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The Cabot Briga drove ashore at the Eastwd by the Milford, the people escaped, The Briga tis said bilgd before she was abandond. Capt. Fiske in the Massa [Massachusetts] & Capt. Harriden in the Tyrannicide, Brigs, were in compa with the Cabot, & thinking it imprudent to attack the M[ilford] they stood off. The M[ilford] out saild the Cabot upon the wind & so took her. Many people...
Date: 6 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
The Nautilus of 14 or 16 guns (6 lb) chased the Bevy Privateer in a Bevy harbr ー & fired upon her after she had run aground and was stripped for abt 4 hours. The Salem people, to the no of 200 or more went down upon Salem Neck & were preparing to fire upon the Ship with their field pieces when she fired the first shot among a party of them wo were collected upon a hill. I was myself...
Date: 10 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2