Boston, September 8.
Thursday last arrived at a safe port the richest prize 'tis said, taken during the war; having on board 247 bales of the first and second cloths besides a great quantity of other valuable articles. She was bound from London for Leghorn, and taken by Captain John Lee, of Newbury-port.1
1. Prize was the Dillon taken by Lee in the Fancy, Independent Chronicle, Boston, September 18, 1777. See also Volume 8, 795-96 (document should be dated 26 August).