Our people have taken possession of Fort Johnston, where there are now between five and six hundred of our Provincials, who are in daily expectation of an attack from the man of war, one armed vessel, and two packets armed,2 which are now in the road.
1. Pennsylvania Evening Post, October 5, 1775.
2. H.M. Sloop Tamar, H.M. Armed Vessel Cherokee, and the packet boats Falmouth and Swallow.
