About six this
morning saw a Sail under our lee Quarter, gave Chase or rather bore away till
we came within about a mile of Her found Her to be a large Ship standing Our
course clued up Our Courses and bawl’d Our wind—got ready for Action she
standing on her course close to the wind, wore Ship when it was too late,
continued the chase till night and lost Her.
SOURCE: Dr. Ezra
Green, Diary of Ezra Green, M.D., Surgeon
on Board the Continental Ship “Ranger,” Under John Paul Jones, from November 1,
1777 to September 27, 1778, pp. 17-8
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