Journal of H.M.S. Cerberus, Captain John Symons, October 3, 1777

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[October] 1777
Friday 3

S^o. End of Block IslandWbN 4 Miles
at 6 AM bro^t tooat 9 took the Sternmost Schooner in Towat 12 Convoy in C^o:a Strang Sail in Sight to Windward

Block IslandN 2° 0 W15 Leagues
Fresh Breezes and fairCast off the Schooner & gave Chace to the S^l. to windw^d: at 4 PM fired four 9 P^drs: at the Chace at [5] boarded the Chace a Schooner belonging to Providence from S^t. Eustatia bound to Bedford¹

D, UkLPR, Adm. 51/181.

1. Schooner Dick & John, Jehu Pain, master, owned by Ste. Whipple & Co., from Providence to Bedford, with coffee, tea, Geneva [liquor] & canvas, taken on 3 Oct. off Block Island, sent to New York. Howe's Prize List, 30 Oct. 1778, UkLPR, Adm. 1/ 488, 489. She cleared from Providence on 3 June for St. Eustatius with a cargo of codfish, oak staves, hoops and tobacco and was of 20 tons burthen with no guns. R-Ar, Maritime Papers, Outward an Inward Entries (1776-87), 52.

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1777 October 3

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American Theatre from October 1, 1777, to December 31, 1777

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