1. Capt. John Burnell, commander of Maryland privateer schooner Montgomery; Capt. William LeCraw, commander of the Massachusetts privateer schooner Black Snake.

2. On the confining of Offin Boardman and Richard Dale in the “black hole” of Mill Prison, see Journal of Dr. Jonathan Haskins, 9 Apr., above.

3. Long Prison, a two-story windowless structure along the north side of Mill Prison, where prisoners were housed. Cohen, Yankee Sailors, p. 36.

4. In his diary entry of 26 Apr., Charles Herbert writes: “For some months past we have thought it presumption to try to make our escape from prison by digging out, on account of there being traitors amongst us. An innocent man has borne the scandal of this a good while, but upon being told of it by a friend, he took no rest day or night until he had found the traitors, and upon examination we discovered them to be two negroes, a man and a boy. Accordingly, they were tied up and whipped—the boy was whipped by a boy, two dozen and a half lashes, on his bare back; and we thought it the man’s prerogative who had borne the blame of being a traitor and was innocent, to lay the stripes upon the negro man.” Herbert, Relic of the Revolution, p. 116.