[Cape Porpoise Harbor] Monday [Tuesday], April 8.
At 8 A. M. hove up and came to sail, with the wind at E. by N.
Tuesday [Wednesday], April 9. At 2 A. M. made Cape Ann, at 6 came to an anchor in Salem harbour, at 11 hauled into the wharff, and discharged the people.
Thomas Weaver, 1st Lieut.
John Margeson, act. Lieut.
Joseph Vesey, Master.
John Dinsdell, 1st Lieut. Marines.
Edward Ruddock, Chief Carpepter.
[Endorsed] Suffolk, April 16, 1777. Thomas Weaver, John Margeson, Joseph Vesey, John Dinsdell, and Edward Ruddock, made oath that the foregoing journal, by them subscribed, is just and true, before me,
Joseph Greenleaf, Justice of Peace.
Having examined the foregoing journal of the brigantine Cabot, signed and attested by my brother officers, I do hereby certify the facts therein related.
Edward Arrowsmith, Capt. Marines.
[Second endorsement]
State of Massachusetts-Bay.
I Henry Allen, jun. Notary Public, by lawful authority duly admitted, dwelling and practicing in Boston, in said State, do hereby certify all whom it may concern, that the foreg[o Jing is a true copy of the original journal, and of the caption thereon taken by Joseph Greenleaf, Esq; and that the said Joseph Greenleaf, Esq; is a justice of the peace for the county of Suffolk, within said State, and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his acts and attestations as aforesaid. Thus done at Boston, in said State, this twenty-first day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my notarial seal.
Henry Allen, jun. Notary Public.
