[10 July-1 August, Jamaica]
the Next day [10 July] we got into Montego bay and after we got in thay tuck me out and put me in Irons that wold way about 100 wait and cep me in for two Days and Nytes thay put me in the hole with Irons on he1 wold Not suffor me to stay upon deck nor pul the Irons of while I wors in the hole And then sent me a shore to gail thay tuck all my cloes from me and 2 Joes in harde money and 80 Dollors in paper mony I went a Shore with Nothing but a Short and a pare of trouses and An old pare of shoes and a old hat a few Days after thay set us all at our liberty I found an amarakan Mr Johnson who Invyted me to his hous and gave me a sute of Cloes I stade at his hous Until the 1th of August then I went a bord of a Sloope bound to Nuwyork2 I left John Buckland In the horspittol he had not got well of his lameness thair wors a Sloope that wors a Sloope thair bound to Rodesilland Capt Edmonson Commander Isrel Fox and John Buckland wair a going home in hor one Mr Hambotton made me a preson of a half joe which I gave half of It to Buckland and Fox I agread With Jonson to Let the two men to have anything thay wonted and I wold Sey him payd
This 1th of August 1778
Went on Bord of the Sloope Active John Underwod Capten as a hand to Doe my Duty to work the sloop to Nue York Jeams Taylor wors mait
two linglish seayman & 3 amarekans that wors prisonors teakon by Capt Hill in the Royel george3 thair naymes are Artemos White Aquilla Ramsdol Davd Clark who ware put a bord By Capt hill as prisnors to work the vessel to Nueyork4 thare wors three Jentolmen passongers5 and two Negroes which made 13 of us all
August 1th we jind the lunnon fleat under Convoy of the Glasssco a 20 gun ship and two sloopes of wor6 wee cap Comye with them until wee got into the Ltt 34
D, DLC, Frederick Law Olmsted papers, 1777–1952, Gideon Olmsted Journal, Facsimile, with modernized transcription, published as The Journal of Gideon Olmsted.
1. That is, Lt. Robert Hibbs of H.M. armed brigantine Lowestoffe's Prize.
2. The sloop Active, commanded by John Underwood and bound from Montego Bay to New York, carried "a cargo of rum, coffee, pimento, &c." The Whole Proceedings in the Case of Olmsted and Others versus Rittenhouse's Executrices, As Contained in Documents on Record in the Courts of the United States and Pennsylvania; Together with the Act of the Legislature of the State of Pennsylvania and Other Matters in Relation to this Important Subject, collected and arranged by Richard Peters Jr. (Philadelphia: William P. Farrand and Co., 1809), p. 16.
3. Likely the privateer Royal George which was of 400 tons burthen, armed with 20 carriage guns of 6 and 9 pounds, and commanded by Samuel Hill. UkLR, H.C.A. 26/61, fol. 88.
4. That is, Artemas White, Aquila Rumsdale, and David Clarke. The Whole Proceedings in the Case of Olmsted and Others..., p. 8.
5. The three passengers were Andrew Anderson, James Holmes, and Robert Jackson. Ibid., p. 9
6. H.M. frigate Glasgow, Capt. Thomas Pasley, and H.M. sloop Cameleon, Comdr. John L. Douglas, escorted trade bound to Europe. H.M. sloop Hornet, Comdr. Robert Haswell, accompanied them to Latitude 32 North.
