[On board the transport ship Oxford] [May 29 to June 11, 1776]
we kept company with each other 17 days [sic 14 days], when we got near Nantucket, we fell in with Lord Howes Fleet2 in the fog, we steered different courses, and before we got out of sight of Capt. [Nicholas] Biddle the prisoners rose on the ship and took her from us, and they put one Canada (formerly Mate of the Ship,) in Command. I could not blame them, for I would do the same.
1. Trevett's Journal, NHS.
2. This was H.M.S. Mercury and her convoy, not Lord Howe's fleet.
