Jany [1777] Monday. 27
At Moorings in Halifax Harbour AM reeved some of the running rigging Dryd sails Captain Berkley 2 from the Scarboroughs Orders was Read whom supperseded Captain Mowatt [Henry Mowat] Caulkers Empd on Board. First & later parts Modr & fair Middle Modr Breezes & Cloudy with much Snow. Reeved the remainder of the running rigging
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/607.
2. "Capt Barclay of the Scarborough arriving from New York claimd a Senior title to the Milford as a preferable Ship and was appointed to her by Sir George Collier Accordingly. Captain Mowat was removed into the Scarborough." "A relation of the services in which Captain Henry Mowat of the Royal Navy was engaged in America, from 1759 to the end of the American War in 1782," Maine Historical Society Collections and Proceedings, 2nd series (Portland, 1891), 11,357.
