Saturday, 6th. Weighed from under Connanicut at 4 A.M. with a small breeze of wind.  Met several vessells bound to Newport and Boston.  At 7 P.M. anchored under Block Island, over against the L10,000 Pear [pier?].  Bought 10s. worth of Codfish for the people.

Sunday, 7th. About 4 A.M. weighed from Block Island, and Monday, the 8th instant, at 9 A.M., anchored in Huntington Bay.

Tuesday, 9th. Weighed from Huntington Bay at 3 P.M.  At 11 came to the white stone.  Fired a gun & beat the drum to let them know what we were.  The Ferryboat came off & told us we could not get hands at York, for the sloops fitted by the country had got them all.  At 12 came to anchor at the 2 Brothers.  At 4 took an acc’t of all the provisions on board, with the cost; together with a list of all the people on board.  Price, a hand that came with us from Rhode Island, askt leave to go to York to see his wife.  Set a shilling crazy fellow ashore, not thinking him fit to proceed the Voyage, his name unknown to me.

Wednesday, 10th. This morning, about 5 A.M., Cap’t Freebody went up to York in the pinnace to get provisions and leave to beat about for more hands.  At 1 P.M. the Pinnace returned and brought word to Cap’t Norton from Mr. Freebody that he had waited on his Honour the Gov’r, and that he would not give him leave to beat up for Volunteers.  The chief reason he gave was that the City was thinned of hands by the 2 country sloops that were fitted out by the Council to cruise after the Spanish privateers on the coast, and that his Grace the Duke of Newcastle had wrote him word, that, if Admiral Vernon or Gen. Wentworth[A] should write for more recruits, to use his endeavors to get them, so that he could not give encouragement to any privateers to take their men away.  Three of the hands that went up to York left us.  At 4 P.M.  Edward Sampford, our pilot, went ashore in a canoe with four more hands, without leave from the Cap’n.  When he came on board again the Cap’n talked to him, & found that he was a mutinous, quarrelsome fellow, and so ordered him to bundle up his clothes & go ashore for good.  He carried with him 5 more hands.  After they were gone, I read the articles to those on board, who readily signed; so hope we shall lead a peaceable life.  Remain, out of the 41 hands that came with us from Rhode Island, 29 hands.

[Footnote A:  Admiral Vernon (whose name is familiar to every American,—­Mount Vernon was named in his honor) was in command of the British fleet in the Spanish Main.  General Wentworth, an officer “without experience, authority, or resolution,” had command of the land forces in the West Indies.  All the North American, colonies, except Georgia, which was too recently settled, and whose own borders were too much exposed, had been called upon to give aid to the expedition against the Spaniards, and a regiment thirty-six hundreds strong was actually supplied by them.  The war was one in which the colonists took an active interest.]