Nants July 1. 1777
[Extract] Honble Gentlemen
Mr Montaudouin set of[f] this Morning with my Letters relative to the Captures made by Capts Weeks Johnson & Nicholson Since which the prize master who has come in here has arrived to town2 there is but one prize arrived at painbeof & her Cargo is not known her papers being distroyed she has Cork & hides betwen Decks but we are yet unacquainted with what is in her Lower hold — I hear a Cruzer is arrived at St Malo if so think it must be Weeks Nicholson has not yet appeared but he Escaped from the Ship that pursued Capt Johnson & Weeks the Commander not thinking him worth waiting for when there was so much better game a head the prize Master also tells me that they have made and Distroy'd 28 prizes 14 they Sunk in St Georges Channel,3 another they gave the prisoners and sent her away with about 90 of them about 38 of their prisoners have entered into our Service. . .
1. Jonathan Williams Letter Book, January-August, 1777, YUL.
2. Henry Lawrence, Continental Navy brig Lexington, was prize master of the captured snow Friendship, Clark, Lambert Wickes, 275.
3. Prizes taken were less than reported by the prize master. See Williams to Robert Morris, July 3.
