Novr 1775 Monday 27
Cape Ann W[?]5 leags spoke the Nancy Brig with Ordnance Stores Ordered her to keep Company Do took her under Convoy Fresh Breezes & Squally at 2 pm fir[e]d 2 Guns and made the Signal for Brig to Windward to bear up and run out she did not mind at ΒΌ past repeated the signal but to no purpose2
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/600.
2. See journal of the Cerberus, November 10, 1775. Graves' letter to Stephens of December 28, 1775 adds that "the Mercury fell in with her, and she also failed in the Attempt to bring her to Boston:"
