Decr 1775 Thursday 28
Moored in Nantasket Road Shared 323£ amongst the Captain Officers & Ships Company being due for the Prize Sally & Harlequin Sloop sold here 2
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/600.
2. The Sally sloop, with a cargo of wood, from Penobscot to Marblehead, and the Harlequin sloop, with a cargo of onions, cheese and potatoes, from Newport for Carolina. Graves's Conduct, Prize List, II, 36-38, BM. The master's log for May 8, 1775, reads: "AM seized the Sally Sloop shee Not Comply with the Act of Parlement sent a Mate and two Men on bd hir," PRO, Admiralty 52/1866. For information regarding the capture of the Harlequin see the journal of H.M.S. Mercury, September 17, 1775, Volume 2, 131.
