May 1778 Sunday 10th
Cape Henlopen Wt 15 So. 274 Ms
AM at 9 got up Top Gallant Yards at 11 Saw a sail in the SW—made sail and chaсed saild 48: 30 Wt: 8 Miles at Noon fine Weather.
Nantucket Sand1 SWbSt: 67 Mils
Fresh Breezes still in Chace PM at 5 fired 6 shott at the Chace ½ pt: 6 Brought too the Chace the Portsmouth Reble Privateer of 22 Guns 150 Men Thoms: Roach Commander 4 Days from Boston But had taken Nothing.2 Empd: getting onbd: the Prisoners sent 26 men onboard the Prize. at 12 Wore Ship & Close Reefed the Topsl—
D, UkLPR, Adm. 52/1964, fol. 127.
1. That is, Nantucket Shoals.
2. New Hampshire privateer ship Portsmouth, Thomas Roach, commander, owned by “John Langdon & Willm. Gardner Merchts all of Portsmo in New Hampshire.” See Continental Bond for New Hampshire Privateer Ship Portsmouth, 22 Apr., above.
