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Colonel [Christopher] Gadsden lately coming from Philadelphia in one of our Pilot Boats was driven on Shear on the Coast of North Carolina by a Schooner tender to a Man of War in the offing supposed to have been the Syren ² himself his eldest son the Master of the Boat & all the Crew escaped with all papers of consequence & many other articles but the Boat was hove off by the Enemy & carried to Sea  Colo Gadsden brought with him a pamphlet lately published in Phliadelphia & which has already gone through three Editions, a Copy of which "Common Sense," you will receive by this conveyance & that Gentleman begs your acceptance of it. ー

By order of the Council of Safety

[To] Archd Bullock Esqr for the Provincial Congress or Council of Safety at Savanna