Jany. 1778 Thursday 8th.
[Cape] Henlopen NWbN 473 Miles AM at 3 Light Airs and Cloudy. ½ pt. 7 Saw a Sail bearing WNW. we made Sail and Gave Chace, Sent a Boat onbd: found her to be a Brig from Turks Island Bound to Bermudas Loaded with Salt. ¼ pt: 9 made Sail ¼ pt: 10 Saw a Sail bearing NWBW. which we take to be a Schooner. ½ pt: 11 the Schooner Tacked and Hauld her Wind. at Noon the Chace bore NE 6 Miles— Ditto NNW¾W 440 Miles Fresh Gales and Cloudy Wr: at 2 PM fired a Gun and brought too the Chace She proved to be a Sloop Named the Morning Star 5 days from Great Egg Harbour for Hispaniola with flour and Tobacco on Account of the Reble Congress1 took 8 Men out of her, and sent 2 petty Officers and 8 Men On board her. at 4 made Sail the Sloop in Company. ½ pt: 5 Close Reefed the Main & fore Topsail and Handed the Mizen Do: the prize SBW 2 Miles.
D, UkLPR, Adm. 51/331, fol. 112.
1. Sloop Morning Star, Job Carr, master, from Great Egg Harbor to St. Eustatius, with flour and tobacco, sent to New York City. Howe's Prize List, 30 October 1778, UkLPR, Adm. 1/488, fol. 485. She was libelled on 28 Jan. in the Vice Admiralty Court of New York and condemned on 20 Feb. 1778. UkLPR, H.C.A. 49/93,214 and 49/94,19-20. Her prize papers give the master's name as Job Kerr and her destination as Curaçao. Ibid., 32/404/7.
