March 76 At a Single Anchor off the [Tybee] Light House.
Satury 30th AM punished Josh De Lahoe with a dozen lashes for drunkeness took up the stream Anchor, Hoisted the Longboat in & lashed her, made the tamer's Signal for the Captain; lost in sounding i:he River a Hand lead & line, put on board the Volante Prize Schooner,2 to Clear the Ship being very much Cumber'd, to carry to Boston under our Convoy & likewise to water her, [torn] Hhds, staves fifteen hundred & Sixty, five hundred & forty pieces of Heading, water Barrells Eighteen, Hhds eight full hoop'd with Eight Hundred & Sixty loose Hoops. Fresh Breezes & Hazy wr at ½ past 1 weighed & made sail, in Company His Majys Sloop Tamer St Lawrence Schooner, 2 Transports, 3 prizes and several Merchant Vessels, at 3 P M shortned said & brot too Mn Sl to the Mast, at ½ past 4 made sail, Tybee Light House WbS 5 Leags at 6 made the St Lawrence's Signal to keep astern of the fleet & a signal for the Convoy to keep together, th('.: Convoy in Company
Sunday 31st Tybee S78°West distt 26 Leags A M in Co as before, at 8 lay too & Hoisted the Cutter out,
made the Rittenhouse's signal to speak her, ½ past parted Co
the Merchant Vessels, made the St Lawrence's Signal for an officer, at noon the Tamer, St Lawrence Whitby, Symetry & 3 prizes in Company. First part Modte Breezes & Hazy wr Middle & Latter fresh Breezes & Hazy at I P M made sail, the St Lawrence parted Co with us, at 6 the Convoy in Co made the Tamer's Signal to keep a stern of the Fleet, shortened sail for the fleet to k Handed the Mizn eep up, in Co as ab TS ove; at 9