Sunday, Feb. 18th, ー ... They send on board the Senegal for the Doctor I hear the King's vessel, mentioned above, 2 is the schooner Halifax, Capt Quorme[?], from Boston, and the prize from Cape Resue, 3 Capt. [Daniel] Turner. I am informed that they bring news from Boston that the American army at Quebec is totally defeated, General Montgomery killed, Col. Arnold wounded and taken prisoner, and the whole army either killed or taken. That the army at Cambridge are deserted all to six thousand men. That Lord Dunmore has burnt the town of Norfolk, in Virginia, and that Capt. [George] Dawson has sunk one of the American armed vessels, a brigantine. 4
1. Innis, ed., Perkins' Diary, 112.
2. Perkins had commented that two topsail schooners were beating into the harbor on the 16th, but had not yet heard their identity, although one was supposed to be in the King's service, and the other a prize.
3. The prize was the schooner King Solomon, with 850 quintals of fish, bound to Bilboa. Perkins says she was from Cape Resue; Shuldham's Prize List notes, Cape Bisore, and the journal of the Halifax says Cape Persue. The port from which she hailed was probably Cape Rosier, in Penobscot Bay.
4. Lieutenant George Dawson, in H.M. Brig Hope, had attacked and driven Washington's schooner Hancock into the North River, at Scituate, where she ran aground, but subsequently was restored to the service.
