1: clearance, 30 December 1779;
• SP 2: owners' affidavit, 30 December 1779;
• SP 3: clearance bond, 30 December 1779;
• SP 4: crew list and agreement, 1779;
• SP 5-SP 7: lists of goods to be purchased in St Eustatius, 13 March 1780;
• SP 8: invoice of cargo consigned to William Smith, St Eustatius, Cambridge, Maryland, 13 March 1780, problably enclossed in SP 9;
• SP 9: letter from Archibald Patison & Co, owners, Cambridge, Maryland, to William Smith, St Eustatius, 13 March 1780;
• SP 10: owners instructions, 13 March 1780;
• SP 11: wrapper.

[Papers previously wrongly identified as Court papers: 1-3; Ship's papers: 4-14 (large pencil numbers): sorted and renumbered in 2025].

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