March 1777 Sunday 2d
Cape Henry So 85W Distance 38 Leag: At 9 AM Saw a Schooner to Windwd fir'd Several Shot to bring her too. At ½ past 11 Wore Ship, set the Fore Sail & gave Chace Fresh gales & Cloudy At 1 PM Came up wth and Brat too the Chace a Schooner from Hispaniola bound to Maryland,2 at ½ past Haul'd the Main Sail up & Brat too under the Fore Sail, at 6 More Modt sent a Petty Officer & 6 Men onbd the Prize, at 8 Running under an Easy Sail the Prize in Co
Monday 3d
at 8 AM Brat too and sent a Boat onboard the Schooner, took the Officer & Men out of the Prize and Scuttled her,
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/694.
2. Maryland schooner Ninety Two, Jeremiah Rogers, master, with salt and dry goods, Howe's Prize List, May 22, 1777, London Gazette, July 8 to July 12, 1777.
