Master's Log of H.M. Brig Hope, March 31, 1776

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Remark's on bd the Hope Saturdy the 30th March 1776

Beackers I [P.M.] Fresh Breezes and Squaly with Drizling Rain at ½ Isl NW Past Saw a Sail Standing to the Wt ward made Sail & Chaced 4 Miles hir, Came up wt the Chace, Proved to be the Betsy Schooner

from Virginia wt Inden Corn Bound to Selam, took Charge of hir, at 3 made Sail

Remark's on bd the Hope Sundy the 31st March 1776 8 [A.M.] Saw Boston Light house SW Dist 8 Leags boraway for Do as Did the Prize Schooner. Came to in Nantasket Road

wt the Sl Br in 5 fm as Did the Prize found laying here his Majesty's Ship Renown & Dispatch Schooner & two Transports.

1. PRO, Admiralty 52/1823.

2. The prize schooner, having arrived after the evacuation of Boston, was sent to Halifax for condemnation. Her master was Henry White, and the Vice Admiralty Register, N. S. Arch., records she "was going into some one Port or place in some one of his Majestys Colonies now in open Rebellion, to Trade."

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1776 March 31

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Volume 4

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American Theatre from February 19, 1776, to April 17, 1776