November 1775 Saturday 4
Moor'd between the Battery & Oyster Island Fresh Gales & Cloudy with Rain at times P M Clear'd Hawse, sent some small Arms on board the Dutchess of Gordon for the Governors defence2
Sunday 5
A M Sail'd hence for Boston the Glasgow with 255 Emigrants Fresh Gales & Cloudy P M at 1 Fir'd 15 Guns it being the Anny of the Gunpowder Plot:
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/67.
2. Governor Tryon had fled on board the packet Halifax on October 18, 1775, but, on October 30, moved on board the Dutchess of Gordon.
