Category Archives: Frigate Boston

The following partial list of 59 Officers and Crew of the frigate Boston is compiled from the “Statement of claims which have been adjusted and allowed at the Treasury Department…on the 27th of March 1792” and published beginning page 387 … Continue reading →

List of ninety-five of the frigate Boston’s crew taken at Charleston onboard HMS Roebuck on 12 May 1780 as recorded in Roebuck’s Muster Book (ADM36/8643) transcribed by Joseph Ross in April 2023. Many thanks to Todd Braisted of The Online … Continue reading →

The following list, dated January 1778 and granting power of attorney as prize agent to Major Richard Reed begins “We the Subscribers, officer as well as Seaman belonging to the Ship Boston Commanded by Samuel Tucker, Esq.,” is transcribed from two … Continue reading →

The Alphabetical List of Officers and Men of the Frigate Boston (1777) is derived from the list that appears on pages 41-45 of Gardner Weld Allen’s publication “Captain Hector McNeill of the Continental Navy” (1922). Apparently this list was amongst the collection of papers belonging to the Hon. Charles W. Gray, of Portsmouth, NH. These papers were heirlooms in the McNeill family, descending through his youngest daughter. Continue reading →