Caroline, February 8, 1777
[Extract]
. . . It seems we have 7 men of War in Our bay, who have been hitherto tolerably civil; a Vessell loaded with Blankets luckily escaped them and it got up York River. We have an Account that one of our Vessels sent out on a trading Voiage on Public Account, is taken off St. Kitts, by whom or whither carried, I have not heard. . . .
1. David John Mays, ed., The Letters and Papers of Edmund Pendleton, 1734-1803 (Charlottesville, 1967), I, 205.
