May 1778 Saturday 9
Do [Cape Henlopen] NWbW 104 leagues
at 5 AM Saw Do. Ship to the Sard, gave chace at ½ past 8 came up with Her she proved to be from Do. place [No Carolina] with do. cargo [Tobacco],1 took possession of them.2 & Made Sail. Prizes in company.
Do [Cape Henlopen] NWbW½W 121 Leagues
D, UkLPR, Adm. 51/227, part 3.
1. Ship Peggy, Elisha Lathrop, master, owned by W. Hubbard & Co., on a voyage to Amsterdam with a cargo of tobacco. Howe's Prize List, 30 Oct. 1778, UkLPR, Adm. 1/488, fols. 483–84.
2. On the other prize mentioned here, the brig Litchfield, see Journal of H.M. frigate Daphne, 8 May, above.
