Philada. August the 3d 1776
[Extract]
Yesterday Came to Town a Ship belonging to the Congress from France with ten Tunns of Powder, about forty Tunns of Lead, one thousand Stand of Arms &c. &c: And the Same day an Armed Veshell taken by Captain [John] Barry2
At seaー
Since I finished my other Letter have been up to Congress where We Recd Inteligence by letter from Captn. Weeks [Lambert Wickes] in the Congress ship, the Reprisal, That he has at Sea on the 13th of July taken two prizes, a Ship and a Schooner bound for Liverpool Loaded with Cotten, Sugar Rum &c.3 The Letter Came by the Prize Schooner which arrived in an Inlet near Egg Harbour ー and the Ship Prize has been Seen off the Capes of Delaware and Supposed by this time got in4...
1. George Herbert Ryden, ed., Letters to and from Caesar Rodney 1756-1754 (Philadelphia, 1933), 100-01. Hereafter cited as Ryden, ed., Letters to and from Caesar Rodney.
2. The sloop Lady Susan.
3. The ship Friendship and schooner Peter.
4. Two letters were written to Thomas Rodney this date. This entry is an extract from both letters.
