[Newport, November] 30.
Six Deserters came ashore from the ships last night. Also two officers coming ashore last Night &c were apprehended & carried to Head Quarters ー one of them Mr Stanhope a second Lieutenant on board the
Man o' War.2
1. Dexter, ed., Diary of Ezra Stiles, 1, 640.
2. See Cooke to Ward and Hopkins, December 4, 1775.
