February 1778 Friday 6
Do: [Nantucket South Shoal] S 78º W dist: 28 Leags. AM Do: Wr: [fresh breezes & clear] sounded in 34, 35, 37 & 39 fms: fine brown sand & black Specks, at 10 saw a Sail in the NE Qr: gave Chace to Do: Do: [Nantucket South Shoal] S 71º W dist: 32 Leagues. PM modt: and cloudy Wr: in Chace at 8 fir'd several Guns at the Chace & brought her too, she prov'd to be the Mc: Clarey1 a Brigg Privateer of 8 Guns from Piscataqua on a Cruize, took the Crew on board Prisoners & put a petty Offcr: with 8 Men on board her to take Charge,
D, UkLPR, Adm. 51/1017, fols. 233-34.
1. Brig Mc.Clary (Privr.), John Gregory, master, owned by Jacob Tredwell & Co., from Portsmouth, on a cruize, with provisions &c., taken on 6 Feb. off St. Georges Bank, sent into Newport. Howe's Prize List, 30 Oct. 1778, UkLPR, Adm. 1/488, fols. 486-87. New Hampshire privateer McClary, mounting 8 carriage guns, a crew of 50 seamen, was commissioned on 28 Jan. She was owned by Robert Furnis and others of Portsmouth and was bonded by Jacob Treadwell and Thomas Martin of Portsmouth. DNA, PCC, item 196, vol. 9, p. 108. McClary was libelled on 15 Apr. in the Vice Admiralty Court of New York and condemned on 8 May as a lawful prize of H.M.S. Unicorn. UkLPR, H.C.A. 49/94, fols. 97-98. Her prize papers are in UkLPR, H.C.A. 32/401/9.
