Corunna 24th September 1777.
[Extract]
No 64.
My Lord.
I have the Honor to acquaint Your Lordship with the Arrival in this Port of the Schooner Hawke an American Privateer mounting fourteen Guns commanded by Jeremiah Hilbert from Newbery in Massachusets Bay,2 which Place she left the 26th July, having taken in her Passage and sent to Bilboa for Sale, the following Vessels.
The Brig Wensley dale, Atkinson Wynne from Zante to Liverpool with Currants, taken the 20th Aug:
The Brig Thomas & Mary, James Forrestal from Newfoundland to Bilboa with Fish, taken the 12th Instant.3
The Brig Nancy, William Payne with Wine and Fruit from Malaga to Dublin, taken the 19th Instant.
. . .the Privateer commanded by Cunningham is gone on a Cruize. . . .
[Endorsed] R 17 October Sent to the Admiralty