[Nantasket Roads, Mass.]
Remarks on Friday febry 13th—1778
This Morning Still Continues fresh Gales from the NW Which Prevents me from Unmoreing Still I haveing Some Capatal business att Brantre1 Send my boat on Shore to Georges Island and brought off a Pilot to Conduct me their att 10 AM Proceeded their finisht my business and Returnd on board by 5 PM Where I found my Offercers to my Satisfaction Returnd from Boston with all my Necessarys I Indented for Except it was Pistols I thought Propper to Send my Ships master Mr Bates2 on board of a Schooner for wood which lay in the Road Mr Bates not likeing the wood Returnd & acquainted me So Ends this Day—Still Blowing from the NW—Hard gales
D, MH-H, Samuel Tucker Papers (fMS Am 812),vol. 6 (Log Book of Boston).
1. Tucker went in the ship's boat to Quincy Bay near Braintree to embark John Adarns and his son, John Quincy Adams, for a voyage to France. See Diary of John Adams, 13 Feb., below.
2. Benjamin Bates.
