May 1778 Sunday 24th.
white Point1 WBS 3 mile at 8 AM saw a Sail chased her Came up with the Chase fird some shot to Make her strick She provd the Bunkers hill Privatar2 from Boston of 7 Guns 25 men out 6 days Exchang’d the Priseners at 11 the Buckeram3 join’d Company
White head N 3 or 4 Leags. Very fine Pleasant wr. Bore up for Canso at 4 PM Anchor’d in Do with the Sm. Br. in 13 fm. Veer’d to ⅓ of a Cable found Riding here His Majestys Brig Cabbot with the Convoy for Quebec
D, UkLPR, Adm. 51/4220. The journal was kept by Lt. William Hancock Kelly.
1. That is Whitehead, Nova Scotia.
2. Massachusetts privateer schooner Bunker Hill, Capt. Isaac Cobb, was commissioned on 4 and 5 May 1778 and was owned by James Lowell, Silas Atkins, and others, all of Boston. M-Ar, Revolutionary Rolls Collection, vol. 5, pp. 90, 93; Mass. Archives Collection, vol. 139, p. 170; vol.168, p. 279.
3. Schooner tender Buckram. UkLPR, Adm. 52/1794.
