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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., Old ships and ship-building days of Medford. (search)
ory of American Privateers in the War of 1812. The three letters-of-marque delivered their orders to the merchant vessels to remain until peace was declared. They then loaded with rich cargoes and dropped down river from Whampoa on a dark night, the 18th of January, 1815. They passed two British men-of-war and about twenty armed East Indiamen, which fired on them by the aid of blue lights. Keeping together on the voyage home, they arrived at Boston after peace was declared, on May 3 and 4, 1815, and sold their cargoes at high prices. Another privateer, the Reindeer, was built by Calvin Turner for Benjamin Rich and others in 1814. On April 15, 1815, a libel was brought in the United States court at Boston by Nathaniel Snow and others against sundry goods, wares and merchandise taken from the brig Daphne, seized as prize on or about the 7th day of January, and took from her 12 bags of coffee, 16 bags of cloves, 32 leopard skins, a lot of goat skins, one lion skin, 5 box