Last Night arrived here John Grindlay, Mate of the Isabella of this Place, which was taken the 15th of October last, off the Coast of Portland, on her Passage to Minorca, by an American armed Schooner.2 Mr Grindlay and one of the Crew were left in the Ship, and ten Men were put on board from the Schooner; they carried the Isabella into Marblehead, it being impossible for these two to rescue her. Mr. Grindlay left Marblehead on the first of December, having with much Difficulty obtained Leave to come home, by Way of Bilboa, in an American Brig loaded with Fish. When he was at Marblehead, the Ship that took the Isabella arrived with some more Prizes. There were a great many Prizateers fitting out at Marblehead, and the neighbo4ring Ports of Salem, Beverley, &c. mounting from 14 to 24 Guns, which would be all out early in the Spring.
1. Public Advertiser, London, February 27, 1777.
2. Brig Isabella was taken by the Massachusetts privateer schooner True Blue, Captain William Coles, lndependent Chronicle, Boston, November 28, 1776. See also Volume 7, 493.
