May 1778 Tuesday 12th.
Do. [Nantucket Shoals] N82W Dist 20 Lgs.
Fresh Breezes & fair, AM joind the Apollo,1 and gave Chace to a Sail in the SE Quarter
Do. [Nantucket Shoals] N62W Dist 24 Lgs.
Do Wr. PM at 4 brt. too the Chace a Schooner2 from So. Carolina for Newberry, with Indigo, Cordage, & Rice, Sent our Gunner & 4 Men on board her3 & gave Chace to a Sail to the Et.ward, at 7 fired 3 Guns & brt. too the Chace a Schooner from Philadelphia for Halifax,
D, UkGrNMM, ADM L/M/27. Journal kept by Lt. George Countess, second lieutenant of H.M. frigate Maidstone.
1. H.M. frigate Apollo, Capt. Philemon Pownoll, commander.
2. Schooner Jack & Harry, master unknown, owned by John Tracey & Co. of Newburyport, Mass., bound to Newburyport from [South] Carolina with rice, indigo and cordage, sent into Rhode Island. Howe's Prize List, 30 Oct. 1778, UkLPR, Adm. 1/488, fols. 485–86.
3. The Journal continues on 13 May: “AM sent 6 of the American Prisoners on board the Apollo, took the Indigo & Cordage out of the Prize, our Gunner & two of our Men retd. on bd. & the Apollo sent a Midn. & two Men on board her, at 11 Made Sail the Prize parted Coy. for Rhode Island, the Apollo in Coy. at Noon.” UkGrNMM L/M/27.
