July 1777 Sunday 27th
Chs Town Light-house N 57° 0"W: 7 Leagues at 6 AM Tacked the Lighthouse WbN 3 Leagues, at 9 brot too, Recd from the Brune and Galatea 3 Hogsds and 3 half Hogsds water, and Supplied the Brune with 35 Galls Rum, 308 pieces Pork, 7 B 4 Qt Oatmeal and 691 lbs Flour; And the Galatea with 1 Barrel Sour Crout and 50 pounds of Portable Soup; at this time Scarce a Biskit in the Ship fit to eat: at Noon fine weather. Saw a Sail to the Eastward, Gave chace in Co with the Brune and Galatea. Fresh breezes and clear. at 1 PM in chace, at 2 fired 4 nine pounders Shotted at the chace, came up with and brought her too, she proved the two Brothers Schooner from New Providence, to New York, taken by an American privateer,2 took charge of her. Fired one as a Signal, and two Nine pounders Shotted at the Prize to bear down; at 10 bore away and parted company with the Brune and Galatea with the Prize in Co.
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/688.
2. "Taken by the Valentine Privateer Belonging to Charlestown", Journal of H.M.S. Galatea, PRO, Admiralty 51/4197.