Mount Christi SW ½ W Point Isabella SE dist. 4 or 5 Leags.
At 5 [AM] Saw a Sail in the Offing bearing No. Do. Sailed hence the Badgers Tender in Chace. At 12 the Barge retd. with the Washington Sloop from North Carolina Bound to Cape Francois Loaden'd with Tobacco Staves Bees Wax &c. Brought the Captn. 4 Hands & a Boy out of her. the above Prize Engaged the Barge before she Struck.1
Light Winds & fair Wr. [PM] Employed taking the Sloops Cargo out & stowing it away on bd. of us