July 1778
Saturday 18TH
Tortola S 13°: 21' Et. diste. 385 Leags.
Do Wear: [Light Breezs: and Mod:] with some rain, at 4 AM out Do: [Topsls:] at 5 Saw a Sail to the No:erd bore away [to] speak her Sett Steering sails. Carried away the Main Topgallt: steering sail Boom, Fir'd 2 Guns shotted to bring her too.—1
New York N 48°: 19' 82 Leags.
Modte: and Cloudy, at 1 PM spoke the chace from Virginia bound to Bourdeaux, Sent an Officer & Men to take charge of her, Brot: too [&] shifted the Men ½ past 2 made sail Prize in Coy.
D, UkLPR, Adm. 52/1953, part 6, fol. 226.
1. Brig Sally Van, Thomas Dean, master, George Rudulph of Virginia, owner, carrying a cargo of tobacco and staves; sent to New York. Howe's Prize List, 30 Oct. 1778, UkLPR, Adm. 1/488, fols. 487–88; The London Gazette, 2 Feb. to 6 Feb. 1779.
