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I herewith send you Inclosed an accot of a couple articles saved by Ellias Hughes out of Brig Nancy which I have had apprised but having no or ders how to settle with him, begs you'll have it adjusted according to agree ment, or let me know how I am to proceed, likewise several accts & Charges which occurred in geting the Powder &c from the Beech to the Main & Cart ing it Cross the...
Date: 8 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
January 1777
Wednesday 1st
Cape May SBE¾E 1 Mile
AM at 7 The falcon Sail'd, at 8 Made her Sign! to Return First part Fresh gales & fair Latter Squally & Rain P. M. at 1 saw a sail in the Offing at 3 Made the Sign! to prepare to sail & soon after Weigh'd & made sail at 7 Fired Several Guns at a Schooner & Brot too She prov'd to be from Cape Nichola Mole with Molasses &...
Date: 1 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
January 1777
Thursday 2d
Cape May SBE¾E 1 Mile
AM at 7, heard the report of several Guns to the Etwd at 9 Punish'd Thos Warren Seaman for theft with 12 Lashes at 12 Weigh'd & made sail
Fresh gales and cloudy P.M. at 4 Brat too & made the Pearls Signl for a Boat at 5 wore & made sail
Friday 3d
AM. at 11 Read the Articles of War &c to the ships Campy at 12 The light House...
Date: 6 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
January 1777
Cape May WbS 4 Leags
Fresh breezes and hazey. At 4 (PM) gave Chace to 2 Sail.
TKd: at difft times. At 8 Came up with the Chace which proved a Snow from Jamaica taken by the Andrew Dorea American Privateer — took charge of her.2
Date: 12 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
May 1777
Wednesy 21st
At Single Anchor within Cape May
at 8 AM Made the Signal to the Roebuck for seeing 2 Sail to the SE. The Perseus in Chace. At 10 Got up all. the spare Sails & Aired them, & all the Bread Picked & Aired, heard a Gun fired in the Offing People empd about the rigging. At Noon Saw 4 Sail without the Cape standing in
First Part Moderate and Clear Weather, middle...
Date: 21 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
June 1777
Monday 30
Cape May ESE 5 or 6 Leagues
at 10 AM a Signal On Board the Roebuck for all Detached Ships to Join Her at ½ Past 11 a Signal on Board the Roebuck for the Marlen to Prepare to Anchor —
Fresh Breezes and Cloudy Weather, at 2 PM made the Signal to the Roebuck for Seeing a Sail in the SE Quarter, at 6 sent the Pinnace with an Officer mand and Armd of[f] Cape May, in Company...
Date: 1 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
July 1777
Tuesday 22d
Cape May No Cape Henlopen WbS
at 6 AM made the Merlins Signal to weigh at ½ Pt 6 Tack'd Ship Cape May WSW 5 Leags In 2d Reef Topsails ½ pt 7 saw a Sail & gave Chace out 2d Reef T. Sls Sent the Barge & Cutter to cut off the Chace from the Land Fired several Guns at the Chace
First pt Modt & Cloudy Latter Strong Gales with Rain at times The Land to the NE of...
Date: 22 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
On Friday between the hours of one and two o'clock, P.M. came to my house Miles Henry and William Dodge, formerly belonging to the Roebuck, and made the following report from due examination, viz. They came into Carson's [Corson] Inlet, situate between the Five Miles Beach and Peck's Beach, about sunrise, on Friday, and put into a small creek, by the name of Heake Fish, putting in at the west end...
Date: 25 January 1777
Volume: Volume 9
July 1777
Wednesday 30.
Cape Henlopen South 2 Miles Cape May NE 5 Leagues
at 6 A.M. Saw many Sail in the Offing at 7 the Roebuck hove out a Signal for our Pilot hoisted out the Barge and sent him on Board with a Petty Officer at 8 Roebuck Weighed and came to Sail Standing out of the Bay Saw an Admirals Ship Supposed to be Lord Howe and His Fleet from New York At Noon 157 Sail in Sight. —...
Date: 31 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9