Octr 1775 Wednesday 11
Cape Elisabeth wood Island NW½ W 3 or 4 Leagus at 1 A M Saw a Sail in the NE qr at 2 Saw ½ way rock bearg Wt 2 miles at 3 modr and Cloudy Tkd at 4 hove too with the head Sails to the mast at 5 Made Sail at 8 Cape Ann Light House NEbN 3 miles at 9 sitt Studding Sails Saw a Schoon to the Eterd Standing under the Cape made the Halifax2 Sigl to Chace to the NE at 10 She brought too the chace She Proved a schooner with Salt all her People had Quite her Halbut Point SW 4 miles in Compeny as before fresh breezes and fair Wear at 4 [P.M.] in the 2d Reefs Topsails at Boer Island WNW 3 or 4 Leagus at 9 fresh breezes with thunder and Lightning all Round ship head to the Soerd
1. PRO, Admiralty 52/1637.
2. The Halifax was one of the squadron under Lieutenant Henry Mowat, consisting of the Canceaux, armed transport Symmetry, armed sloop Spitfire, and brig Halifax. She had sailed from Boston on October 9, 1775. See Graves's Narrative, October 6 and 8, BM.
