February 1776 [Monday] 19 River Savanah Georgia
Long boat watering
first part fresh breezes  middle & latter with drizling rain at 2 P M came in a Sloop tender from Cape Feare, which brought Intelligence of Waldrons pilot boat being taken which was Employ'd in the Rebell Service at Charles Town2
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/968.
2. This was the pilot boat Hawke, Captain Joseph Vesey, which had taken. Captain Robert Cochran to Philadelphia in his search for recruits for the South Carolina navy. On the return voyage, with Christopher Gadsden as a passenger, the Hawke had been run ashore on the North Carolina coast, where crew and passengers made their escape. The pilot boat was hauled off by the enemy.