Remarks on Board the Boston Tuesday. Augst. 4th. 1778- [Saint-Nazaire, France]
This Day pleasant weather, by my Orders left with Lieut. Reed1 he sent Mr. Jacobs in the Cutter, with a Guard of Marines, to conduct the four prize Masters, with the Men2 to peinprieof3 & deliver them to Capt. Whipple of the Providence
D, MH-H, Samuel Tucker Papers (MS Am 812), vol. 6 (Log Book of Boston).
1. Lt. Benjamin Reed, 1st lieutenant of Boston.
2. On the prizes captured by Boston, see the journal entry of 17 July, above.
3. That is, Paimboeuf, France.