[Newport] May 6 [1775]
This day another Man o' War Capt. Lindley2 came here, so we have now three ships here ー tho it is said that the Rose Man o' War Capt. [James] Wallace is called away.
1. Stiles, II, 58, LC.
2. The sloop Falcon, Captain John Linzec, whose journal for May 6, 1775, reads, "At Noon working into Rhode Island Harbour . . . at 2 P M Came too in Rhode Island Harbr. Brentons Point WNW Rhode Island Church East." PRO, Admiralty, 51/336.
