February 1778 Thursday 19
Do: [Block Island] N 23º W dist: 101 Leagues AM Light Airs and Variable at 6 saw a Sail in the SE Qr: gave Chace to Do: at Noon came up with the Chace fir'd a Gun & brought her too, she prov'd to be a Privateer Brigg, (the Reprisal)1 of 10 Guns from Boston on a Cruize, took the Prisoners on Board, and put a petty Offr: with 8 Men on board her to take Charge Do: [Block Island] N 22º W dist: 137 Leagues PM light Airs and Cloudy Wr:
D, UkLPR, Adm. 51/1017, fol. 235.
1. Brig Reprisal (Privr.), James Brown, master, owned by Charles Signy, from Boston, on a cruise, with provisions &c., taken by Unicorn on 19 Feb. off St. Georges Bank, sent into Newport. Howe's Prize List, 30 Oct. 1778, UkLPR, Adm. 1/488, fols. 486-87. Massachusetts privateer brigantine Reprisal, mounting 10 carriage guns, a crew of 60 seamen, was commissioned on 28 Jan. and owned by Charles Sigourney and others of Boston. M-Ar, Revolutionary Rolls Collection, vol.7, pp. 34, 35. She 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, fol. 98. Her prize papers are in UkLPR, H.C.A. 32/439/8.
