Moor'd in Nantasket Road
A M Read Prayers to the Ships Company
Mode & hazey Wear. P M Arrived here His Majs Ship Experiment, who Saluted me with 13 Guns; Do Return'd Eleven. At 8 sent the Experiments, & our Boats Mann'd & Arm'd, (with three Officers) to Attack a Privateer that was aground off Pudding Point, at 10 they came up with her, but found the Rebels had got her off, and another Privateer with her, which obligd they Boats to Retreat, as they kept up such a constant fire; Our Barge in Boarding One of them was overset & Lost wth 18 Ships Musquits, 18 Cutlesses, & 8 Pr of Pistols, together wth Cartouch Boxes &ca Compleat. Find Missing Lieut Josh Harris, Robt Socket, & Wm McFarlin, Seamen, And James [E]lling & Andw Sullivan Marines ー