November 1775 Sunday 26th
Marshfield Land SW ½ W, 6 or 7 Leags at ½ past [1 A.M.] made sail, at ½ past 3 Excessive hard Squalls wore & handed F Topl, at 6 little wind reeft the mainsail; at 9 sett the Topl at 10: saw a ship on fire Bearing about WSWd2 several sail in sight; at Noon bore a way; Squall with snow, at 2 [P.M.] handed the Topsails, and hawld the wind Ballanc'd Mizen; Lost the Logg & one Line,
1. PRO, Admiralty 52/1884.
2. The transport Jupiter, from Nova Scotia.
