1. The following notice of an early cruise of Com Whipple, was procured for me by my friend Dr. P.G. Robbins, of Roxbury, from an old file of the Boston Postboy and Advertiser, of February 4th, 1760, now in the Historical Society rooms at Boston.

   "Last Tuesday returned to Providence, after a successful cruise, Capt. Abraham Whipple, of the Game Cock privateer; who sailed from this place on the 19th of July last, having taken in said cruise, twenty-three French prizes, many of which were valuable. Capt. W. on his passage home on the 26th of January, spoke with Capt. Robert Brown, in a sloop from Monte Christo, bound to New York, in lat. 39 deg. 30 min., and long. 72 deg. 40 min. in great distress for want of water and provisions, which he generously supplied him."

2. The history of the last years of the Providence sloop, is taken from Cooper's Naval History.