Tuesday May 5th. [Bordeaux]
This Morning Peter Cavey a Midshipman get over the side to were the Boat a Stern, taking hold of a rope which he thought was made fast but was not fell over Board, & tho all Means was used to save him, was drowned.—1 The people imployed on Necessary Duty as usual.
D, MH-H, Samuel Tucker Papers (fMS Am 812), vol. 6 (Log Book of Boston).
1. For a different version of the events resulting in the drowning of Peter Cavey, see Journal of Lieutenant William Jennison, Continental Marines, this date, below.
