Janry Tuesday 27 1778
Remarks at [New] Providence Thick and Hazy With Rain Blowing fresh this Morning A Rebel Sloop1 Came off the Harbour Sent 40 of her hands on Shore took possesion of the fort2 Which Obliged us to make the Best of our Way out of the harbour the Sloop Run in And Came too We Standing off Keeping in Sight of the Land—3
D, DNA, Revolutionary War Prize Cases, Records of the Court of Appeals in Cases of Captures, 1776-1787, Case No. 67 (Rathburn v. the Ship Mary), Log Book of the Ship Mary (Aug. 1777-Feb. 1778), 25.
1. Continental Navy sloop Providence.
2. Fort Nassau.
3. From this entry on, the log is faked by her captors from the sloop Providence, in case she were to be examined by a British warship on her voyage north to New Bedford. See Journal of Marine Captain John Trevett, 31 Jan., below.
