Septr 1775 Friday 1
Clay Head S S E 5 or 6 Miles
P M Stop't a Sloop with Horses from New London,2 at 4 weigh'd and came to sail.
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/804.
2. The Black Joak, John Mackibbin, master, the property of Nathaniel Shaw, Jr. She was bound to Jamaica with horses, onions, and oats, and was condemned and sold in Boston in mid-September. Graves's Conduct, Prize List, MassHS Transcript. See also Shaw to Mackibbin, July 12, 1775.