May 1778 Sunday 3d
Remarks at Fall River, [Mass.] 1778.
This 24 hours wind at SW., fair weather apprehended, Parker Borden, & Gideon Borden, as enemys to the United States of America in wishing the Spitfire, Blound up1 as the Ship Lately, (the Randolph)2 with 300 men on Board, Sent those Traytors, to Tiverton, PM., on Moord3 came to Sail and Beet down to the Mount at bristol4
D, UkLPR, H.C.A. 32/455/1.
1. That is, blown up.
2. On the destruction of Continental Navy frigate Randolph, Capt. Nicholas Biddle, commander, see NDAR 11: 576, 683, 811.
3. That is, unmoored.
4. Mount Hope at Bristol, R.I.
