April 76 Single Anchor at Spithead Tuesday 23d
A M/ loos'd F:To sail indinable to clear at noon
weighd; turning to windward-at 2 PM came too wth the
:Bt Br 10 Faths Gilhacker NbE inclin[able] to Calm at
2
6 PM weighd
1. PRO, Admiralty 52/1637.
2. Upon the promise of a post captaincy at ihe first opening, and with a promotion to "Master & Commander" of a ship at Boston, Henry Mowat was returning in the refitted Canceaux. "On this foundation," he wrote, ''.he readily Sett out for America." Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society, 2nd series, II, 357-58.
