On tues[da]y the 1st day of October Inst, the Privateer Schooner, from Boston (the day before) named the Speedwell, took a Snow from London, which Sail'd last July in Company with Twenty four top Sail Vessels, bound to Boston: but finding the Harbor evacuated Steer'd off; and by the information of the Mate of the above prize Snow,2 the fleet are now hovering about Nantucket, not knowing where to go, 'till they get orders from New York: as they sign'd Bills of Lading for Boston. ー This Sign'd by part of the Proprietors of the said Privateer Speedwell Commanded by Capt Jno Greely, this 5th day of October 17763
Thos Hichborn Jur Jams Swan P: Parkman
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 165, 329.
2. The snow St. George, 120 tons, Benjamin Bidgood, master, sent into Marblehead October 4, 1776, Independent Chronicle, Boston, October 10 and October 24, 1776.
3. On the strength of this information, the Massachusetts Council ordered the state naval vessels to "proceed towards Nantucket in order to fall in with the abovementioned fleet." Mass. Arch., vol. 165, 330.
