Diary of Dr. Thomas Moffat, December 16, 1775

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[Boston] Decr 16th embarkd In the Tartar Ship of war Captn Meadows to whom I was recommended by the admiral² ー Captn Meadows distinguishd me with every civility favour and kindness. Captn Harris a wounded Officer of Earl Purcys Regt was also a Passenger of the Cab[i]n we passed time most agreably in Conversation and reading without Cards or Gaming.

1. Thomas Moffat's Diary, July 30, 1775 to October 8, 1777, LC. Moffat was a notorious Rhode Island tory. Pinkney's Virginia Gazette of December 9, 1775, carried a dispatch from Providence dated November 16: "An act has passed the house, sequestering the estates of Thomas Hutchinson, esquire, late governor of the Massachusetts Bay, Gilbert Deblois, Doctor Thomas Moffat, Samuel Sewall, George Rome, Jahleel and Benjamin Brenton, and several other estates within this colony, the owners of which are avowed enemies to the liberties of America."

2. H.M. Sloop Tartar sailed from Boston for England, December 16, 1775 and arrived at Spithead, January 6, 1776. PRO, Admiralty 51/972.

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1775 December 16

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