Baltimore 21st September 1776
[Extract]
...Wm Woolsey is Come to town a few Days Since, has Taken one large Ship in partnership with a Road Island privateer. also on the 7th Inst he took Another Ship him Self but no Accot. yet of there Arrival he fears from the winds we have had that the last is gone to New England, the first was Ordered to Dartmouth the first Ship Was Called the St James. Capt Edwards the last Ship was Called the Caroline, Capt Denness so Keep a good Look out for them.2 we talk of Sending her out again Soon it will not take much to fit her out...
1. Woolsey & Salmon Letter Book, LC.
2. The Maryland privateer schooner Harlequin, six guns and twenty-one men, William Woolsey, commander, Papers CC (Ships' Bonds Required for Letters of Marque and Reprisal), 196, VII, 14, NA. The St. James was taken in company with the Rhode Island privateer sloop General Greene. The Caroline arrived in Chincoteague, Virginia, was condemned and offered for sale through an advertisement dated Williamsburg, October 5, printed in the Pennsylvania Gazette, October 16, 1776.
