The Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, Monday, June 8, 1778

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BOSTON, June 8.

Thursday last¹ arrived in Port a Prize Sloop,² mounting 6 carriage and 7 Swivel Guns, and had 25 Men, taken by the Eagle Privateer of this Port.³ The Sloop was own'd by one Whipple, late of Providence, (Rhode Island) a Tory, but now of Antigua; and had been successful in her Cruize before she came across the Eagle.

1. That is, June 4.

2. Antigua armed sloop Dolphin, Capt. James Hyland.

3. Massachusetts privateer brigantine Eagle, Capt. Elijah Luce. Eagle was captured on 16 May in the Leeward Is. by H.M. sloop tender Tartar. For more on its capture, see Journal of H.M.S. Portland, Capt. Thomas Dumaresq, 22 May, in NDAR 12: 424.

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1778 June 8

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American Theater, June 1 to August 15, 1778

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