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Your sundry favours P: Capt. Moseley were delivered to Us by him, tho' he was unfortunate enough to lose the Vessel & Cargo; when he got within a few days sail of our Coast, he was taken by a Boston Privatier fitted out to cruize against British Vessels & he could not convince them she belonged to Americans; in attempting to carry her into Boston (where had she arrived she must have been restored to Us) she was again taken by a British Ship of War & carried to New York, so that we lost her al­ together ² . . .

[Endorsed] In the Lords of the Admiralty's of 19th Septr 1777