Early in the morning
saw a Brig under our Lee Bow, about 8 o’clock spoke her: from Ostend to Galway
laden with Flaxseed took the People their Baggage &c. on board scuttled and
left Her.2
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2 Jones, in his report to the American
commissioners, written on the 27th of May, from Brest, says : “On the 14th I
took a Brigantine between Scilly and Cape Clear, bound for Ostend, with a cargo
of flaxseed for Ireland, sunk her, and proceeded into St. George’s Channel.”
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, p.
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