June 1778 Friday 5
Pidgeon Hill [Mass.] WSW 5 Lgs:
Cape Ann W½N 6 Lgs:
Do [Mode & Cloudy] with Intermix'd Foggs at 2 PM saw 2 Sail to the Northd gave chace & came up with them, found them to be a Sloop1 & Schooner loaden with Wood bound to Boston took the Sloop in Tow & let the Schooner proceed at 7 In 1st. Reef Topsls. heard the Report of Several Guns in the NE Quartr. at 8 Pidgeon Hill WBN 4 Lgs:
D, UkLPR, Adm. 51/118, part 3, fols. 112–13.
1. Sloop Dolphin, master unknown, 80 tons burthen, manned by a crew of 5 seamen, owned by P. and S. Hatch of Nantucket, sent into Halifax. Howe's Prize List, 30 Oct. 1778, UkLPR, Adm. 1/488, fols. 484–85; Gambier's Prize List, 20 Dec. 1778, The London Gazette, 2–6 Feb. 1779.
