March 1776 Sunday 3
West end Minagen [Monhagan] NW½N 5 or 6 Lgs at 6 A M Swayed up Topgallt Masts at 9 Close Reeft Fore Topsail at 10 A M 4 Sail ih Sight gave Chace out 2d Reef Topsails Light Breezes and fair Weather brot too Main Topsail to the Mast at 3 P M set Topgallt sails. 4 Sail in Sight which we judged to be Privateers the Hope Brig & Tryal Schooner in Chace of them lost off the Reel a Logg & 3 Lines at 11 P M saw a Sail to the Northwd gave Chace
Monday 4th
Isle [of] Shoals N W ½ N 5 or 6 Lgs at 1 A M spoke her the Schooner John from Baltimore bound to Cape Ann Laden with Flour2 Sent a Midn & 3 Men onboard her & took her hands out
Tuesdy 5
Cape Ann S W B S 6 or 7 Lgs at 4 A M Tack'd at 9 Saw a sail to the N E Let the Reefs out of the Topsails & Set Steering Sails at 10 In 1st & 2d Reef Topsails ½ past 10 came up with the Chace a Sloop from Philadelphia—3
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/546.
2. The John, Daniel Marchant, master, and Daniel Serjeant, owner, was sent into Boston. Her cargo was both flour and Indian corn, Shuldham's Prize List, April 24, 1776, PRO, Admiralty 1/484.
3. Ibid., the sloop Mary, Abner Lowell, master, and Benjamin Rogers, owner, from Philadelphia for Newburyport, with a cargo of flour, iron and steel. Sent into Boston.
