June 1778 Friday 12th
Montinico Island1 No: 12 Miles—
AM at 8 Calm head to the SE at 11 Employed Hogging Ship—
Manahiging NW 54 Miles2
Little Winds pm at 2 Made sail and Chaced to the WSW, fired 7 Shott at the Chace, at 4 She brought too found her to be a Schooner from Portsmouth in piscataqua3 Bound to france in Ballast4 took the Materials and provisions out of her, five Casks of Pearl Ash & One Do: Furrs Marked EXN 1 Ab shared the Provisions to our Ships Company and Prisoners, & Set the Schooner on fire pm Mengigon Island5 NW 9 or 10 Miles
D, UkLPR, Adm. 52/1964, fols. 129–30.
1. That is, Matinicus I., Maine.
2. That is, Monhegan I., Maine.
3. Piscataqua is the river on which Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is situated; Piscataqua was sometimes referred to as Portsmouth Harbor.
4. Schooner Amity, Thomas Palmer, master; as seen in John Langdon to Continental Committee for Foreign Affairs, 5 June, above, Amity was carrying dispatches to the American Commissioners in France.
5. That is, Monhegan I., Maine.
