[Off the coast of South Carolina]
A M saw the land from NbE to WNW dist 6 Lgs lattr part fresh gales & squally in all reefs T sails, and handed F T sail, wore ship
First part fresh gales & thick Wr, with rain, sett F T sail @ 5 P M Chas town beacon NbW½W dist 7 or 8 miles TKd ship & fir'd a Gun for the schr² to come under our stern, middle & lattr part light airs, wore ship out 2 reefs T sails, land from NE to NW dist 4½ leags. soundgs from 16 to 7 fm

First part light breezes, P M @ 2 saw 3 pilot boats, but they got over the Barr, @ 8 came to with the Bt Br in 5 fm verr'd to ½ a cable  Sullivan's Island WNW 5 or 6 miles,

a m pretty modt  @ 3 hoisted out the Boats to reconnoitre the harbr. & Rebellion road, @ 5 perceived a privateer brig with her prize standing in for Chas town Barr, fir'd 2 guns. for the Boats, @ 7 they return'd, made sail, @ 11 prize run aground
Modte Gales, @ 2 pm came to with a spring on our bt Br in ¼ less 4 fm, mann'd all Bts & the schr with seamen and marines commanded by lieuts Boweh & Popple, who boarded her, & set her on fire, takg 2 Rebels & 3 of the Ship's Cr out of her, she was the St James, of Bristol, from Jamaica, @ 5 weigh'd, & @ 7 came to in 5 fm

AM @ 3 veer'd away a whole cable, @ 10 came on bd a boat with 4 deserters from the Rebels, Comet schr gone in chace of the sailg boat in shore.
First & middle part modt. & clear  P M @ 5 came to with the Bt Br in 5½ fm @ 6 the schr came alongside with her prize, an open Bt with 11 casks of Turpentine, turn'd her adrift, & sett fire to her, Lattr part light airs & clear,

empld occasionally, sent the boats to sound the Channels in over the Bar  Sullns Isld NWbN
First part modt & clear, the boats returned from Soundg the Bar  found 19 foot on it, hoist'd them in & came to sail, Comet schr in [company]³