Resolution was a small American schooner built in the Marquesas Islands in 1793 as a tender for the maritime fur trade ship Jefferson.

The wooden frame for Resolution's hull was prefabricated in Boston in 1790 and transported to the Pacific Ocean aboard the fur trading vessel Jefferson in a voyage commencing in November 1791.

After a year at sea, Jefferson anchored in Resolution Bay on Santa Christina Island in the Marquesas shortly before Christmas in 1792.

[1][a] Her captain Josiah Roberts ordered the frame to be unloaded and built into a small schooner that he named Resolution in honour of the bay in which it was assembled.

Sea trials showed that she sailed well and fast, and would be capable of making the voyage from the Marquesas to the North American mainland.