On board the Reprisal July 13th 1776
Gent.
This will inform of a Small Addition to our good fortune in the Prize Way. We this day took Capt [John] Muckelno in the Schooner Peter of Liverpool from St Vincent bound to Liverpool in Brittain, Loaded with: Rum ー Sugar Coffee Cocoa & Cotton, We also took Capt [Charles] Mackey in the Ship Friendship from Granada, bound to London, wch I have wrote you of before, and, Now; Send a Coppy of that Letter. this Schooner, is ordered into one or Either of the Egg Harbours, if she Can get in there, If not into any other Port on the Coast, I have given orders to Mr Jeremiah Holden to Send this letter & the Schrs papers & letters to you by Express on his Arrival in America. We had very little Wind this two or three dayspast & are but little further on our Way, than when I Wrote you last, 2 from Gentlemen [&c.]
Lambt Wickes
1. Papers CC (Letters addressed to Congress), 78, XXIII, 295, NA.
2. "The American Congress have fitted out twenty privateers, of sixteen guns, and one hundred and twenty men each. A certain share of the prizes they take, is deposited in the Congress bank, to carry on the war, and the remainder is distributed among the crews. One of these privateers, named the Reprisal, took the Friendship, Capt, Macky, from Gr[e]nada with upwards of five hundred hogsheads of sugar. The captain of the privateer offered Capt. Macky his liberty and permission to take his private property, which were accepted. But. the crew of the Friendship voluntarily entered into the service of the American Congress. This privateer two or three days afterwards took two more merchant vessels, viz, one from Antigua to Cork, and one from St. Vincent's to Liverpool." Almon, ed., Remembrancer, III, 235.
