This Day, pleasent weather, sold all 3 of the Prizes1 to Mr. Puchebergh of Lorient,2 the half that belong’d to the Crew to receive & devide amoung them, the other to be pd. to Mr. Schweighauser. Conl: Agent at Nantee3
D, MH-H, Samuel Tucker Papers (MS Am 812), vol. 6 (Log Book of Boston).
1. The prizes were brig Elizabeth, brig Britannia, and an unidentified Scottish brig carrying a cargo of fish.
2. In a letter to the American Commissioners in France of 24 Aug. 1778, Musco Livingston, formerly an officer serving with Boston, charged that Puchelberg cheated Tucker in the price he gave for the prizes and their cargoes. PPAmP, Benjamin Franklin Papers.
3. That is, Jean-Daniel Schweighauser, and Nantes, France.
