Sir
This day I fell in with the Brig King George John Watmough Master from Belfast for New York six weeks out1 I have sent you all her Invoices & Papers. (I took a Brig yesterday from New York for Newfoundland)2 I took this Brig about half past Eleven O clock this Morning when we saw two sail as far to the westward as we could see from Masthead. I have spoke with one of them a Schooner from Newbury Daniel Parsons Commander3 & he pretends to claim part of the prize but we mannd the prize and sent her away and then tackd for said Sails & stood for them two hours before we spoke the Schooner. the Capt. of the prize says he never saw them untill after he struck to me. however I suppose your Honor will see Justice done & that is all I want—I am making the best of my way home. Best with Respect Sir [&c.]
Jno. Fisk4
At Sea Octor. 8. 1777
Lattd 40.00 N Longd 63.00 W
L, M-Ar, Mass. Archives Collection, vol. 152 (Massachusetts Board ofWar Letters), 391. Addressed: "To/The Honble. Saml. Phips Savage Esqr./President of the Honbl. Board of/War in/Boston." Docketed: "Capt Fisks Lettr/Octr 8th. 1777."
1. Brigantine King George, 160 tons burthen, was libelled by Fisk on 30 Oct. in the Maritime Court of the Middle District for trial on 25 Nov. at Boston. Independent Chronicle (Boston), 30 Oct. 1777.
2. Brigantine Catharine, John Gardner, master, 200 tons burthen, was libelled by Fisk on 30 Oct. in the Maritime Court of the Middle District for trial on 25 Nov. at Boston. Ibid.
3. Massachusetts privateer schooner Gloriosa, Daniel Parsons, commander, mounting 8 guns with a crew of 45 seamen, was commissioned on I7 Sept. 1777 and was owned byJoseph Laughton of Boston and John Tracy of Newburyport. M-Ar, Revolutionary Rolls, vol. 5, 357, 358.
4. Fisk commanded the Massachusetts Navy brigantine Massachusetts.
