November 1777 Thursday 20th
In Mocksack [Mobjack] Bay Ditto Wear. [Moderate & fine] the Barge went in chace of a Sloop, and took her, with 12 hogsheads of Tobacco onboard.1
In Mocksack Bay Ditto Wear. got the prize alongside, took her Cargo out; and cut her up for fire Wood.
D, UkLPR, Adm. 51/311.
1. A sloop, not named, Joseph Lance, master and owner, of Virginia, a crew of three seamen, from Yeocomico River to Suffolk, Va., with tobacco, taken in Chesapeake Bay, burned. Howe's Prize List, 23 Apr. 1778, UkLPR, Adm. 1/488, 239.