They renamed her Liverpool Packet, although she sometimes bore the nickname Black Joke, the name of several 18th century slave ships.

At first her owners used the small and fast schooner as a packet ship carrying mail and passengers between Halifax and Liverpool, Nova Scotia.

His strategy was to lie in wait off Cape Cod, snapping up American ships headed to Boston or New York.

On 10 June the privateer schooner Thomas of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Captain Shaw, master, mounting twelve guns and manned with a crew of one hundred men, encountered Packet.

Under this name and under the command of Captain John Perkins, she had a short, unsuccessful career failing to capture a single prize for the Americans.

At the time, the privateer schooner was armed with five guns, carried a crew of 45, and had sailed from Portsmouth the previous day.

The recaptured schooner was brought into Halifax where her original owners repurchased her and restored the name of Liverpool Packet.

However, the United States did not sign the treaty because the Americans saw their large merchant marine as a potential source of privateers in case of war.