September 1777 Tuesday 9th
Nantucket Shoal N37°W Dist: 46 Leags AM fresh Gales & squally at 7 saw a Sail to the Eastd made Sail & gave Chace, at 10 fir'd several Shot & small arms at the Chace, she brought too, found her to be a Schooner Privateer, of 10 Guns & 50 Men from Cape Ann,2 took the Prisoners on board & put a Mid. & 8 Men on board her to take Charge, the Prizes in Company.
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/1017.
2. Warren, Captain Silas Howell, Howe's Prize List, October 30, 1778, PRO, Admiralty 1/488, 489-90. This Massachusetts privateer from. Gloucester was commissioned just six days before her capture, Mass.Arch., Revolutionary Rolls, VII, 320. She was condemned as a lawful prize in New York Vice Admiralty Court on November 3, 1777, PRO, High Court of Admiralty 49/93, 92.
