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1776 May
Sunday 19
[Off the coast of South Carolina]
A M saw the land from NbE to WNW dist 6 Lgs lattr part fresh gales & squally in all reefs T sails, and handed F T sail, wore ship
First part fresh gales & thick Wr, with rain, sett F T sail @ 5 P M Chas town beacon NbW½W dist 7 or 8 miles TKd ship & fir'd a Gun for the schr2 to come under our stern, middle & lattr...
Date: 23 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
1776/June
Friday 28
Five fm Hole of[f] Charlestown
Modt & cloudy...AM @ 9 weigh'd p sigl of the Commodore Sr P Parker, as did the Experiment, Bristol, Active (which led the van) Actaeon, Syren, & Solebay, & ½ pt 10 we got aground. @ ½ past 11, the Actaeon dropping onbd us, carried away our Bolsprit & all the Rigging, took out shot & lightned her abaft, @ noon warp'd off
Do...
Date: 28 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Augt 1776
Saturday 31st
Charles Town Light house NbW, 1⅔ Leagues
Mode and Clear Wr at 3 AM saw a Sail in the Wear Qr Do come up with the Sail, and every person concluded by the Behaviour that she was a Rebel Privateer, we haild him to Lower down his Sails on his not complying we fird into him which killd one Man & Wounded another, she proved to be a Tender belonging to His Majs Sloop ...
Date: 31 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Septemr 1776
Wednesday 4th
Charles Town Lighthouse Wt 7 Leagues
at 11 took the Rutledge Schooner, laden with Rice and Indigo. Dispatched the prise to Cape Fear.
Date: 4 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
My Lord, I beg Leave to acquaint You that in Consequence of your Lordship's Directions signified to me of the 1st of September last; and finding His Majesty's Sloop Cruizer to be in a worse Condition than represented by the several Surveys held on her; (as will appear by Captain [Francis] Parry's Report of the 27th September here inclosed) I gave the necessary Directions for her Stores,...
Date: 18 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
December 1776
Saturday 7th
The Lighthouse at Rhoad Island, NNE½E 6 or 7 Miles
At 4 AM weighed p Signal & came to Sail in Company the fleet, Do Joind company His Majestys Ship Mercury, at 8 Block Island ESE, the Eastermost point of Long Island SbW, at 10 the Commdore made the Sigl for the Stemmost of the Convoy to make more Sail, at 11 the Commdore made the Signal to prepair for Battle —...
Date: 7 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
December 1776
Wednesday 18
Moor'd as before between Connonicut & the Main.
AM sent the boat to the assistance of the Prize Sloop, she being on Shore, Lost in getting her off a Grapnail and Boat's Warp; at 9 Saw a Ship passing by the Western Channell towards Rhoad Island, at 11 heard the report of Guns to the Eastward, Rebels plundered her [the prize sloop] of two Swivels & sundry...
Date: 18 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
January 1777.
Sunday 26:
Moor'd off Prudence Island as before —
Modt and fair Wr PM Wash'd and smoaked between Decks, at 1 Departed this Life Thomas Smith (Seaman) at 5 sent the boats mann'd & Armed after a Sloop that had Anchord between Prudence and Patience Islands, at ½ past saw a firing from the boats and Sloop at 6 fir'd 3 Nine Pounders as Signals for the boats to Return —
Little...
Date: 27 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
March 1777
Thursday 27th
Do [Halifax] N29°E 49 Lgs
at 7 AM saw a Sail in the NE set the Fore TS. made Sail and gave chace ー
Fresh Breezes and Squally at times,
at ½ past 1 [P .M.] came up with the chace, and fird a Nine Pounder Shotted at her, she then brought to and hoisted Continential Coulers, found her to be the Minerva brig from Surinam bound to Boston, with Molasses, Coffee, Cocoa, Arms...
Date: 27 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
August 1777
Cape Henry WbN 7 Mile
Friday 15th
at 4 AM Saw a strange sail passing thro' the Fleet under all Sail, Do cast off the Vessels in Tow & made sail after her, at ½ past came up with her, and fired Several Volleys of Small Arms, she hove too Do sent a Boat on board she proved to be the Rochester Brig from James's River Virginia loaded With Tobacco & Staves, bound to Nantz...
Date: 15 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
August 1777
Sunday 24
At Single Anchor off Turkey Island
Employed as the Service required. Little Wind and Cloudy Wr at 9 PM: weigh'd and tow'd to the NEt up the River Elk, at ½ past 10 Anchord with the Bt Br in 3 fms,
Monday 25
Moord Head and Stern off Cecil Court House in the River Elk —
at 3 AM: the Signal on board the Roebuck for the Troops to be ready to Land, at 4 Weighed and...
Date: 25 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9