June 1775 Sunday 25
At Single Anchor House Isle Road [Falmouth]
at 7 A M found the Longboat her sails oars masts rigging &c and Some Arms & Ammunition taken away at 11 weighed & came to Sail in Convoy Minerva Confined John Stuart for being an accomplice with the 3 deserters2
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/885.
2. Ibid., Stuart subsequently was acquitted at a court martial in Boston.
