New-York, April 28
[Last Monday] the Mermaid Frigate arrived here from the WestIndies: Off the Coast of Virginia she fell in with and took a fine large Brig from Philadelphia, loaded with about 1400 barrels of Flour, 1 &c.
A few Days after the Mermaid destroyed a Rebel Privateer Schooner at Egg-Harbour upon the Coast of New-Jersey.2
1. Escape, Benjamin Wickes, master, Howe's Prize List, May 22, 1777, London Cazette, July 8 to July 12, 1777.
2. Connecticut sloop Lyon, Timothy Shaler, which had previously taken one vessel, the Experiment, laden with coal, and had run ashore and destroyed another, the Hazard, with a cargo of oats. Lyon was not destroyed as the newspaper stated, but was sent into New York after her capture on April 19, along with the Experiment which had been recaptured. The Lyon was libeled against in Vice Admiralty Court on November 10, 1777 by Captain James Hawker, H.M.S. Mermaid, PRO, HCA 49/93, 112.