I represent Henry Fox. I was a sailor (Seaman) on HMS Mentor. I was from Lambeth, Surrey, England. The Mentor was a sloop built in Maryland in 1778. It spent between April 1780 and May 1781 – the height of Spanish hostilities – patrolling the waters near Pensacola, and at times our crew would go ashore to help the army shore up defenses. Sometimes we’d cruise out to take Spanish prizes. In March of 1781, pressure was building from the Spanish at Pensacola and the Mentor was starting to send men ashore to help with the defenses there, there being little we could do to help from the bay. In the log of HMS Mentor for March 16, 1781, Captain Deans wrote “Departed this life, Henry Fox, seaman.” No other details were given.
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