LONDON.
The Carolina Packet, M’Cullan, from Corke to New York,1 is taken near Egg-Harbour, within a few leagues of New York, by a rowboat privateer.
1. Brig Carolina Packet, William M’Cullam, master, 130 tons, a single-deck brig, built in New York in 1768 and owned by McDaniel. Lloyd’s Register of Ships, 1777–1778. It was captured in late March or early April by sloop Scorpion, John Brooks, commander. Minutes of the Council of Safety of the State of New Jersey, (Jersey City, N.J., 1872), pp. 221–23. In a letter of 6 Apr. to Gen. George Washington, Col. Israel Shreve reported that the Carolina Packet’s cargo, consisting of “200 Barrels of Beef, 50 of pork, upwards of 2000 firkins Rose Butter, 51 peices of Linnin,” had been purchased for use by the Continental Army. DLC, George Washington Papers, Series 4.
