This morning arrived the Tartar man of war from Boston, after a fine passage of twenty-one days, having on board seventy-five rebels of the American army, which were taken by a privateer the Americans had fitted out at Boston. 2 She brought some fresh dispatches, which were sent up to the Secretary of State's office on Saturday night. 3
1. Connecticut Courant, April 29, 1776.
2. Washington's brig Washington.
3. From Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter... (Providence, 1824), 19: "we was put on board the British frigate Tartar, and orders given to convey us to England. ー when two or three days out I projected a scheme (with the assistance of my fellow prisoners, 72 in number) to take the ship, in which we should undoubtedly have succeeded, as we had a number of resolute fellows on board, had it not been for the treachery of a renegade Englishman, who betrayed us ー as I was pointed out by this fellow as the principal in the plot, I was ordered in irons by the Officers of the Tartar, and in which situation I remained until the arrival of the ship at Portsmouth (Eng.) when I was brought on deck and closely examined, but protesting my innocence, and what was very fortunate for me in the course of the examination the person by whom I had been betrayed, having been proved a British deserter his story was discredited and I was relieved of my irons." Hereafter cited as Life of Israel R. Potter.