May 1776 Wednesday 15th
At Single Anchor off Point Au Platoun AM. The Schooner returned and inform'd us that she had got the Gaspee Brig, off, and sent her down to Quebec. People Employ'd occasionally. Mode and Cloudy Weather. PM. Came on board a Deserter from the Rebels. People Employ'd Variously.2
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/336.
2. Ibid., the Surprize, on orders from Captain Charles Douglas of the Isis, dropped down to Quebec on May 19, and sailed from there May 22, bound for a station off the Island of Bic in the lower St. Lawrence. She remained there until June 25, and then sailed to join the Newfoundland squadron.