John Paul Jones was an officer on the Alfred in 1776 when the ship attacked New Providence in the Bahamas capturing a number of cannon and a supply of gunpowder. When the building of Fort Phoenix in Fairhaven, MA, was completed in 1777 it was outfitted with some of the captured guns. This one survived a British raid on the harbor in 1778, when the fort was captured. It is now referred to as the "John Paul Jones cannon."
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