[Philadelphia, ca. 10 December 1775]
[Extract]
One of our armed vessels has taken an English storeship coming with all the implements of war (except powder) to Boston. She is worth about £30,000 sterling as General Washington informs us, and the stores are adapted to his wants as perfectly as if he had sent the invoice. 2 They have also taken two small provision vessels from Ireland to Boston; a forty gun ship blew up the other day by accident in the harbor of Boston. 3 Of a certainty the hand of god is upon them.
1. Julian P. Boyd, et al., eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson (Princeton, 1950), I, 270-71. Hereafter cited as Boyd, ed., Jefferson Papers.
2. The brig Nancy.
3. Rumor transformed a transport carrying hay into a "forty gun ship."
