May 1778 Tuesday 5th
Riding at Single Anchor in Buzzard's Bay [off Naushon Island, Mass.]
at 5 AM made the Signal for our Tender to chace, at 10 she run a Schooner on Shore and burn'd her, People empd: occasionally.
Riding at Single Anchor in Buzzard's Bay
Fresh Breezes and fair Wr. arriv'd here & join'd Company his Majesty's Ship Sphynx[,] Haerlem Sloop,1 & two Transports with Troops from Rhode Island, weighd & came to Sail & work'd to the Eastd. at 8 came too with the Bt Br: in 9 fms. & veer'd to of a Cable, Robinson's Hole2 SbE, dist: 1 League,
D, UkLPR, Adm. 51/1017, part 6, fols. 240–41.
1. H.M. frigate Sphynx, Captain Alexander Graeme, commander; H.M. armed sloop Haerlem, Lt. John Knight, commander.
2. Robinsons Hole is the passage between Naushon and Pasque Is. in the Elizabeth Is.