Receivd a Second Lieut from Parris1 Do Capt Palm Return2 This Day, pleasent Weather, the People imployed in geting the Ballest on Board. John Hilger recd 12 lashes on his Back with a Cat for cutting a French-man with a Scraper.
D, MH-H, Samuel Tucker Papers (fMS Am 812), vol. 6 (Log Book of Boston).
1. This was Lt. Musco Livingston. On his appointment, see John Adams to Capt. Samuel Tucker, 29 Apr., below.
2. Capt. Richard Palmes, who commanded the Continental marines on Boston. On his mission to Paris, see Tucker to the American Commissioners in France, 1 Apr., above.