December 8, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/8/2011
MUMFORD, Giles, (?-1795) Revolutionary War veteran, New London merchant. On January 1,1777, he was commissioned a lieutenant in Col. Samuel B Webb's regiment, and was captured by the British with his commander. He resigned from the service May 27, 1779. Autograph Letter Signed, “Giles Mumford,” to Dudly Woodbridge, New London, December 8, 1781, 1pp. Mumford and Woodbridge were business partners and this letter concerns business matters. In part, “... the money I owe them on Acct. ... purchased for Brig Jay and which I have paid interest for two months ... Enclosed you have a small Bill against Sloop Lively which will be much obliged to forward me ...” Minor repaired splits. Connecticut Privateer Sloop Lively was commissioned on 27 March 1781 under Commander Edward Latham of Groton, Connecticut. She was listed as having a battery of fourteen guns and a crew of seventy men. Lively’s $20,000 bond was executed by Latham, and John Chenevard and James Church, both of Hartford, Connecticut. On April 15, 1781 Lively captured the 80-ton British schooner Seaflower, bound from New York. Lively sailed on her final cruise on July 9, 1781. She was off Montauk Point, where Latham fell in with the British Privateer Ship Goodrich (Stanton Hazzard), of twenty-four guns. Lively ran for it, but was driven ashore on Montauk Point and wrecked. The sails and rigging were salvaged.19 A part, at least, of the crew were captured and taken into New York, where they wound up in the prison ships
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