Onboard the Brig. Tyrannicide Lattd . .49.27. Longd 15 . .W April 27 1777
Gentlemen
I with pleasure inform you, this Day we fell in with and took the Snow Sally, Stephen Jones Comr from London bound to Quebec, her Cargo Consisting of English goods, the Particulars of which you will Learn by the Invoices sent. You will observe in the General Invoices, that there is Considerable in them shipt onboard other Vessells, and I hope shall be able to give you a much better Account of them, than their Invoices alone, as the Captain says he so far outsail'd them that he Imagines they must be to the Eastward ー 2
I am much afraid we shall be oblig'd to go to Some Port to Water before the Expiration of One Month, tho' I am in hopes to finish our Cruize before that ー I had almost forgot to mention that we took a Transport Brigt with 63 Hessians onboard bound for New York & hope she will safe arrive to you. ー 3 Captain Jones informs me there is 8 or 10 Men of War off Cape Finister & in the Bay of Biscay, cruising for our Ships with Tobacco & armed Vessells, nothing more at this time worth Notice therefore subscribe myself Gentlemen [&c.]
Jona Haraden
1. Mass. Arch., vol. 152, 182, Board of War Letters, 1776-1777.
2. "Boston, June 12, 1777. Friday last arrived in a safe port the Snow Sally, a Prize taken by Capt. Harriden, in the Brig Tyrannicide, belonging to this State, having on board a Variety of European Goods, among which are 3 or 4000 Blankets. This Vessel, with the Intrepid, Salisbury, Jane and Ann, were loaded by a Merchant in London, and sailed in Company, their Cargoes amounting to £22,000, and consigned to a Gentleman in Quebec," Independent Chronicle, Boston, June 12, 1777.
3. Haraden's reference to the capture of the vessel with Hessians on board caused confusion in the Boston newspapers. Independent Chronicle, June 12, reported the capture of two transports, one by Harnden, in the Tyrannicide and the other by Captain John Fisk in the Massachusetts.
