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Revised Sep 3 2021

Bond's Providence Logbook Mar 4, 1793

Remarks &c from Port Morant towards
Port Royal, Monday 4 March 1793

 1 pm: Fresh breezes and fair weather with haze.

 4 pm: Ditto Weather

 5 pm: Worked the Pumps as usual

 8 pm: Ditto Weather

12 mid: Ditto Weather

 2 am: Light breezes and cloudy weather

 6 am: At 6 Hour.30 Minutes weighed under single reefed Top Sails. At 6.45 abreast of Wilson's Quay.

 7 am: At 7 in Boats and made all sail. Served the usual Breakfast of thic Portable Soup Gruel – At 8 Port Morant Harbour N½E off shore 2 miles – At 9 read the Articles of War, and punished Richard Upsdale and Richard Franklin, seamen, with 6 lashes for Theft; and Thomas Austin, Marine with 12 lashes, for Insolence to his Superior.

12 noon: At Noon moderate breezes with showers. Yelhas point N10°E, off shore 3 miles, Cow Bay point N45°W.
   Latitude Observed 17°·49′ North


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