June 1776 Friday 21st
Cowbay Point [Haiti] NBW 3 or 4 miles at 5 AM wore and made sail, out reefs, set Steering sails, loosed the Mainsail, at 6 saw the East end of Jamaica bearing WSW 3 or 4 leags, at 8 Yallah's Bill W½N 5 or 6 leags, unbent the Mainsail, at 10 White Horse Cliffs NW½W 5 or 6 miles. [Fresh breezes and cloudy] at 1 PM down Steering sails, at 2 Saluted Vice Admiral Gayton with 15 Guns, ½ past 2 Came too with the Best Bower in 7½ fathoms in Portroyal harbor, found here His Majesty's Ships Boreas (Vice Admiral Gayton of the White) Maidstone; and the Racehorse, Porcupine and West Florida arm'd Vessels; at 3 Carried out the Stream, weigh'd the Best Bower and warp'd farther in, ½ past 5 let go the Best Bower in 6½ fathoms, veered away and moored a Cable ea[ch] way,
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/667. The Pallas had come in from the Guinea coast, per orders from the Admiralty. See George Jackson to Peter Mitchell, January 21, 1776, Volume 3, 519-21.