| Description | Letter to James Gordon of Letterfourie, London, from Daniel Henry Smith, Madeira, with an update on the suspicious ship which turned out to be Captain Cooper’s, ‘Yesterday appeared off this port an American built vessel partly rigged as a Brig and partly as a Schooner, as most people understood that it waws the same pirate that has plagued us since January Captain Murray went out after her’, account of battle between them, 9 March 1777 |