[1777 October] 2 Thursday. AM Cloudy & Rain PM Fair Saw a Sail & Stood for her.—At ½ past 11 gave 3 Bow-Chaces upon which She brought too & we took her. She was a Snow from Newfoundland with near 3000 Quintals of Fish called Eastly Capt.1
D, MSaE. Journal was kept by the ship's surgeon.
1. "The Eastley, Anstill, from Newfoundland to Oporto, was taken three days after parting the convoy, 25 leagues from Oporto, by the Cromwell privateer, of 16 six pounders and 100 men, and sent for America." London Packet, 5-7 Nov. 1777.
