Remarks Saturday [Sunday] March, 16, 1777 At. 8. Made A Sail bearg E B S, Dist 5 Leags to Which we Gave Chance, At Me[ri]d[ian] Came up With the Chace, it proves to be a french Ship Londu Capt curronat, from Bourdeaux [&] out 8 days, bound to Cap Franceway, They inform us they Saw two Ships two days Ago Standing NNE. Likewise their is no War proclaimd in France. Nothing More Remarkable this day — No Lattd by Obsn First part of these 24 hours begins with Moderate Wheather, being in Company With a french Ship, At. 3. P.M. parted Company bore away, fird a Gun, & Gave three Cheers, [At 11] Up N BE of N EBN. hove too under The T. Sails, Cloudy
1. "A Log Book kept on'board the Brigantine Rising States James Thompson Commander, begun Feby 18, 1777," PRO, HCA 30/716. Hereafter cited as Log of the Rising States.
