[Newport] October 26.
This Aft. a Letter from Gen. Washington informg that Falmo was half burnt down & still in flames, &c. Gen. Hopk.2 recd it & sent for our Commitee to communicate it to them. This excites a new & desponding Alarm thro' this Town least it shd be also fired.
1. Dexter, ed., Diary of Ezra Stiles, I, 628.
2. Esek Hopkins.
