November 1776 Friday 1st
Do Cape [Henlopen] No 61 Wt 21 Leagues at 10 AM saw a Sail to the NW gave Chace with the Daphne Fresh breezes and Cloudy Wr at 1 PM fired 2 twelve Poundrs and brot too the Chace. She prov'd the Brittania Brig belonging to Liverpool and bound there from Jamaica in Ballast Benjn Francis Hughes Mastr taken 21st Octor by the Chance and Congress Privateers2 sent a petty Officer and 2 Men onboard her, and brought 12 men belonging to the above Privateers from Her. at 8 Close Reeft the Topsails.
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/650.
2. Britannia, B. F. Hughes, master and owner, from Jamaica for Liverpool, in ballast, and with one ton of ivory, Howe's Prize List, March 31, 1776, PRO, Admiralty 1/487. Her captors had been the Pennsylvania privateer sloops Chance, Captain James Armitage, 6 guns and 35 men, and Congress (of similar size), Captain William Greenway.
