September 1775 Friday 22
Block Island N N E 5 or 6 Leagues at 6 A M saw a sail gave Chace to her TKd at 11 Wore Spoke a New York Pilot Boat, hauld our Wind & Chacd a Brig to the Wrd fired a 6 Pr and a Swivel to bring them too. at Noon Brot Too . . . PM Spoke a Brig from Jamaica. Sent a Petty Officer & 4 Men on board and a Petty Officer & 4 Men on board the New York Pilot Boat at 3 Wore and made Sail Saw the Land Nb W 3 Leagues. Squally Wr Close Reft the Topsails at 6 Fresh Gales & Do Wr with Rain got down F G Yds and handed Mz Ts ½ pst 7 Handed F Sl at 9 lost sight of the Brig & Sloop.2
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/629.
2. Both prizes reached Boston. They were both from Jamaica for New York; the New York Pilot Boat was the brig Polly, Joseph Lee, master, with rum, sugar and ginger. She was condemned and sold. The brig was the St. James, David Huntington, master, with rum, sugar and coffee. Her cargo was bought for the army; her hull condemned but not sold. Graves's Conduct, Prize List, II, 36-38, BM.
