Re: Capt Samuel Smallcorn of Kittery Maine
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Capt Samuel Smallcorn of Kittery Maine
James Scamman 1/21/09
Through a Google search, I found the following:
SAMUEL SMALLCORN, Gunner and First Lieutenant.
Appointed Gunner, Aug. 12, 1776, of the Continental frigate
"Raleigh," Capt. Thomas Thompson, at wages of $15 a month.He did not remain on her long, as on Sept. 30, 1776, he was First Lieutenant of the brigantine "Reprisal," a privateer, then lying at Boston, Capt. John Wheelright; she was of about seventy tons, carried eight carriage guns (three pounders) and ten swivels, and seventy men, also provisioned for a cruise.Capt. Samuel Smallcorn married Jane Moore, Dec. 11, 1785, at Kittery, both residents.
SOURCE:Oliver P. Remick, A record of the services of the commissioned officers and enlisted men of Kittery and Eliot, Maine; who served their country on land and sea in the American Revolution, from 1775 to 1783 (Boston: A. Mudge & Son, printers, 1901.
SMALLCORN, SAMUEL, NH.Commander, Pennsylvania Privateers.
Samuel Smallcorn was a resident of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He was commissioned to the Pennsylvania Privateer
Schooner Beggar's Benison on 7 June 1777.Smallcorn sailed from Portsmouth in early June and both he and the privateer
were captured on 18 June by HM Frigate Milford
SOURCE: http://www.awiatsea.com/Officers/Officers%20S.htmlhttp://www.awiatsea.com/Officers/Officers%20S.html
American War of Independence-at Sea.
7 June 1777Beggar's Benison, PA. schooner.
Guns: 4, Crew: 17
Bond $5,000
Master: Samuel Smallcorn
Bonders: Samuel Smallcorn, Portsmouth, NH., George Gains,
Portsmouth, NH, and Jacob Sheafe, Jr., Portsmouth, NH,
Owners: Erskine, Donaldson & Co., Phildelphia, PA.
Witnesses: Ebenezer Thompston and Jonathan Blanchard.
SOURCE:Naval Records of the American Revolution 1775-1788,
by Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Pub. by Govt. Printing Office, 1906, 549 pages.
Marilyn
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Re: Capt Samuel Smallcorn of Kittery Maine
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