1. John Bradford to Continental Marine Committee, 30 July, above.
2. Capt. John Skimmer. In a letter of 3 Sept., Bradford reported the arrival of two more prizes of General Gates and the death of Skimmer in an engagement with a third vessel; John Bradford to Continental Marine Committee, 3 Sept. 1778, DLC, Bradford Letterbooks 1776–1782, vol. 2.
3. On this same day, the committee wrote Jeremiah Wadsworth, the Commissary General of Purchases for the Continental Army, immediately below.