Remarkes On Thursday Septr 5. 1776 a 5 A M Came to Sail in Compeny With 5 Sail a 11 Come to Ancker at Tarplain [Tarpaulin] Cove Two Boats Came on Borde With Solders Histed out the Boate and Sent on Shore To Fill Sum Warter all Well on Bord2
1. Independence Journal, RIHS. Journal ends this date.
2. Independent Chronicle, September 19, 1776: "Capt Jabez Whipple, in a Privateer of Providence went up the east passage last Thursday, with a fine large prize ship, bound from St. Vincent, with between 4 and 5 hundred hogsheads of sugar, 100 puncheons of rum and 400 casks of indigo; also a brig loaded with sugar and rum, and a sloop loaded with molasses."