June 1778 Sunday 7th
At Single Anchor in Seaconnet Passage.1
at 8 AM weigh'd & came to Sail, at 9 saw a Sail in the SW Qr. made sail and gave Chace, at 11 Tack'd Ship, at Noon the Chace bore SSE.
Seaconnet Rocks NNW Dist: 3 Leagues. Fresh Breezes with Rain,
at 4 PM abreast of Catyhunck,2 & saw the Chace going thro' Quick's [Ho]le,3 sent 2 Boats mann'd & arm’d after her, at 5 the Boats took the Chace which prov'd a Schooner from Guadaloupe bound to Salem,4 at 7 came too with the Best Br: in 7 fms. Water, abreast of Robinson's Hole,5 put a petty Officer and 6 Men on board the Prize,
D, UkLPR, Adm. 51/1017, part 6, fols. 244-45.
1. Sakonnet Passage, R.I.
2. Cuttyhunk I.
3. Quick's Hole is between Nashawena I. and Pasque I. in the Elizabeth Is.
4. Schooner Sea Flower, Jacob Clark, master, owned by Joseph White, Joseph Lambert, Miles Greenwood and Henry White, all of Salem, 60 tons burthen, crew of 7, carrying molasses and sugar, taken in Buzzards Bay and sent into Halifax, where it was libeled on 16 June in the Vice Admiralty Court of Nova Scotia and condemned as a lawful prize of Unicorn on 6 July. Howe's Prize List, 30 Oct. 1778, UkLPR, Adm. 1/488, fols. 486–87; Gambier's Prize List, 20 Dec. 1778, The London Gazette, 2–6 Feb. 1779; CaNSHP, Vol. 496, Vice Admiralty Court of Nova Scotia Register, vol. 6 (1777–1782), p. 141.
5. Robinson's Hole is between Pasque I. and Naushon I. in the Elizabeth Is.
