The private Ship of War PUTNAM, mounting twenty Carriage Guns (nine Pounders) will be ready for Sea by the middle of April:
Any Gentlemen Volunteers who may chuse to enter on Board the said Ship for a six Months Cruize, shall be put on daily Pay from the Time of their coming on Board, 'till the Ship is ready to Sail.
THOMAS ALLON, Captain.
New-London, 18th March, 1778.
Connecticut Gazette; and the Universal Intelligencer, 20 Mar. 1778.