Remarks on Wensday [Thursday] Febuary 20 — 1777
At 7 A M, Saw Cape Cod from out topmast head Bearing NW Dist 7 Leags at 11. AM, Saw the Island of Nantucket Bearg WSW. 7 Legs Dist Struck into the SE, side of the Island for to beat to the harbour.
At 1 p. M, Struck on a Shoal & by the Violence of the wheather was Obligd to bare Away. —
Our men Was Greatly F earg & Frost bitten
Nothing more Remarkable this day No Lttd by Obsn
First part of these 24 hours fresh gale and a large Sea
At 3, PM The Island of Nantucket bore WNW Dist 7 Legs The South Shoal of Nantucket bore SSWt Dist 3 Legs A fresh gail our men being Almost beat out — at 5 the gail Still Increasing tis thought by all the Officers on board, that it was Impossible to Stand the Course being So lumberd With Ice & the most of our people badly Froze twas thought proper by the Officers to bare away for Virginia