1. The chase had begun at 11 P.M. on 3 July. Ibid. 

2. Ship Providence, Richard Stevens, master, was a Loyalist vessel. UkLPR, H.C.A. 32/431/11; H.C.A. 49/94, pp. 172, 192. Louisa Susannah Wells, daughter of a prominent Charleston loyalist exile, was a passenger in Providence and left a journal of the voyage that included an account of the capture. According to Wells, the ship's company were concerned that the pursuing ship was American or French, and therefore tried to outrun their pursuer. Wells reports: "we were within hail of the other ship, when a Gun was fired to bring to, it flashed, a second was fired, and the ball went through our rigging. They then hailed us 'Whence from, where bound &c.' to which we answered without hesitation. They then hoisted out a boat, which was well manned to take us, as a prize. The boat passed under our stern, and as I was then sitting on one of the Lockers at the Cabin window I heard a voice cry out 'Get ropes ready'; at this moment a Volley of Musketry was poured on the deck from the Ship. The Shot whistled over the Passengers' heads, upon which they came below, not being yet willing to leave this world. The Man at the Pump was shot through the hat, upon which every sailor quitted the Deck and went under hatches, none but poor Stevens being left to combat a twenty gun ship, the people on board of which swearing at him for not laying to; however the Lieutenant, and his men in the boat, boarding us, soon relieved him from his solitude by taking him prisoner. . . . Our conqueror [Lieutenant Lock] soon sheathed his weapon, on seeing such a number of helpless Women and Children, but 'owned he was uneasy at coming below amongst so many people, still thinking us French.' Captain Stevens had been a great while in the Danish Service, and therefore spoke English like a Foreigner; and besides we had several French sailors on board. As soon as the Papers were got ready the Master and Owner [Mr Manson] accompanied the Lieutenant, in order to explain our situation to Captain Reid, but without success. This hungry Vulture guessed the value of our cargo, as coming from Carolina, and would hear nothing in our defence. He desired Mr Manson to particularise the contents of the Hold. 'Seven hundred Tierces of Rice, Seventy casks Indigo and seventeen Hogsheads Tobacco.' 'Seventy of the latter you mean.' 'No Sir' returned Mr Manson. 'It is no matter,' resumed this disgrace to the British Navy, 'I shall know when the Court of Admiralty shall condemn the Providence and Cargo as my lawful prize at New York.' Upon finding this, Mr Manson left the 'Rose' and returned to us, with his heart full of pride, indignation and resentment at being thus treated by the servants of that King for whom we all had suffered so much.” Louisa Susannah Wells, The Journal of a Voyage from Charlestown to London Undertaken during the American Revolution By a Daughter of an Eminent American Loyalist in the Year 1778 and Written from Memory Only in 1779 (New York: New York Historical Society, 1906; reprint ed., New York: Arno Press, 1968), pp. 6–8.

3. Lt. Walter Lock.