Diary of Captain Frederick Mackenzie, British Army, June 12, 1778

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[Newport. Rhode Island]
12^th June—Very fine weather. Wind S.

The Pigot Galley¹ gave chace out of Seconnet² this Morning to a Snow which appeared to be coming in there, and about 7 o'Clock she struck without resistance. She was brought round into the harbour this Evening,³ and proves to be a French vessel from Bourdeaux to Bedford, laden with dry goods and Salt. She mistook the Seconet passage for Bedford.⁴

Mackenzie, Diary 1: 300.

1. H.M. armed galley Pigot, Lt. Henry Edwyn Stanhope, commander.

2. Sakonnet Passage.

3. H.M. frigate Cerberus and the armed boats of the fleet assisted in escorting the French snow to Newport. Journal of H.M. frigate Flora, UkLPR, Adm. 51/360, fol. 159.

4. That is, New Bedford, Massachusetts.

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1778 June 12

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American Theater, June 1 to August 15, 1778

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