May 1776 Fridy 17th
Remarks in Nantasket Road at 6 AM the Commodor Sent his Boat on Brd with Orders to go to Sea at ½ Past 6 AM Weigh'd and Came to Sail as Did the Milford, at ½ past 9 Boraway for the Light house Channel it Being Little Wind & a Strong Flood Tide at 11 the Commodor Sent a Boat to Order us in Again at Noon Anchored in Nantasket Road Saw a Transport taken by the Rebels2 First and Midl Modt and Hazy the Latr Calms and Cloudy at ½ past 3 PM Weigh'd and Came to Sail
1. PRO, Admiralty 52/1794. The Hope seems to have been rerigged from a brig sloop on or about this date.
2. The powder ship Hope taken by Washington's schooner Franklin.
