DIARY OF CAPTAIN LAMSON 239 



of our friends who had not heard of our 

 capture. War was then raging and priva- 

 teering was the order of the day, but my 

 friends and that section of the country I 

 lived in, 1 did not approve of it, consequently 

 I did not partake of it. I remained at home 

 about six months occupied in various pur- 

 suits, principally in gardening until I was 

 tired, when I bought part of the Brig Isa- 

 bel, a whitewashed prize brig and took a 

 Spaniard as Captain and a Spanish crew, 

 and a cargo of lumber for St. Jago and 

 proceeded to sea. Three days after the 

 Chesapeake was captured. 2 On the second 

 night out, off the South shoals, was boarded 

 by the English Privateer Brig, Sir John 

 Sherbrooke, 3 who was very particular in 

 the examination of papers. After I was 



1 It was to the war itself, rather than privateering, that 

 the section of the country in which Capt. Lamson lived 

 was opposed. 



2 June 1, 1813. 



3 English privateer brig, " Sir John Sherbrooke," 10 

 guns and 40 men, afterwards captured by the American 

 privateer, "Saucy Jack." 



