June 1778 Sunday 7th
[Cape look out NNWt distance about 5 Leagues]
at Noon the Prize in Company,—1
Fresh Breezes & Clear Wr: at 5 PM saw 3 Sail of Vessels in Shore of us made Sail & gave Chace & sent the Prize in Chace of the Leewd: most Sloop which She took proved to be a Sloop from Ockerccock Sound2 to Burmuda laden with Flour & Hams, call'd the Molly's Adventure3 ½ pt: 6 Tacked Ockerccock4 NWt: distance about 3 or 4 Miles at 10 Tacked to the Eastwd:
D, UkLPR, Adm. 51/61, part 1, fol. 31.
1. Sloop Fancy, which was captured on 4 June. See Ariel's journal entry of 4 June, above.
2. That is, Pimlico Sound.
3. Sloop Molly's Adventure, Richard Morgan, master, Witney & Slone owners, sent to New York. Howe's Prize List, 30 Oct. 1778, UkLPR, Adm. 1/488, fols. 487–88.
4. That is, Ocracoke I., North Carolina.
