Capt. Palmer, a New-Englandman, the other day, in a sloop of fourteen guns, four pounders, took a very large ship from Liverpoole, of fourteen double fortified sixes and six cohorns that will carry six round shot, well fitted and manned, and carried her into Martinico.2
1. Pennsylvania Evening Post, July 17, 1777.
2. Privateer sloop Fly, Captain Thomas Palmer.