Diary of Simeon Perkins, June 5, 1778

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Fryday, June 5th, [Liverpool, Nova Scotia]—Rains and foggy. The Privateer still remains at ye wreck,¹ and I understand towards night, that Seth Freeman and John Kinney are entered on board her. She has thrown out her ballast, and is loading with iron.² I understand it is the same Privateer that carried Ebenezer Herrington to New England.

Perkins, Diary, p. 203.

1. The “wreck" was the French ship Duc de Choiseul. It was forced aground in Liverpool harbor by H.M. frigate Blonde, Capt. John Milligan, in April 1778. The “Privateer" was Massachusetts privateer sloop Fox, Jonathan Tuksbery, commander.

2. That is, Fox was replacing its ballast, presumably stones, with iron taken from Duc de Choiseul. In his entry of 6 June, Perkins noted that crewmen from Fox were taking "some guns and other things out of ye wreck."

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1778 June 5

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American Theater, June 1 to August 15, 1778

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