May 1778 Tuesday 26th.
Secunnet1 No. 3 Miles (AM) at 4 Rhode Isld. Lt:house2 NNW 3 or 4 Leags. workg up for do. at 10 fired 6 four Pds. at 4 Rebel whale Boats join’d us 2 Galley’s3 from Newport at Noon Light house NBE 1 Mile
[Rhode Island Light house NBE 1 Mile] Do. [Light airs and Calm] wth. rain PM anchd. in Rhode Isld. Harbr.4 in 7 fms. of[f] Scapgoat Isld.5 found here H: M: Ship Nonsuch & Strumbolo fireShip6
D, UkLPR, Adm. 52/1789, part 9, fol. 269.
1. That is, Sakonnet Passage.
2. Lighthouse at Beaver Tail Point on Conanicut I.
3. H.M. armed galleys Pigot and Spitfire. See Diary of Capt. Frederick Mackenzie, 26 May, above.
4. That is, Newport harbor.
5. That is, Goat I.
6. H.M.S. Nonsuch, Capt. Samuel Reeve, commander; H.M. fireship Strombolo, Comdr. Samuel Wittewronge Clayton, commander.
