On board H.M. Sloop Swan at Sandy Hook
Friday Septr 13th Noon Thermometer 70. P M passd up the Galetea Captn [Thomas] Jordan from Plymouth in nine weeks with Two Prize Ships retaken from the Pirates also a Brigantine and Schooner.2 The Ships were from the west Indies. Captn Jordan came out after a Fleet with British and foreign Troops had passd through the [English] Channell.
1. Thomas Moffat's Diary, LC.
2. The ships from the West Indies were Sword Fish, S. Kingsley, master, from Cape St. Nicolas Mole, and the Heart of Oak, E. Howell, master, from Cape François. The brigantine was the William, Joshua Bunker, from Bordeaux with gunpowder and small arms; the schooner, Dolphin, John Parker, from Philadelphia for Bermuda with flour and corn. Howe's Prize List, March 31, 1777, PRO, Admiralty 1/487.
