Cape Ann SW Remarks on bd the Hope Fridy the 15th March 1776 6 or 7 Leagues
Fresh Breezes and Clear, at ½ past 5 [A.M.] Saw a Sail to the Wt ward, out all Reefs up T G yards and Give Chace 8 Tack'd 9 Light airs and Vrable hoisted a Boat out and, Sent hir on Brd the Chace, found hir to be the Schooner Buscowen from N.o Carilina with Indian Corn took Charge of hir,2
1. PRO, Admiralty 52/1823.
2. Ibid., according to the log of March 17th, in approaching the Boston lighthouse, "the Prize Ran on the Harding Rocks and. was lost."
