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Letters of Delegates to Congress: Volume 13 June 1, 1779 - September 30, 1779, Marine Committee to Samuel Nicholson .
Sir (1) June 12th 1779 The frigate Deane which you command being now ready for Sea, you are hereby directed to proceed with her on a Cruize on this coast from the Latitude of 40 to 35 degrees, and to take, burn, sink or destroy as many of the enemies Ships or vessels of every kind as may be in your power. The Prizes you will order into the nearest Ports addressed to the Continental Agents in those Ports. As we have received intelligence that a number of the enemys Privateers is cruizing to the Southward near the Latitude of 36 in expectation of intercepting the Merchant vessels bound from the West Indies to Chesapeake Bay and this Port, you are to use your endeavours to frustrate the Designs of our enemies, by Capturing or destroying as many of those Privateers as may be in your power and by Affording every aid and assistance to the inward bound vessels particularly the Brigantine Baltimore Captain Read which is loadened with Continental stores and dayly expected. As the Object of this Cruize is to take or destroy the enemies Privateers or small Ships of war and to give every aid and Assistance to the Merchantmen, you are to confine yourself Strictly to the Latitudes above and to such Longitudes as are best calculated to answer that purpose, but if from circumstances it should happen that the public service necessarily requires you to exceed those Limits, then you are at liberty to do it.
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1. The frigate Deane , of 30 guns, was a French built ship and was later renamed the ( Hague ).
2. Between February 1, 1779-May31, 1779, the Deane was some where in the Delaware.
3. The Massachusetts Court of Admiralty for the Middle District had awarded the armed ship of war Viper and her cargo both to Continental agent John Bradford and to Samuel Nicholson, commander of the Continental frigate Deane. Capt. Nicholson had captured the Viper on January 24, 1779, off the Massachusetts coast and Bradford had libeled the ship and cargo on behalf of Nicholson and the Continent, claiming that the ship, cargo, and "appurtances" should be distributed to "the captors and others concerned therein." Martin Brimmer, a Boston merchant, filed a second libel on behalf of Nicholson and his crew, however, claiming that the ship, cargo, and "appurtances" should be distributed "among the captors only." In their libels both Bradford and Brimmer cited unspecified congressional resolves. Under a congressional resolve of October 30, 1776, concerning the division of prizes, the captain and crew of Continental armed vessels were entitled to the entire value of "all ships and vessels" in case of the capture of armed vessels of war, rather than the customary one-half for merchantmen or other unarmed-vessels. The resolve did not mention the cargo and "appurtances," however. When the Massachusetts court awarded the ship and cargo to Bradford on June 28, 1779, to be divided between the captors and "others concerned therein," i.e., the Continental government, Brimmer appealed on behalf of captain and crew to Congress, where on July 24, 1779, the case was referred to the Committee on Appeals. In this decree the committee upheld the Massachusetts court decision.
4. In May of 1779, was off the cost of Georgia.
5. In may 20, 1779, the Deane had arrived from Martinico.
6. The Frigate Deane would have been in Massachusetts a number of times from November 1, 1779-March 31, 1780.
7. The Continental frigate Deane was renamed The Hague about the end of July 1782.
8. Elisha Hinman was commissioned a Captain August 20, 1776.
9. At his June court-martial Capt. Thomas Thompson was found guilty of failing to bring the Raleigh to the assistance of the Alfred during its capture on March 9, whereas the conduct of the Alfred's captain Elisha Hinman was vindicated by a court-martial in February 1779.
10. In a September 23, 1779, letter to the committee, the board had recommended that Capt. Elisha Hinman remain in command of the Trumbull.
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