January [1777] Monday 20
Cape Henry West 2 Leagues. at Noon came to an Anchor Clear weather, mann'd & Armed the Barge & Pinnace & sent them to chace a sloop which the[y] boarded she proved from St Eustatia to Virginia, 2 sent a Lieut & 25 Men in the Sloop to proceed with the Brune, after a ship which had run in Shore, which they took, she proved to be the Farmer from Maryland bound to France with Tobacco. 3
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/720.
2. The sloop Batchelor, William Seon, master, with rum, salt and dry goods, Howe's Prize List, May 22, 1777, London Gazette, July 8 to July 12, 1777.
3. Ibid., the ship Farmer, Benjamin Dashiel, master, from Baltimore.