[5] After the British defeated the Penobscot Expedition, the U.S. privateers began their most fierce revenge by attacking Nova Scotia.

On 2 May 1777, in the Minas Basin the Captain Collet ordered the capture the U.S. privateer schooner Sea Duck, under the command of John Bohannan.

[14] Captain William Bishop, in a small schooner (35 men), pursued the three privateer vessels and their prize.

[20] In the fall of 1781, under orders of Captain James Nevins (Nevens, Nivens, Nuyens, Nevers), Mr. Low of the U.S. naval vessel Defence (18 men) went up the Bay of Fundy and was attacked by the Nova Scotia militia.

[21] The cannon were seven that spoke from their sloop; And hands that were greedy clutched gladly upon A ship Amos Sheffield had filled for Saint John.

Their sally was smashed in ten minutes or sooner; Yanks captured Will Bishop and Jonathan Crane And all of their party who struggled in vain.

We were twenty-eight strong in the schooner SUCCESS, Militiamen bold who with Belcher did press By horse out to Horton and clambered on board, And sailed on the track of our foe-men abhorred.

With the tide running in, they were caught at the Cape; We hammered their sloop, and in haste to escape Some took to their dories and scrambled to land While others lay dead in the ship they had manned.

Still slowed by the tide was the schooner they'd taken And this by its captors was quickly forsaken, And promptly Will Bishop and Jonathan Crane Discomfit their guards and a victory gain.