Extract of a Letter from Captain Vandeput of his Majs Ship Asia at New York dated the 25 June 1775

Since I had the Honor of writing to You on the 5th Instant, the Provincial Congress highly disapproving of the Robbery at Turtle Bay,² issued an Order that the Stores should be all return'd, which was accordingly done, except some few things which the Storekeeper says were not brought back, on the 12th at about three in the Morning, the Storekeeper came Onboard and informed me that a large Sloop had been, since the Evening before at Turtle Bay taking off the Stores, It was then about an Hour's Flood and the Kingsfisher lying near us I directed Captn [James] Montagu to sail immediately and to seize the Vessel if he should be able to come up with her, unluckily our information came too late; She had left Turtle Bay at the first of the Flood, and there being but little Wind when the Kingsfisher got there, She could not follow her thro' Hell Gate and Escaped, this Sloop it seems was sent from Stamford in Connecticut, so the People of the Town pretend not to have been at all accessary to this Affair.