January 1778. Wednesday 28
Ditto [So. part of Saint Georges Bank] WSW. 20 Lgs. at 8 AM saw a Sail to the Westd. out reefs, made Sail, and gave Chace, at noon the Chace brot. too. Ditto [So. part of Saint Georges Bank] SW ½ W. 11Lgs. Fresh breezes and hazey for the most part, remainder Strong gales. PM sent a Boat on board the Chace, the Betty,1 a Brig from Liverpool bound to Dominica, Lading with Provision & dry goods, had been taken by the Harliquin2 Privateer of Boston in Latde. 18.0 No. took out the Prisoners, & sent a Petty Officer & 6 men on board her, at 4 close reef'd the Topsails, at 7 sounded 20 fath., at 9 24 fath.
D, UkLPR, Adm. 51/52, part 2, fol. 4.
1. Brig Betty, James Dawson, late master, owned by John Chorley, from Liverpool to Dominica, with provisions and dry goods, retaken near St. Georges Bank, sent into Newport. Howe's Prize List, 30 Oct. 1778, UkLPR, Adm. 1/488, fol. 486.
2. Massachusetts privateer schooner Harlequin, Francis Bowden Dennis, commander, mounting 10 carriage guns, a crew of 60 seamen, owned by Jerathmeel Peirce and John Leach of Salem, which was commissioned on 12 Nov. 1777. M-Ar, Revolutionary Rolls Collection, vol. 6, 93, p. 95.