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August 1777
Block Island No 3 or 4 Leagues
Munday 11
at 4 AM Saw 4 SI Sent the Boats in chace of Do drove three on Shore and took the 4th, whose people had left Her 2
Fresh Breezes PM Condemn'd P Survey on old Mizon Empd filling a Gang of new fore Shrouds at 8 Anchord in 10 fm wh Bt Br So End of Block Isld EbSI/2s 3 or 4 Mls
Date: 11 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
August 1777
Gull Rock E½N 2 or 3 Miles
Wednesday 13
at 6 AM weigh'd and came to SI in fishing the Anchor broke the fish pendant at 10 Saw a Small Schooner at Anchor under Plumb Isld brot too and Sent the Boat who Brot her off wh 1 Man —
First pt fresh breezes Midle light airs and foggy Latter Modt and clear at 3 PM came too in black point bay wh Bt Br in 12 fm burnt the Schooner at 8...
Date: 13 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Cerberus. — Copy of a letter sent to Rear Admiral Sir Peter Parker, August 15, 1777.
Wednesday night being at anchor to the westward of New-London in Black Point Bay, the schooner I had taken, at anchor close by me a-stern, about eleven o'clock at night we discovered a line towing a-stern that came from the bows; we immediately conjectured that it was somebody that had veered himself away by it,...
Date: 15 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
August 1777
Saturday 16
At Anchr in Rhode Island Harbour
½ past 4 AM weigh'd and came to Sl at 8 Saw a Schooner to the westwd, run down shore ½ past haul'd our wind and gave chace to 2 Sail in the Offing
Light breezes and hazey sent the Pinnace in Chace at 4 PM boarded the Sloop & run the Schooner on Shore at 8 Anchd wh Bt Br in. 18 fm pt Judith ENE 5 Mls
Sunday 17
at 6 AM sent the...
Date: 17 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Septr 1777
Monday 1
Block Island NW 4 Lgs
at 6 AM saw a Sl off Montock weighed and Gave Chace. Modt Breezes & fr [PM] at 2 Gay head [Martha's Vine yard] NNE 5 Lgs at 4 Run the Chace on shore who prov'd to be a Schooner,2 Loaded Wt Rum, Sugar & War like Stores, Anchd within Gun shott of her & kept a constant fire upon a Body of Arm'd Men lurking about the Beach while...
Date: 1 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9