Remarks on Board the Boston. Sunday. July 5th. 1778— [Port Louis, France]
This Day pleasent Weather, at 6 in the Evening two of my Prizes arrived here, one of them Mr. Vickery Prize Master,1 the other Mr. Snowdon.—2 nothing very Perticular to Remark this Day.—
D, MH-H, Samuel Tucker Papers (MS Am 812), vol. 6 (Log Book of Boston).
1. John Vickery was prize master of the brig Elizabeth, which Boston captured on 25 June.
2. Midn. George Snowden was prize master of an unidentified Scottish brig Boston captured on either 28 or 29 June. See Journal of Lieutenant William Jennison, Continental Marines, 28 June, and Journal of Boston, 29 June, both above. Jennison, however, identified the prize master as “Tanais.”