Moor'd in Nantasket Road
AM do Wr bent the Sheet Cable & got Anchor over the side at ½ past 11 the light house fired 2 Guns and made a signal on which we Discover'd a boat belonging to the light house driveing out to Sea his Majts Schooner hinchinbroke Slipp'd & made sail after her, but could not pick her up, as She was seen to drive on Shore and the people taken by the rebels Came on board John Stebbins Pilot for Boston & took charge of the Ship. Fired Evening & Morning a Volley of small arms ー
at 3 PM Sent a party of marines to the lighthouse at 5 Struck yards & top masts

AM Mode & Clear Wr at 9 got up Yards and topmast & set the rigging up fore & aft a large Quantity of Ice drifting down with the tide makes it very dangerous Lying in Nantasket road at 10 Unmoor'd & hove into ½ a Cable Mr Christopher Mason 1st Lieut was appointed to Command the Nautilus pr Order of vice Adml Graves ー
Little Wind at 2 PM weigh'd & warp'd farther into the road to get out of the Ice at 4 the wind came to soward & made sail for Boston at 6 came too off Spectarcle Island in 7 fm Water & Veered to ½ Cable the Island S W ½ Mile the lighthouse E S E

at 8 AM weighd and made sail for Boston
at 9 Castle William Saluted with 13 Guns returned 13 More at 10 Saluted Vice Adml Graves with 13 Guns at 11 Came too in Boston Harbour in 6 fm water & veer'd to 1/3 of a Cable found riding here Vice Adml Graves in his Majs Ship Preston with his Majs Ships Lively Falcon Adventure Store Ship & Several transports & Victuallers. At Noon Weighed & Shifted our birth fired Evening and Morning a Volley of small Arms ー
Do Wr at 1 Came too in 6 fms veer'd & moor'd a Cable each way the best bower to the S E the small bower to the N W Long Wharf S S W distance off Shore one Cable.