[420] These three vessels captured the four prizes mentioned in the following advertisement, which appeared in the Continental Journal and Weekly Advertiser for July 3, 1777, a paper published at Boston. The advertisement is introduced here to illustrate the final disposition of prize vessels:
“To be sold by Public Auction at eleven o’clock on Wednesday the 23rd of July instant at Mr. Tileston’s wharf in Boston the following prizes with their appurtenances.
| “The | Ship Lonsdale, | about 250 | tons |
| Brig Britannia, | about 140 | ” | |
| Brig Penelope, | about 130 | ” | |
| Snow Sally, | about 180 | ” |
“The above prizes lay at Tileston’s wharf. They are all good vessels and well found. Inventories to be seen at the sheriff’s office Cornhill, and at the place of sale.
“W. Greenleaf, Sheriff.”
[421] Massachusetts Resolves, April 26, 1777; Massachusetts Revolutionary Archives, XL, 29, 55.
[422] Massachusetts Resolves, March 2, 1781.
[423] Boston Gazette, July 24, 1780.
[424] Massachusetts Revolutionary Archives, XLIV, 408.
[425] Ibid., 268.