Local merchants purchased her and named her after Sir John Coape Sherbrooke, Governor of Nova Scotia.

New Orleans Packet, Harris, master, cleared New York for Lisbon on 25 July 1810,[1] but then instead stopped at Gibraltar where she unloaded part of her cargo.

[3] Sir John Sherbooke was commissioned on 27 November 1812 and carried ten guns and a crew of 30 men.

On 31 October she encountered an American privateer off Cape Maize while sailing the Windward Passage between Cuba and Haiti.

[5] Sir John Sherbrooke was able to hold the privateer off for some five hours until Robson suffered a severe wound that almost killed him.

The American privateer schooner Saucy Jack, again captained by John P. Chazal, out of Charleston, SC, had suffered 15 men wounded.