The following Prizes were sent in here within these few Days, viz. Sloop Savage, Nathaniel Atkin, Master, from Boston, for Carolina, loaded with Rum, Sugar, and Mohagony Plank; Schooner Smack, John Leighton, Master, from Boston, for Virginia, with the like Cargo; Schooner Friendship, Daniel Rhodes, from Cape Nichola Mole, for Philadelphia, with Rum and Molas.5es; a Sloop from Connecticut with Flaxseed, &c. The above were sent in by his Majesty's Ship Unicorn.1
A Bermuda Sloop 2 with 400 Barrels of Gunpowder and 150 Stands of Arms, and a Schooner with 45 Hogsheads of Rum, have been taken and sent in by his Majesty's Ship Phoenix.
1. All except the schooner Friendship which was taken by H.M.S. Roebuck, Howe's Prize List, May 22, 1777, London Gazette, July 8 to July 12, 1777.
2. Ibid., the Bermuda sloop was the Fly, James Wilson, master, from Martinique.