April 1776 Cape Henlopen No 59 Wt dist: 60 Leagues.
Thursday 25 at 6 AM got up Top gallant Yds at 7 out 2d reef of Main do at ½ past 8 saw a sail to the Eastward out 1st reef & gave chace set the driver & steering sails, at 11 hauled down steering sails & driver at ½ past found her a sloop from Rhode Island to the West Indies," got the Prisoners on board & sent a Midshipman & 6 Men to take Charge of her. Fresh gales, & Cloudy with rain PM wore ship & made sail the Prize in Company
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/375.
2. The sloop Sally, Arthur Crawford, master, Zachariah Allen, owner, from Providence for. Hispaniola, with 100 barrels of flour, four thousand hoops and one thousand staves. She was bonded at Providence on April 13, 1776, JCBL. She is listed in Howe's Prize List, March 31, 1777, PRO, Admiralty 1/487.
