On Sunday last [January 14] Col. [Moses] Kirkland was brought to town from Cambridge, under a guard, and on Monday was committed to jail. This man was a ringleader of a gang of Tories in the back parts of South-Carolina; from thence he went to the Virginia Negro Chief, ¹ who sent him to General Howe at Boston, in a tender, which was taken by Captain Manly, in the Lee privateer. ² In the same tender was taken Mr. [William] Robinson and Captain [Thomas] Matthews of Virginia, whom Dunmore was sending prisoners to Boston, under the guard of the above colonel. These gentlemen arrived in town also on Sunday night, having in their turn had the pleasure of escorting Colonel Kirkland.

The Tamer (on board of which is Lord William Campbell, late Governor of South-Carolina) having taken a sloop from Bermuda, with two hundred and sixty half Johannes, the property of a house in Charlestown, ³ the Convention granted the injured an order tosell as much of his Lordship's goods and chattels as would repay the money stolen from them; on which they sold his coach, horses, &c. and have wrote him word that they have a balance of thirty pounds, which they are ready to pay him to order. ⁴