April 1778
Monday 20th.
Do. [Nantucket Shoals] West Dist 35 Leagues
Fresh Gales & Cloudy PM Chaced fired at & brt. too a Rebel Pri vateer Sloop of 8 Guns & 39 Men,1 took the Prisoners out, & sent a Midn. & 8 Men onboard her,2
D, UkLNMM, ADM/L/M/27. Journal kept by Lt. George Countess, second lieutenant of H.M. frigate Maidstone.
1. Rhode Island privateer sloop Greenwich, Joseph Gardner, commander, owned by Jacob Greene and others, bound for New Bedford, taken in Lat. 40°.22 and Long. 67°.02 , sent into Rhode Island. Howe's Prize List, 30 Oct. 1778, UkLPR, Adm. 1/488, fols. 485–86; or more on the cruise of Rhode Island privateer sloop Greenwich, see NDAR 10: 567; 11, 496.
2. On 22 Apr. the Journal notes the privateer sailed for Rhode Island. UkLNMM, ADM L/M/27.