Octr 1776 Monday 28
Cape Hatteras N4:59 Wt 45 Lgs at 6 AM a Sail to Leewd Made Sl after her fird 11 Nine Pd shot to bring her too, found her to be a Sloop from No. Carolina bd to St Eustatia laden with Tobacco, Tar &c.2 sent some Men on board her Light breezes & Cloudy 1st part, Mid: Squally lattr fresh breezs at 2 PM fired 2 Guns for the Convoy to come under our stern at 5 repd the Sigl with 1 Gun, in 1st Rf F: & Mn Topsls
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/909.
2. Sloop Peggy, Howe's Prize List, March 31, 1777, ibid., 1/487.
