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Dear Sir [Tunes] Tebout is just come in with an account of the last acquisition of powder at Wappoo. Tomorrow morning we shall receive it escorted by artillery & grenadier Miletia, & 50 provincials who have been diverted with a March to Beaufort, by way of a beginning, headed by Will Cattel ー a most curious Letter from the [illegible] has been intercepted by the little-river Comee addressed to Capt. [Tyringham] House [Howe] of the Glasgow Man of War, the original is sent for & I hope to give it to you in print ー was it in my hands should have sent a copy. The Eagle Packet sailed yesterday, & 'tis said Ld W. [Campbell] himself carried his Dispatches on board the Tamar the day before. . . .2
Charles Town 22d [August] 1775
1. South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, XXVII, 131, 132
2. The journal of Captain Edward Thornbrough, of the Tamer, records the sailing of the Eagle Packet on Aug. 22, 1775, but contains no reference to Lord William Campbell, on that or the previous day.
