January 1777 Wednesday 1st
Remarks on Board the Diamond [1777] at 10 Sent our Boats Mand & armd a Shore to pationce Island thinking The Rebels had landed there But they returnd and found non upon the Island The First part Modt & cloudy Weather with Rain the Residue Modt and fair at ½ past 7 P.M Veer'd To a Whole Cable at ½ past 9 discovered that the Longboat had been Cut from our Steren By two of our American Seamen which wer took in a Privateer Sloop
1. PRO, Admiralty 52/1699.