Cambridge, January 31, 1776
[Extract]
... I can acquaint you that our Commodore Manly has just taken two ships from White Haven to Boston, with coal and potatoes, and sent them into Plymouth, 2 and fought a tender (close by the light house where the vessels were taken), long enough to give his prize time to get off, in short, till she thought it best to quit the combat, and he to move off from the men-of-war, which were spectators of this scene.
1. Fitzpatrick, ed., Writings of Washington, IV, 299-301.
2. The Norfolk and Happy Return.
