Decr [1776] Saturday 21st
[Off Coast of Delaware] AM at 9 set the Mainsail & haul'd up the Mizen Strong gales and hazey. PM The Schooner Prize in Company.2 at 11 More Moderate, Set the Foresail.
Sunday 22
AM Set the Topsails. Saw two strange Sail to Windward, out all reefs, Sway'd up topgallt Masts and Yards. at 10 hoist out the Barge arm'd, and sent her in pursuit of a Schooner. Light breezes. at 5 PM Brot too, and sent our Boat with a petty Officer and 4 Men on board the Betsey Sloop from St Martins bound to Baltimore 3
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/674.
2. Schooner Read, taken the day before.
3. With a cargo of salt, J. Hayman, master, Howe's Prize List, March 3_1, 1777, PRO, Admiralty 1/487.