"charles s brack jr" <jitsu@gru.net> wrote: >The British ship "Margaretta" was reportedly engaged and captured by locals >in what is now Maine June 12, 1775 and was supposedly the first Naval action >of the war. > >Is there a list of the indivduals or militia units involved? Some names are mentioned in the excellent account on Ed's wonderful http://americanrevolution.org/nav1.html site. [The Margaretta is a ways down on the page-- use your browser's search function to jump right to it] Jim

There's also a brief discussion in Lossing, but not much detail. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~wcarr1/Lossing1/Chap56.html Bill Carr Town of Malta Saratoga County, NY Lossing's Field Books of the Revolution and War of 1812 at http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~wcarr1/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Elbrecht" <jelbrech@nycap.rr.com> To: <AMERICAN-REVOLUTION-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 9:46 AM Subject: Re: [A-REV] Capture of British Ship "Margaretta" June 12, 1775 > "charles s brack jr" <jitsu@gru.net> wrote: > > >The British ship "Margaretta" was reportedly engaged and captured by locals > >in what is now Maine June 12, 1775 and was supposedly the first Naval action > >of the war. > > > >Is there a list of the indivduals or militia units involved? > > Some names are mentioned in the excellent account on Ed's wonderful > http://americanrevolution.org/nav1.html site. > > [The Margaretta is a ways down on the page-- use your browser's search > function to jump right to it] > > Jim > > > ==== AMERICAN-REVOLUTION Mailing List ==== > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >