July 1777 Monday 7th
Cape Anne So 66 Wt 42 Leags at 2 AM Saw a fleet to NNE out reefs made Sail at ½ pt 5 made· Sign! for knowing each other which being Answd made Orpheus's Signl to Speak them bore away and Chaced a Brigg in the SSW at 8 made Orpheus's Signl to Chace WNW & WSW ½ pt made her Signl to Close at Noon light Airs and fair fleet in Sight and we in Chace Light Airs & fair Wr Cape Anne So 84 W at 3 PM fired 6 Shot to bring too the Chace ½ pt retook the Brigg Wm & Anne from Port au Port [Oporto] for Peters borough2 Joined Company the Milford & Convoy brot too at 7 in 1st & 2d reefs
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/4112.
2. Edward Howe, master, sent to New York, Howe's Prize List, October 24, 1777, PRO, Admiralty 1/488, 67. The brig had been captured by the Massachusetts Navy brigantine Freedom on her homeward passage from France.
