Sept 1776 Tuesday 24th
Barbadoes Wt Soly Dist. 62 Leagues At 5 AM bore away & set studg Sls at 1 1 Bent 'Bt Br Cable Fresh Breezes & Cloudy bent the small Br Cable at 12 PM fired 3 Gs & made the Sigl for the Convoy to bring too on the other Tack Wore ship & brt too on the other Tack
Wednesday 25th
at Sunrise Barbadoes Needham's Point NWBW, the End of the Isld NNW off shore 5 or 6 Lgs at 10 AM fired a Gun a Sigl for the Convoy to Anchor at Noon Anchd in Carlisle Bay in 30 fs 8-veer'd to 2/3 of a Cable Mod: & Cloudy at 4 PM fired a Gun & made the Sigl for all Merchantmen
Thursday 26th
Empd staying the Foremast & setting up the Rigging ー Mod: breezes & Cloudy at 7 PM fired a Gun a Sigl for the Convoy to Weigh at 9 Weighd and came to sail 5 Sail in Co
Friday 27th
At 11 AM NE End of St Vincents WNW 5 or 6 Lgs Mod: & Cloudy TKd Occasionally
Saturday 28th
½ pt 3 AM Wore Ship at 9 Empd turning up the Bay, at 10 Came too an Anchr in Kingston Bay in 30 fs Water Veer'd to 1/3 of a Cable at Single Anchr in Kingston Bay in the Island of St. Vincent at 5 PM warp'd the Ship farther in & Moor'd Ship2
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/909.
2. Ibid., the Solebay and transports had come to embark the 6th Regiment of Foot. The convoy sailed for New York on October 11.