Remarks Thursday April 3d 1777 At ½ past 6. A.M. Made a Sail Gave Chace At 8 Came up With the Chace fired a Swivel at her she Struck her Coulers, she proves to be a Brigg from Lisbon bound to Ireland Called the Fleece Comandd by Capt Fortune Laden'd With Salt & 28 Casks Wine hoisted our boat out & Sent a prize Master & four hands on board. At 10. She Returnd With the Capt & five hands hoisted the boat in & made Sail2 Set the Close Reef T. Sails. Cloudy No Obsn: this Day First part of these 24 hours begins with fresh breezes & Cloudy Weather. At ½ past 6. P.M. Made a Sail but Night Comeing on, twas thought not proper to give chace —
1. Log of the Rising States, PRO, HCA 30/716.
2. "Still in the Bay of Biscay April the 3d we fell in with a Briggt Fleece from Lisbon bound to Cork lading with Wine and Salt, we took her and put on board of her Mr [Arthur} Dillaway as prize Master, and men sufficient to work her and sent her for France," Journal of Timothy Connor, LC. Connor, a seaman on board the Massachusetts privateer Brigantine Rising States opened his journal with the following: "Forton Goal, June the 15th 1777 ー I now shall begin to keep a journal and recollect the particulars that has happen'd since we sailed from Boston, of which I shall take the following particulars according to the best of my remembrance since I left Boston." Hereafter cited as Connor's Journal, LC.
