Feby. 1778 Tuesday 3
Do. [Halifax Light house] N 80 Wt. 167 Leags. [AM] Saw a sail to the Soward Gave Chase Do. [Halifax Light house] N. 81..09 Wt. 208 Leags. Light Breezes & fair intermixed with Calms Latter fresh Gales & fair [PM] Brot too the Chase she proved to be the Ship Gruel1 from Sheepsgutt, bound to Nantz, Laden with Masts, At Noon the Dunmore in Compy.
D, UkLPR, Adm. 51/607, 157.
1. Massachusetts State trading ship Gruel, Joseph Proctor, master, from Sheepscot, Me., bound to Nantes. Her prize papers are in UkLPR, H.C.A. 32/346/3.
