[At Plymouth]
Friday, the 1st of December. Fair weather still. Same Wind. At about eleven o'clock in the morning, we saw five sails. We sent our longboat with seven armed men to investigate. They have not come back. It is now six o'clock in the evening. We expect them tonight.2
1. Manvide's Journal, PRO, Admiralty 1/485.
2. The Journal ended at this point. The Washington sailed on her disastrous cruise on December 3, 1775.
