March 1776 Moor'd in Graves End Bay
Saturday 2d
Mode Breezes and Clear A M Fir'd Severall Shott at Vessels to bring them to. 2
P M Sail'd hence the Harriot Transport with the Sally Salt Ship and the Francis Sloop. 3
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/693.
2. A prize taken that day, but not recorded in the journal, was the sloop Ranger, Thomas Dobbs, master; Abraham Eve, owner, bound from New York for Egg Harbor, in ballast, Shuldham's prize list, May 23, 1776, lists the Ranger as sunk, PRO, Admiralty 1/484.
3. The Harriot, from England, had anchored in Gravesend Bay on February 20; the Sally was the prize taken by the Phoenix on February 3, and the Francis had dropped down from New York on February 21. All three were intending for Boston. PRO, Admiralty 51/693.