Savanah in Georgia the 17th of Augt 1775
[Extract]
No. 57 We have received an Account here that an Armed Vessell or two, fitted out from Charles Town Proceeded to the Bar of St. Augustine and there met with a Vessell Bound to that Port, which had a great Quantity of Gun Powder and King's Stores on Board, part of which had been sent on shore but that they took out of her 15,000 weight of the Gun Powder which they had Landed Safe at Beaufort Port Royal South Carolina.
1. Collections of the Georgia Historical Society, III, 206-209; from PRO, Colonial Office, Class 5.
