Deposition of Peter Ramsey Mariner, Late Master of the Brigantine E1izabeth Testifieth and Saith on or about the 21st of March A D 1776 in Boston in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay your Deponent then and there received verbal orders from Admiral Shuldham to go On Board said Brigantine Elizabeth and take the Charge of her and Navigate her to Halifax, and on Friday the 29th of said March Between the Hours of three & four oClotk P M I came to Sail with said Brigantine under Convoy of His Majestys Ship Niger, and Sabbath Evening about six or seven oClock I parted from said Convoy, and proceeded on my Voyage to Halifax, and about Four or Five oClock P M on the nekt Tuesday kollowing Commodore John Manly in the Continental Arm'd Schooner Hancock, Came up, and Gave me a Broadside, and I Returned the Eire with Small Arms, Capt Danl Waters in the Continental Arm'd Schooner and Capt John Ayres in the Continental Arm'd Schooner Came up when I struck to the Commodore, and your Deponent then saw no other vessel besides the hefore mentioned, and your Deponent in said Brigantine was Brot by the Commodore and Capt Waters into the River of Piscataqua, and further saith notー

Portsmo August 20th 1776