Feby 1778 Monday 16
Isl. Roan East1 4 Legs: at 6 AM She Bore up under Engs. Colours, let fly her Top Gt. Sheets fired a Gun & hawl'd her Wind to the Nord. at 10 Carryed away the Main Top Gt. Mast, find the Chace to Out Sail us, at 11 Pelican Wore to the Nord. Do. Stood after her Suppose the Chace to be the Cumberland a Rebel Privatier of 22 Guns,2 Heavy Gales & rain NE: End of Granada SEBE 8 Legs. Hard Gales & rain Beating up the NE Side of Granada
D, UkLPR, Adm. 51/4181, part 11, fol. 51.
1. Ronde Island, The Grenadines.
2. Massachusetts privateer ship Cumberland, James Collins, commander, mounting 20 guns, crew of 180 men, was commisioned on 12 and 13 Sept. 1777 and was owned by Paul Dudley Sargent and others, of Boston. M-Ar, Revolutionary Rolls, vol. 5, 112, 115.
