April 1778
Monday 6
Do. (Cape Sable] N53W Distance 31 Lgs.
AM at 5 Set the Fore Sail at 6 Sat Main Topsl. at 9 Sat Fore Topsail at 11 Out all Reefs up T. Gallt. Yards & sat the Sails at Noon saw a Sail to the Northd. gave Chace
Do. N12W dist 25 Lgs.
First Parts Light Breezes & Cloudy, Middle & latter Mod & Do Intermix'd with foggs at 3 PM Set Steering Sails at 4 Came up with the Chace, she prov'd A brig from Cork bound to Antigua with Provisions, had been in Possession of the Rebels 5 Weeks1 took out the Prisoners & sent 2 petty Officers & 5 Men onbd. her at 8 took her in tow & made Sl.
D, UkLPR, Adm. 51/118, part 3, fols. 100-101.
1. For more on the brig, Lord Dungannon, see Extract of a Letter from Corke, 25 May, below. It had been captured on 5 Mar, by two Massachusetts privateers, the ship Cumberland, James Collins, commanding, mounting 20 guns, owned by Paul Dudley Sargent and others, of Boston, and brigantine Fanny, Capt. John Kendrick, mounting 16 guns, owned by Adam Babcock and Archibald Blair, of Bedford in Dartmouth, Mass. M-Ar, Revolutionary Rolls Collection, vol. 5, pp. 112, 115, 270; Mass. Archives Collection, vol. 166, pp. 123, 420; vol. 167, pp. 45, 226.
