October Saturday 7
Moored at Annapolis Royal [Nova Scotia] AM fir'd a 9 pr & made the Signal for Weighg at ½ past Weigd & Came to Sail in Campy wth 6 sail of transports & Sloop Tartar At Noon Employd Working out of the Gutt.2
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/972.
2. Ibid., the Tartar was giving the convoy an escort toward Boston, and parted with the transports and Tartar sloop on October 10, 1775.