June 1777 Saturday 14th
Nantucket Sth Shoal NE½E Dist 19 Leags 4 [AM] Wore Ship 6 Strong Gales & Cloudy 8 Handed the Fore & Mizn TSails 10 Saw a sail in the SEt Quarter made sail & Give Chace 12 in Chace. Fresh Gales & Clear Nantucket Sth Shoal N 22° Wt Dist 24 Leagues ½ past 1 [PM] Shorten'd sail & spoke the chace a Schooner from Virginia bound to boston,2 sent a Petty Officer and 6 men on board to take charge of her in 2d Reef TSails 6 Light Airs & Clear Prize in Company 8 Fired 2 swivells shotted at the Prize to speake Her.
1. PRO, Admiralty 52/2079.
2. Sally, Moses Lewis, master, with flour, sent to Rhode Island, Howe's Prize List, October 24, 1777, PRO, Admiralty 1/488, 68.
