Snake in the Grass was a schooner launched in March 1804 at Saybrook on the Connecticut River.

She was sold to New York, sailed to Saint-Domingue, and fell prey to a French privateer.

Captain Richard Hayden built Snake in the Grass and quickly sold the schooner in May in New York, a procedure that he followed with several more ships.

Under the command of Captain James Mansfield, she sailed to Saint-Domingue, where a French privateer captured her without a shot being fired.

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