Journal of His Majestys Sloop Scorpion
John Tollemache, Commanding1
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July 1775 Friday 28 |
latter [part] mode. and fair . . . at 6 A M hove in to 1/3 of a Cable Fir'd a Gun for a Pilot at 8 Weigh'd & came to Sail at & 10 Came onbd a Pilot. P M Empd working into Nantasket Bay in Company with His Maj. Ships Merlin & Falcon, at 8 Came to in Boston Harbour with the Bt Bower in 5 fam water, Veer'd to ½ a Cable found riding here His Majs Ships the Preston Vice Adml [Samuel] Graves and Sommerset with a large Fleet of Transports. |
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/872.
Source: Naval Documents of the American Revolution, I, 998