1775 Aug. 18.
[Port Royal harbor]
Received on board of the Success, ninety-one barrels of powder, and got in readiness to sail. At 10 A.M. Captain Cattell arrived in town with 60 men of the Provincials, and offered to join us to protect the gunpowder, which we accepted of.
1. "Hatter's Report," Drayton, American Revolution, I, 337.
