Decembr 1775 Friday 22d In Dover Peer
Remarks &a Speedwell Sloop Fresh gales and fair wr seased and detain'd the Hawke brigg Thos Tingey Mastr belonging to Carolina from Amsterdam for the Island of St Thomases in the Wt Indias. 2
Saturdy 23d
Fresh gales and fair wr Came into the peer and made fast his Majs Cutter Wells, recd from On board her Lieut Cook & the people who Navigated the Anna Catherina to Portsmouth 3
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/918.
2. This is the earliest mention in the American Revolution of Captain Thomas Tingey, who was later, on September 3, 1798, commissioned a captain in the United States Navy.
3. The Wells had escorted the Anna Catherina to Portsmouth on December 15, 1775, after the vessel had been liberated; Speedwell's journal, PRO, Admiralty 51/918.
