A letter from the committee for the county of Isle of Wight, enclosing a resolution of the said committee, was presented to the Convention, and read; setting forth, that Caesar, a negro man slave belonging to Walter Gwynn, of the county of Gloucester, and pilot to a tender, was placed by the captain of the said tender on board the Molly, Captain Conyard, with orders to carry her to Norfolk, but that capt. Conyard, had prevailed with him, by offering him a reward, to run the said vessel into Pagan creek, in the said county of Isle of Wight, where she now lies; that they had sent the said negro Caesar to the Committee of Safety, to be dealt with as they shall think proper.

Ordered, That the said letter and resolution be referred to Mr. Richard Randolph, Mr. Benjamin Harrison [Jr.], Mr. [Burwell] Bassett, Mr. [Nathaniel] Terry, Mr. [George] Brooke, Mr. [Edmund] Berkeley, and. Mr. Rootes; and they are to report the same, together wth their opinion thereupon, to the Convention.

The Convention being informed that a vessel, belonging to Messrs. Gibson & Co. was about to sail for Great Britain with naval stores,

Resolved, That it be recommended to the committee for the county of Nansemond not to permit the said vessel to proceed to sea, till the farther order of this Convention.