[Block Island WBS about 4 Leagues.]¹

Fresh Breezes and small Rain at 4 AM sounded 30 fathom Water Brown Oeoze.

[Block Island WBS about 4 Leagues.]

D^o. W^r: at 1 PM a Sail in sight to Windward sent the Tender² in Chace of her tacked at 3 & at ½ p^t 5 saw the Tender to Leeward with a Sloop in C^o bore down and Spoke the Tender with the above Sloop from N^o. Carlolina with Naval Stores ½ P^t 8 bore away and hove too for the Sloop & her Prize, half past 10 the Tender set fire to the Prize by Order.