October 1776 Friday 11
In Halifax Harbour AM Discharged the Prisoners, into H. Majestys Ship Boulogneー First part modr and Cloudy, middle and latter fresh Gales and Cloudy, at 3 PM hove short, 1/2 past weigh'd; at 4 came too and sent the Warrans Guns2 onboard the Rainbow, at 5 weighed and came to sail,
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/548.
2. The guns of Washington's schooner Warren, Captain William Burke, taken August 26, 1776 by the Liverpool.