March 1777 Wednesdy 5th
Do [Monti Christy] SEBE 4 Leags at 6 AM chac'd to the SE, at 9 sent the Pinnace in chace, fired 18 Guns to bring her too ー First & Lattr Parts modt & fair Wr Middle fresh and Squally wth Rain, ½ past Noon our Boat boarded the Chace, & at 2 Join'd us found her the Adventure Sloop from America to the Cape wth Rice & Indigo ー took possession, & at 6 P M in 2d Reef TSails & handed Main & Mizn TSails ー made sail Prizes in Company ー
Thursday 6th
at 2 AM saw the land, set sail & haled off lost sight of our Prizes ー at 6 the Schooner Polly join'd us but fear the other two are wrecked on Tortuga 2 ー
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/463.
2. Only the brig Chance was lost; the Adventure arrived safely at Port Royal on March 12, 1777, PRO, Admiralty 51/463. The list of prisoners taken out of the three prizes was forwarded to the Admiralty as an enclosure in Vice Admiral Gayton's letter March 30, 1777. The prisoners from Chance included twenty-four Frenchmen "said to be Passengers," PRO, Admiralty 1/5117.
