Boston July 8th. 1776
[Extract] Mr. Adams
I have to inform you that Yesterday was sent into C[ape] Ann by Capt. [Henry] Johnson of this port Two ships One Large One from Jamaica with 500 hhd. Sugar and rum and 39 bags Cotton &c. ー A General and Lady, passengers. The Other from Antigua on the Kings Account for Genl. How with 430 hhd. Rum all broad Air. They both made resistance both Vessells had more hands than the privatear...2
1. Butterfield, ed., Adams Family Correspondence. II, 41, 42.
2. The Massachusetts privateer sloop Yankee, of 9 guns and 60 men; the prizes being the ship Zachariah Bayley, of 300 tons burden, and the ship Creighton, of about 200 tons; Mass. Arch., vol. 7, 342, and New-England Chronicle, July 11, 1776.