April 1776 Moor'd off Sandy Hook The Light House EBN Distance 1 Mile
Thursday 18th AM came in & Acnhd here the Brigg Amazone 2 from Guardalupe nothing in but Ballast, Sent in by the Shuldham Tender.
PM compleated our Water Cleard Hawse, employed Watering the Tender and Prizes 3
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/693.
2. The brig Amazon, John Clark, master, from Guadeloupe, "Said to be bound to Saint Peter[s]." She was sent to Halifax, Shuldham's Prize List, May 23, 1776, PRO, Admiralty 1/484.
3. Ibid., two other prizes not mentioned in the journal are included at that time in the same list; the sloop Diana, Jonathan Haddon, master and owner, from Barnegat to Amboy, with a cargo of cedar rails; and the sloop Industry, William Roach, master, and James Wells, owner, bound from Barnegat to Stonington, Connecticut, with lumber. The Diana was listed as taken April 15, and the Industry, April 17, 1776. Both were sent to Halifax.
