D, MdAA, Admiralty Court, Court Papers, S116-19 (MdHR 7871-1-19). Docketed on separate sheet: “Colo Saml. Handy &/others.—/Libel/vs/The Frigate/Mermaid/ Mr Clabon filer/[illeg.]/filed the 15th day of/ August 1778/Monition iss’d Same day.” With the petition is an interrogatory of Thomas Ross, doctor’s mate of Mermaid attesting that Mermaid was a ship of the British Navy, that Col. Handy took possession of it after it was stranded, and that Mermaid was stranded on 8 July 1778. The French fleet had forced H.M. frigate Mermaid, Capt. James Hawker, ashore.