The Independent Chronicle, and the Universal Advertiser (Boston), Thursday, February 19, 1778

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BOSTON, February 19, 1778.

Yesterday se'nnight, arrived here, the armed Sloop Adams,¹ EDWARD BEEKE,² Commander, from a Cruize, all well. On the 28th of January, in Lat. 35. 18 Long. 65. 10 spoke with the Sloop Catharine, David Arnold, Master, from Providence, bound to the Cape,³ all well. January 29, in Lat. 36. 20 Long. 67. 10, spoke with a Sloop from Newbury-Port, —— Boles Commander, out 10 days, all well.

1. Connecticut privateer sloop Adams, mounting 14 guns, a crew of 80 men, was commissioned on 30 July 1777. She was owned by Samuel Broome, of Wethersfield, and John Broome, Andrew Rowland and Jeremiah Platt, of Hartford, Conn. DNA, PCC, item 196, vol. 1, p. 21.

2. Edward Beebe of Wethersfield, Conn.

3. Cape François, Saint-Domingue.

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1778 February 19

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Independent Chronicle, and the Universal Advertiser (Boston)

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American Theatre from January 1, 1778 to March 31, 1778

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