February 19th
Captured the British government schooner Harriet Elizabeth, laden with coffee, etc. From Demerara to Barbadoes, ordered in. Island of Montserrat bearing e. n. e. distance 8 leagues. Captured the American schooner Ann Maria of Boston; she had been to Bermuda and sold a cargo of flour; had been captured by HBM brig Elipse, on her passage to St. Barts; took out the prize crew, consisting of 1 midshipman and 5 men, and burnt her.

From the journal of the Chasseur, excerpted in Baltimore American, June 2, 1814. Maryland Historical Society.

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