[Lewes] Wednesday Morning 10 o'clock July the 30th 1777
Gentlemen
By this Express you will be certain that the [British] Fleet is in sight, and at this time about 4 Leagues from the Light House, there is 228 (two hundred and twenty eight) sail, the wind is about N.N.E., and they bear about S.E. from the Cape. they to all appearance will not be in till this afternoon. I am in haste, Gentlemen [&c.]
Henry Fisher
[Endorsed] Received at Chester Fifteen minutes before six o'clock, and forwarded at 6 o'clock T Mifflin
1. Record Group 27, Records of Pennsylvania's Revolutionary Governments, 1775-90, Executive Correspondence File, Pa.Arch.
