February [1777] Sunday 16th
St Bartholomews bore WbS 94 Leagues Do Wr [Fresh breezes and cloudy] ½ past Noon saw a Sail to the Northward standing toward us Gave Chace At 8 TKd Ship at 10 fired 2 Six pounders Shotted to bring too the Chace she proved to be a Ship from Piscataqua in No America bound to St Eustatia shifted the Men sent a Midshipman & 13 hands on board her, in boarding her lost a Cutless overboard.2
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/711.
2. "A Ship from Piscataqua, formerly the Susanna, Fraser, is sent into Antigua by the Portland Man of War," Public Advertiser, London, April 30, 1777.
