Nov. 29 [1775]. A wagon from Bethabara, and one sent by the Single Brethren, left for Cross Creek, loaded with wheat, in order to buy salt. At sunset Br. George Bibighaus returned from Cross Creek and New Bern; he managed his first expedition for the store very welI. He confirmed the report that tenders from men-of-war lie before New Bern and Willmingtown.2
1. Fries, ed., Moravians in North Carolina, II, 891.
2. From H.M. Sloops Cruizer and Scorpion.