ALL Gentlemen VOLUNTEERS who are desirous of making their fortunes in eight weeks time, are hereby informed, that the fine new Privateer, called NEW BROOME,1 mounting sixteen sixes and four pounders besides swivels, ISRAEL BISHOP commander, is now compleatly fitted for an eight weeks cruize near Sandy-Hook and in the Sound, where she will be under the protection of His Most Christian Majesty's fleet, and will have the best chance that there has been this war of taking prizes: She only waits for a few more men and then will immediately sail on her cruize. All those who are desirous of entering for the cruize are requested to apply soon on board said brig now laying in Connecticut river, or on board her in New London harbour, where she will be on the first day of August.
Wethersfield [Conn.] July 25. 1778.
Connecticut Courant, and the Weekly Intelligencer (Hartford), 28 July 1778.
1. Connecticut privateer brig New Broome, Capt. Israel Bishop, of New Haven, commander, was commissioned by Gov. Jonathan Trumbull in July 1778. Middlebrook, Maritime Connecticut, 2: 168.
