July 1777 Saturday 26th
Cape Cod SWbW 2 or 3 Leagues at 4 AM made the Signal for seeing a Sail to the Eastward, out Reefs Top Sails set Top Gallt sails and Chaced her, Tkd saw a sail to the Soward, at 7 Cape Cod SbW 5 Leagues, at 10 sounded 40 faths fired Six twelve pounders at the Chace and brot her too, a Brig from Guadalupe with Molasses bound and belonging to Newberry2
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/650.
2. Mermaid, Abraham Edwards, master, Howe's Prize List, October 24, 1777, PRO, Admiralty 1/488,67.
