Remarks on Board the Boston Fryday June 19th. 1778.
Saw two Sail to the Northwd. standing to the Eastwd. at 9 AM. brought too a Brig, George Fenley Command. belonging to Scotland, bound from Nuvus1 to London loaded with Cream Tarter & Raizines. made a Prize of her, and sent her for Boston, with Joshua Goss, as prize Master, Jacob Tucker Mate, Thomas Stevens, Thomas Brimblecom, James Harris. (Tanique & Roussille Frenchmen) as privates. & Wm. Young a Prizioner.—
NB. the Brig is called the John & Rebecca2
Lattd. ⅌ Obs: 43..47.
D, MH-H, Samuel Tucker Papers (MS Am 812), vol. 6 (Log Book of Boston). This entry runs from noon of 18 June to noon of 19 June, following sea time.
1. According to the Journal of William Jennison, 20 June, below, the prize was bound from Cephalonia (Kefalonia), one of the Greek Ionian Islands.
2. Brig John & Rebecca, George Finlay, master, 85 tons burthen, built in Leith in 1765 and owned by the captain. Lloyd’s Register of Ships, 1777–1778.