October 1776 Thursday 3
Do [Seal Island] No 55 Et 16 Leags at 2 A M saw a Sail in the NW Quarter, gave Chace...at 7 spoke the Chace Which prov'd to be a Brig from Hallifax taken by an American Privateer.2
1. PRO, Admiralty 52/1865.
2. The brigantine Halifax, Richard Hinckly, master, for the West Indies with a cargo of fish. She was taken on September 22 by the General Putnam. The Halifax Vice Admiralty Court awarded the officers and men of H.M.S. Milford one eighth part of the value of the recaptured brigantine and cargo, Vice Admiralty Register, vol. 5, 1769-1777, N.S. Arch.