March [l777] Wednesday 5th
Barbuda bore SWbS½W 48 Leagues At 6 AM Saw a Sail in the SE Qr made Sail in Chace finding We did not come up with the Chace haul'd our Wind and gave Chace to a Schooner to the Eastward Do [Fresh breezes and fair Wear] Fired 5 Guns Shotted at the Chace ½ past PM she brought too hoisted out a Boat and spoke her from Surinam bound to Ipswich in No America at 5 in boats and made Sail ... Prize in Company.2
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/711.
2. Schooner Betsey, John Holmes, master, with a cargo of molasses, Public Advertiser, London, June 30, 1777.
