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Decr 1775
Sunday 3d
Do [Sandy Hook] No 25"00 Wt 89 Leagues
Hard Gales & Squally at 1 P M Handed fore & Mizn topsails in Setting the Jib it split & lost most part of it housed the Lee guns found the Jib boom Sprung at 4 brought too the Chase a Snow from Dominica bound to New York the Gale Increasing handed the Courses and lay too under Main staysail a great sea shipped a great...
Date: 10 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
December 1775
Saturday 16th
At Single Anchor Sandy Hook Light House SBE½S
fir'd 3 Shot at Different times to bring Vessels too coming in The first part Modt Breezes & Cloudy. The Remainder light winds & hazy wth Drizling rain. PM at 1 Weighed and came to Sail. at 5 Anchord wth the Small Bower in 14 Fathom Veerd to ½ A Cable Governor Island Bearing SE Distance ¾ Mile. Found riding...
Date: 17 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Feby 1776
Monday 12
Sandy Hook Light House WSW diste 5 Miles
at 6 A M weighed & came to sail Kitty Glascow Packet Three Sisters in Co. 11 A M Discharged the Pilot.... Three Sisters parted Campy being for England.
Date: 12 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Septr 1777
Friday 19
Sandy Hook N8.43E 152 LS
at 6 AM Saw a Sail to the Nowd Gave Chace at 7 TKd — Modte Breezes and Fair Wr ½ pt 1 PM Fired three Shot & Brot too the Brigg General Gadsden George Lacey Master from Charlestown bound to Amsterdam Laden with Rice Tobacco & Indigo2
Date: 19 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9