The managing owner was, Joseph Grey, the son in law of the commissioner of the Halifax Naval Yard where the schooner was likely built.

[3] Weather permitting, the packet sailed every eight days between Halifax and Boston and made 23 round trips during her merchant career.

In July 1768, the Nova Scotia Packet was chartered by Commodore Samuel Hood in Halifax to take dispatches to Portsmouth, England.

[7] After an active career on the coast on North America she was wrecked in a gale at 3 A.M. 15 February 1775 at Foster Island near Machias, Maine.

[11] The wreck played a role in the Battle of Machias later that year, when Admiral Samuel Graves ordered that her guns be recovered.