June 1778 Thursday 11
Do: [Cape Cod] SSW 64 Ms.
Am at 4 Saw a sail EnE, mad[e] sail & Chaced at 6 Brought too the Chace a Brig from Tenereef Bound to Boston1 ½ pt. made sail and Chaced Sent the Brig to New York—we draw on the Chace a Brigg Privateer.—
Montinico Island2 No: 12 Miles—
Moderate Breezes Still in Chace, Saw another Brig NbW She made Sail from us, we Continued the Chace at 2 the Land nbW 25 Miles we Come up with the Chace our Shott goes over her. we find the Chace to be the franklin privateer3 of 18 Guns full of Oars ½ pt: 6 the Land 2 Miles Distance, the Wind Coming off we hauled down our Small Sails, the Chace Run between 2 small Islands we followed her into ¼ 3 fathoms Then Tacked and Stood out between the Rocks and breakers
D, UkLPR, Adm. 52/1964, fol. 129.
1. Brig Neptune, Joseph Costers, master, bound for Boston from Tenerife, Canary Is., with a cargo of wine. According to a note in Howe's Prize List, it was "retaken by the Rebels." Howe's Prize List, 30 Oct. 1778, UkLPR, Adm. 1/488, fol. 486.
2. That is, Matinicus I., Me.
3. Brigantine Franklin was a Massachusetts privateer, Capt. Thomas Connoly. It carried 18 guns and 100 men. M-Ar, Revolutionary Rolls, vol. 5, pp. 233, 236. Franklin escaped capture by Experiment.
