Mount Desart [Is.] NbE ½ E 12 Lgs
at 1 AM saw a Sail to Windward Let all R[ee]fs out. Got up Top Gall^t Yards and gave Chace—D^o TK^d Ship—at 4 the Chace bore W ½ S 4 Miles—at 6 TK^d Ship—Chace Bore WNW at 11 Brot to & spoke y^e Chace proved to be a Brig laden with Wine from Madeira for New York—but in her Passage was taken by a Provincial Privateer¹ Sent 3 petty Officers & 10 Men on board the Brig to Conduct her to Halifax—Took a Mate and 6 other Americans out of her D^o made Sail to y^e Eastw^d with the Brig in Company

D^o. Bore N^o 22 E Dist 19 Lgs
First & mid parts fresh Breezes & Cloudy Latt^r P^rts. Hazy at 1 PM took the Brig in Tow—at 4 set Steering Sails at 8 took in D^o at 12 the Brig in tow