At Single Anchor Entce Cape Codd Harbor
at 3 A M Heard the report of Several Musquets to windward made the Signal to shorten sail at 7 Saw Pidgeon Hill N W b W five Leagues ー the two Sloop Prizes was missing lay too under the Mizzen & fore stay sail hauld Fore & Main Tack on board stood to the S W Strong Gales Saw a Ship of War to Sd standing to the Northd Strong Gales & Clear ½ past noon made Signal for all Cruise[r]s ½ past Do to bear away for Cape Cod Harbor at 3 Race point S E b E 6 miles at 4 Made Signal to anchor ½ past anchor'd 20 fm to the Sd of the Beach of the Harbor in Company Symmetry Halifax & Spitfire & two Schooner Prizes