Sunday, April 7th,
The schooner Dragon arrives from Barrington, etc., with about 6 tons of hay, and a few potatoes. John Coffin, the master, reports that he saw 4 privateers there, Manley, commander of one of them. They left Barrington last Thursday, and stood out to sea, the wind to the N .N .E.
1. Innis, ed., Perkins' Diary, I, 117.