[Frigate Boston at sea]
1778 [Feb.] 19
Discovered a Sail to the Eastward at 5 am—At 10 am discovered 2 others supposed to be Cruizers1—Stood for them till noon. At 3 pm One of the Ships2 in Chase of Us—Course SE by S—
DLC, Journal of Lieutenant William Jennison, p. 5.
1. H.M. frigates Apollo and Mermaid with prize ship Félicité. See Journal of H.M.S. Apollo, 19 Feb., below.
2. H.M.S. Apollo. Ambrose Serle, The American Journal of Ambrose Serle, Secretary to Lord Howe, 1776-1778, ed. Edward H. Tatum, Jr. (San Marino, Calif.: The Huntington Library, 1940), 315. See Journal of H.M.S. Apollo, 19 and 20 Feh., below.