Septr 1777 Monday 22d 6[AM]
Cape Cod S33W — 8 Lges Saw 2 Sail one to the SE and one to Windard gave Chase to the Weathermt one our prize Schooner fired a Shot at the Chase and brought her too wich proved to be a Greenland Ship2 belonging to Leeth taken by the Tarter Rebble Privateer
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Spoke his Majestys Ship Scharbourough
1 [PM]
Fresh Gale and Squally Wr HM Ship Scarborough in Compy The Privateer Schooner [Buckram] and Greenland Ship went for halifax
1. PRO, Admiralty 52/1699.
2. Royal Bounty, taken by the Massachusetts privateer ship American Tartar near the Orkney Islands in July, was ordered sold and her cargo condemned as lawful prize on December 2, 1777, N.S. Arch., vol. 496, Vice Admiralty Register, vol. 6 (1777-1782), 69-74.
