UkLPR, Adm. 1/240. Docketed: “List of Vessels taken/between the 3d Marh. and/21st June. 1778./No. 8/In Sir Peter Parkers Letter/Dated 21st. June 1778.”
1. H.M. frigate Glasgow, Capt. Thomas Pasley, commander.
2. Sloop Abigail was captured on 28 Feb. off Tiburon Peninsula, Saint-Domingue. See Journal of H.M.S. Glasgow, 28 Feb. 1778, NDAR 11: 469.
3. See Journal of H.M. frigate Glasgow, Capt. Thomas Pasley, 9 Mar. 1778, NDAR 11: 562.
4. That is, Great Inagua I., Bahamas.
5. H.M. frigate Æolus, Capt. Christopher Atkins, commander.
6. H.M. sloop Stork, Lt. Francis L’Montais, commander.
7. That is, Môle Saint-Nicolas, Saint-Domingue.
8. H.M. frigate Niger, Capt. Robert Lambert, commander.
9. Schooner Sukey was captured off Montecristi, Spanish Santo Domingo. See Journal of H.M.S. Niger, 14 Mar. 1778, NDAR 11: 646.
10. H.M. ship-rigged sloop-of-war Hornet, Comdr. Robert Haswell, commander.
11. Long Island is one of the Bahama Islands, southwest of San Salvador.
12. Sloop Dove was captured after the crew ran it ashore near Monticristi while on a voyage from Newburyport, Mass., to Cape François. In addition to lumber and fish, Dove was carrying spermaceti candles. See Journal of H.M.S. Niger, 18 Mar. 1778, NDAR 11: 708.
13. H.M. frigate Lowestoffe, Capt. William Locker, commander.
14. H.M. frigate Southampton, Capt. William Garnier, commander.
15. That is, Newburyport, Mass.
16. H.M. armed sloop Racehorse, Lt. James M’Namara, commander.
17. H.M. frigate Winchelsea, Capt. Nathaniel Bateman, commander.
18. H.M. brig-rigged sloop-of-war Badger, Lt. Michael J. Everitt, commander.
19. H.M. frigate Hind, Capt. Charles Hope, commander.
20. The “x” is used to indicate that the list is misordered and that the line beginning with the second “x” should be entered at this point. The asterisks that appear below serve the same function.
21. H.M. sloop Porcupine, Comdr. Thomas Cadogan, commander.
22. H.M. frigate Active, Capt. William Williams, commander.
23. H.M.S. Bristol, Capt. Toby Caulfield, commander.
24. Probably, Edenton, N.C.