Running through the [Vineyard] Sound
Weighed [from Rhode Island] & Came to sail Convoy in Compy Mode & Cloudy at 4 P M Fired 2 Shot at the Custom house Schooner thinking she was taken by the Rebels as She did not Answer us when we haild her & Whale boats passing and repassing from the shore to her she had in Company a Sloop which we Sopposed had taken her