January 1778 Tuesday 13th.
[Cape] Henlopen NW 3/4 W 160 Miles AM at 7 Saw a Sail in the NE Quarter out 2nd. Reefs Topsails & made Sail punished Geo: Hookings with one Dozen for Neglect of Duty. the Sloop in Company.1 at Noon Tack'd. Ditto NW 3/4 W 156 Miles Fresh Gales and Cloudy Saw our prize Sloop bearing SSE distance 3 Lgs. Still in Chace. PM at ½ pt: 1 fired a Shot and brought too the Chace She proved to be a Brig from Surnam Bound to Boston Loaden with Molasses.2 took 7 Men out of her. and Sent 2 petty Officers and 6 Men onboard Her. at 3 our prize Sloop Joined us. ¾ past [3] made sail the Sloop & Schooner in Company. at Midnight backed the Mizen Topsls: for our prizes.
D, UkLPR, Adm. 51/331,113.
1. Sloop Morning Star.
2. Brigatine Sally, Thomas Vollantine, master, from Surinam to Boston, with molasses and coffee, sent to New York City. Howe's Prize List, 30 Oct. 1778, UkLPR, Adm. 1/488, fol. 485. She was libelled on 28 Jan. 1778 in the Vice Admiralty Court of New York, UkLPR, H.C.A. 49/93, 213-14. Sally was ordered appraised as a recapture on 20 Feb. with Experiment receiving the recaptor's share of ¼ of the ship's value. Her cargo was condemned as lawful prize on the same day. Ibid., H.C.A. 49/94, 19. Sally's prize papers give her master's name as Thomas Vallintine, Ibid., H.C.A. 32/447/13.
