1. Capt. Thomas Thompson, commanding Continental Navy frigate Raleigh. 

2. During the cruise to France, Raleigh and Alfred made the following known captures: on 2 Sept. 1777, snow Nanny, Anthony Hooper, master (See NDAR 10: 116 and n, 242, 847,930, 939, 940-41, 946); on 28 Sept. 1777, brigantine Sally, Edward Marshall, master (See NDAR 10: 875, 939, 946, 948, 1001); on 28 Sept. 1777, ship Jamaica, David Watt, master (See NDAR 10: 875, 877, 900, 912–13, 939, 941, 947); and also on 28 Sept. 1777, ship Ann Susanna [Anna Susannah], John Taylor, master (See NDAR 10: 875, 877, 900, 912–13, 941, 947). Departing L'Orient on 29 Dec. 1777 on their return voyage to America, the squadron reportedly made the following prizes: brig Eagle, J. Morgan, master, captured on 30 Dec. 1777 on a voyage from Yarmouth bound to Genoa and Leghorn but escaped in the night (See NDAR 11: 1046 and n.; and The Independent Chronicle, and the Universal Advertiser [Boston], 9 Apr., below); and an unidentified sloop with wine taken off Senegal Bar, Africa. This sloop was probably the Granville. On 2 Feb. Capt. Thomas Thompson signed seven seamen from sloop Granville on board Raleigh. These were the last entries he made in the muster book of the Continental Navy frigate. (See The Independent Chronicle, and the Universal Advertiser [Boston], 9 Apr., and the Muster Book of Continental Navy Frigate Raleigh, Appendix A, below). 

3. Continental Navy ship Alfred, Capt. Elisha Hinman, commander, was captured by H.M, frigate Ariadne and H.M. ship-rigged sloop-of-war Ceres on 9 Mar. near Barbados. For more on this engagement, see NDAR 11: 575,624, 638, 647, 684, 708, 769, 811 and n.; and The Independent Chronicle, and the Universal Advertiser (Boston), 9 Apr., James Warren to John Gill, Printer of The Continental Journal, and Weekly Advertiser (Boston), 20 Apr., and Officers of Continental Navy Frigate Raleigh to the Printers of The Independent Chronicle, and the Universal Advertiser (Boston), 2 May, all below. 

4. Continental Navy ship Ranger, Capt. John Paul Jones, commander. 

5. Capt. Thomas Dalling, commanding New Hampshire privateer brigantine General Sullivan, which mounted 14 carriage guns, manned by a crew of 100 seamen, and was owned by Eliphalet Ladd and others, of Exeter, N.H. It was commissioned on 13 Sept. 1777. DNA, PCC, item 196, vol. 6, p. 43 (M247, roll 203). General Sullivan was returning from a cruise in the West Indies from Jan. through Mar. 1778. See NDAR 11: 423, 739.