Conquest I (Schooner)
1812-1815
The name source for the first Conquest is not recorded, the name source for the second Conquest is that of a general word classification.
I
(Schooner: tonnage 82, armament 3 guns)
The merchant ship Genesee Packet -- purchased on 8 October 1812 at Oswego, N.Y., for service on Lake Ontario under Commodore Isaac Chauncey -- was renamed Conquest by 5 November, and, commanded by Lt. Jesse D. Elliott, cruised on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812, taking part in the attacks on Kingston on 9 December 1812; York on 27 April 1813; and Fort George on 27 May 1813. She joined in the engagements with the British squadron of 7 to 11 August, 11 and 28 September 1813.
Laid up at Sacketts Harbor, N.Y., at the end of hostilities, she was sold there in May 1815.
