Identifier: revolutionaryser01gree (find matches)
Title: The Revolutionary services of John Greenwood of Boston and New York, 1775-1783;
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Greenwood, John, 1760-1819 Greenwood, Isaac J. (Isaac John), 1833-1911, ed
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Publisher: New York (The De Vinne Press)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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neral Cornwallis, and returning to NewYork she continued to cruise from that quarter duringthe following year (1782). On August i she returnedto the harbor chased by six French men-of-war, one ofthem an 84-gun ship; a few days before, after a longclose engagement off Cape Henlopen, she had taken thefrigate UAmazone, thirty-six guns, 300 men, but wasobliged to abandon her prize, though some of the crewwere brought in. On October 13 other prizes were sentin, one of them the Salem privateer Hendrick, capturedSeptember 29 off Bermuda. On her return from her lastcruise during the war she left Port Royal Harbor,Jamaica, March 26, 1783, and arrived at New YorkApril 14. Note 41, Page 86 Henry Nicholls commanded in the West Indies the197-ton cutter Barracouta, fourteen guns, twelve swiv-els, sixty men, which was bought in 1782 and paid offin March, 1783. Toward the close of the year he wasin command of the 14-gun cutter Echo, in the New-foundland Squadron of Vice-Admiral John Campbell. :38 3 %
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Commissioned a captain December i, 1788, he com-manded in 1791 the Formidable, ninety-eight guns,flag-ship of the Hon. J. L. Gower, rear-admiral of theWhite, and in the Royal Sovereign, no guns, theflag-ship of Thomas Graves, Esq., admiral of the Blue,he was in the fight of June i, 1794, off Ushant, and wassubsequently presented with a gold medal. Note 42, Page 88 The author of the memoir, having returned to hisBoston home in the spring of 1783, sailed throughoutthe summer as mate of a brig bound for Ocoa on thesouth coast of Santo Domingo. As he did not like thecaptain, a Frenchman, he remained for a timeon the island and returned during the winteron a small schooner. After working for afew weeks for his father, a young friend, Mr.Samuel Richards (who had served an apprentice-ship in Edward Tuckermans bakery and was sellingknickknacks, gingerbread, etc., in the town), proposedthat if he should buy a small fishing schooner and loadher with a cargo of Yankee notions. Greenwood mightnav

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