Wmsburg Feb 10th 1776.
Gent
We think it our indispensible duty to inform you that a 50 gun man of war is just arrived & lying with the King Fisher & several Tenders off old Fort Point below Hampton what ship or from whence she came, we have not yet discovered 2 we are [&c.]
By order of the Commee.
Edmd Pendleton.
1. Correspondence of Council of Safety, Md. Arch.
2. H.M.S. Roebuck, 44 guns.
