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FAIR AMERICAN 1776

Fair American was a small American sailing vessel described variously as a schooner or sloop or brig. The 14-gun privateer was  commanded by Captain Charles Morgan, having a crew of eighty men. Morgan was granted a privateer Commission by Governor of South Carolina in November, 1776.

In June, 1777 Fair American and her consort conducted a raid on the western end of the island of Bermuda. The two brigs entered Western Harbor and were taken under fire from the fort. Fair American returned a broadside. A landing party captured the fort, demolished the embrasures, and took eight privately owned cannons away.

Meanwhile, sloop Chester carrying merchandises sailed from the Bay of Honduras bound to Rotterdam and stopped by Bermuda for water and provisions. She was immediately stopped by Fair American. Morgan studied Chester’s papers. She was Dutch owned, but one of the owners was a merchant residing in London. Chester was ordered to Charlestown and arrived on June 22.

In July, Fair American stumbled across a British Jamaica convoy of eighty sail bound for England, escorted by HM Frigate Boreas and HM Sloop Hornet. Boreas chased Fair American but Morgan eluded her.

Fair American remained in port until December 1777 to get prepared for the Randolph expedition. Her owners proposed that she be taken into the South Carolina Navy for this expedition. She was accepted by the President and Privy Council on 17 December 1777. Fair American remained in South Carolina service until about May 1778, when she resumed her privateer career, making voyages to the West Indies.

In late November 1778, Fair American sailed with a few other vessels, bound for Charlestown. On December 21, Morgan encountered a schooner, a “long low Virginia built vessel." When he fired a broadside at her she broke off. Morgan said it took nearly fifty shots to drive her off.  “He thinks, if she is not intercepted or driven off the coast, she may do much mischief, as she must have a daring crew to attempt a vessel of the force and appearance of his brig.”

By the following April, in 1779, Morgan was commanding the schooner Foy. On October 4th 1782, the Fair American was captured by the British.

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