I sailed from Jamaica the 6th of September last, and was taken by the Joseph privateer of this place, who brought me in here. The brig is at Bedford,2 and I am almost stripped naked, and without money.
1. London Chronicle, February 18 to February 20, 1777.
2. Libel was filed in the Southern District of Massachusetts, against the Britannia, Benjamin Francis Hughes, master, taken by the Rhode Island privateer sloop Joseph, Thomas West, for trial at Plymouth, January 17, 1777, Independent Chronicle, Boston, January 2, 1777.
