Feby. 1778 Monday 2nd
At Single Anchor off Sandy Hook. AM Came down the Schooner Willing Maid which we fitted as a Tender.1 Boats Empd. Watering. at 10 weighed and Came to Sail, running out from the Hook, passed by a Sloop from Bermuda and 4 Ships from London, Fresh Breezes and fair, Sailed over the Bar, PM at 2 Saw a Large ship ashore on Long Island; and Several small Sail, standing inshore, at 7 our Tender in Co.
D, UkLPR, Adm. 51/331, 116.
1. On 3 Feb. Experiment ordered her tender Hawk, formerly WiIling Maid, to cruize off Delaware Bay. Ibid. While in Delaware Bay off Maurice River on 6 Feb., Hawk captured sloop Lee, J. Bennett, master, from Maurice River, N.J., to Hispaniola, with tobacco and staves, and sent her to NewYork City. Her capture was credited to H.M.S. Experiment. Howe's Prize List, 30 October 1778, UkLPR, Adm. 1/488, fol. 485. Lee was libelled on 18 Feb. 1778 in the Vice Admiraly Court of New York and condemned on 11 Mar. UkLPR, H.C.A. 49/94, fols. 16,29. Her prize papers give the master's name as Jacob Bennett. Ibid., 32/387/24.