"It is with the utmost concern that I inform you the fate of the gallant Captain Weeks—A French vessel arrived here the other day, brought in the only man1 who was saved out of the whole crew of the Reprisal.—In a gale of wind which happened the 1st of November2 (at which time they were three days past the Banks of New foundland) the ship was pooped with three heavy seas, which carried her down—This man and one more floated on the gangway ladder until the 3d, when his commrade through weakness dropped from it—He was that day picked up by the Frenchman who brought him in here—And he now goes for America with Capt. Moore."3
Dunlap's Maryland Gazette; or the Baltimore General Advertiser, 3 Feb. 1778.
1. Reprisal's cook, Nathan Jaquays. Abraham Whipple to John Paul Jones, 14 June 1778. MiU-C, Abraham Whipple Letter Book.
2. Pennsylvania Packet (Lancaster), 11 Feb. 1778, quotes the same letter, but gives 1 October as the date of the sinking.
3. Thomas Moore, master of the Duc de Choiseul.
