Octr 1775 Thursday 19
at 8 A M fresh Breezes & rain at 10 do Sighted our Anchor & went farther up Hogg Island Road As did all the rest in Company the Symmetry, Halifax, Spitfire, with two Schooners & two Sloops Prizes2 the fire Still Continues raging in the Town [P.M.] Fresh breezes with thick rainy Wear
1. PRO, Admiralty 52/1637.
2. None of these prizes was listed by Admiral Graves, or his successor, Admiral Molyneux Shuldham. The Canceaux's log states that the two sloops were missing in heavy gales off Cape Ann on October 25, but indicates that the two schooners, the one taken by the Halifax on October 11, and the other salvaged from Falmouth harbor, safely reached Nantasket road.