Remark's &c onbd the Hope Sundy the 17th Novr 1776 At 8 [A.M.] Cape Sable NWBW 3 or 4 Leags DoWr [Fresh Gales and Squally] Saw a Sail to the Et wd Tack'd and Chaced, at ½ past 9 Tack'd to the Wt Wd fired 6 foure .Pounders Shoted at the Chace 3 of Do Round and Grape the Chace Brought to Proved to be the Ship Betsey 2 taken by the Rebels took Charge and made Sail to the Et wd Cape Sable NEBE 5 or 6 Miles
1. PRO Admiralty 52/1794.
2. The Betsey, Thomas Jarrold, master, from the Isl~ of Wight for Halifax had been taken November 2 by the Massachusetts privateer brig Washington, Elias Smith, Vice Admiralty Records, N. S. Arch. _
