Septr 1776 Sunday 8
Cape Cod So 73 Wt 49 Leagues at 1 A M handed Mizn T. Sail Close Reeft Topsails Handed Fore and Mn T. Sails at 5 saw a Sail to the So wd made Sail and gave Chace at 6 saw another Sail to Windwd at 9 came up with the Chace Brot too and sent the Boat onboard to take possession Proved to be an English Ship.Bd to London taken of[f] Cape Race By Amer Privateers Recd onbd the Prisoners2
1. PRO, Admiralty 52/1865.
2. The ship John, Captain John Hunter, taken August 30 by the Massachusetts privateer schooner Independence. The Halifax Vice Admiralty Court returned the John to her master after he "offer'd to pay the one 8th Salvage to the Captors in behalf of the King." Vice Admiralty Register, vol. 5, N.S. Arch.