October 1776 Tuesday 8
Montock point No.37W 10 Leags at 6 AM saw a Sl bearing S½E 3 or 4 Miles 6 AM gave Chace to the Et wd. Syren in Co Modt Breezes and Clear saw three Sl to the NW gave Chace at 4 PM fired 20 9 pounders & brot. too the Vessell[s] a Snow from Barbadoes S. a Brigg from the Bay of Honduras, taken by an American Privateer2 and a Brigg from Surrinam bound to New London loaded wth Molasses3 sent a Mid. & 5 Men to take care of her
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/181.
2. Tile recaptures were the snow Jenny, William McNeily, master, from Barbados for Belfast with rum, and the brig Carron, J. Montgomery, master, from the Bay of Honduras for Cork with mahogany and logwood, Howe's Prize List, March 31, 1777, ibid., 1/487.
3. Ibid., the Batchelor owned by Nathaniel Shaw, Jr.
