Octr 1777 Friday 3rd
Moored off New York.
AM at 4 Manned 4 flatt Bottomed Boats with 44 Men & 5 petty Officers, which went on duty up the North River, Empd: Stowing the Hold & Woulding the Foremast, Middle & Latter parts Ditto Weather [Moderate & fair]—Ditto Weather [Moderate & fair]. Employed about the Riging & Hold, at 1 PM Cleared Hawse Received 19 Casks of Butter, Arrived here our Prize taken by us the 29 July. last, from the Americans.1
D, UkLPR, Adm. 51/331, 101.
1. Snow Mary of Bideford, England, Joseph Atkins, prize master, which had been taken by the Massachusetts privateer schooner True Blue, Richard Stiles, commander, off Terceira, Azores on 28 July. Rivington's New-York Gazette, 4 Oct. 1777. She was libelled on 3 Nov. in the Vice Admiralty Court of New-York and was ordered appraised as a recapture on 24 Dec. Mary's cargo of flour was condemned as a lawful prize and ordered sold on 23 Jan. 1778. Minutes of the Vice Admiralty Court of New York, UkLPR, H.C.A. 49/93, 98,166, 212.
