January 1776
Tybey Light house NW 4 Leagues
[Friday] 12
AM very foggy, the Elizabeth Brig lost our Kedge Anchor & hauser at 8 AM weighd & made sail under double Reef Topsails. at 9 fired 4 Swivel Guns P Signal & Tack'd at 11 Wore Ship & came to an Anchor with the best bowr in 7 fm water Veer'd to ⅓ of a Cable First pt Calm & foggy Middle fresh breezes & Cloudy Latter little wind & foggy with thick drizling rain P M Veer'd to ¼ a Cable
[Saturday] 13
AM the Elizabeth Brig drove out to Sea by a Southerly Current Little wind & Cloudy with drizling rain at 4 PM lost Sight of the Polly Schooner suppos'd to be drove to Sea by a Southerly Current at 5 Tybey Lighthouse NBW ¾ Wt 4 or 5 Leagues
[Sunday] 14
First & Middle pt Little wind & Cloudy with Latter Do with a thick fogg
[Monday] 15
At 2 AM Anchored here his Maj's Ships the Syron, Raven & Raven's Prize 2 the Polly Joyned Company. First & middle pt little wind and foggy with hard rain Latter mode & Cloudy with drizling rain
[Tuesday] 16
at 9 AM weigh'd & came to Sail in Co with the Syron, Raven, Cherokee, Sandwich Packet, Polly Schooner & Raven's Prize at 10 Tybey Light house NWBW½ W 6 or 7 Miles at Noon in Co as before First pt mode & Cloudy middle & latter hard gales & Clear Empd working in over Tybey Barr ½ past 4 P M Anchor'd with the small Bowr in 4 fm water Veered to ½, a Cable the lighthouse S B W ½ a Mile in Co as before at 5 the Raven got a ground and made Signal of Distress, and we Sent our Boat to Assist them
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/968.
2. The ship Rittenhouse, Ambrose Bartlett, master, Messrs. York and Potts, owners, from Philadelphia for Lisbon, in ballast and with £2000 hard money, taken December 28, 1775 off the coast of Virginia.