[Boston] May 15th [1775].
By a Letter from Lord Dunmore, Governor of Virginia, the people in that Colony were taking up Arms in all parts of it, and his Lordship was threatened with every Species of Violence unless he restored some Gunpowder, which he had thought proper to remove from a Magazine in Williamsburgh on Board the Fowey and Magdalen Schooner; and the Commotion becoming more general his Excellency applied to General [Thomas] Gage and the Admiral for such Assistance as could be spared. And Captain George Montagu of the Fowey at Virginia, in a Letter dated May 3d acknowledging the Receipt of the Admiral's Order of the 9th of April to raise one hundred Seamen for the Fleet, acquainted him that the Inhabitants of Norfolk, where the Contractors Agent resided, had refused to suffer Supplies of Provisions and Necessaries to be sent on board for the use of the Fowey and Magdalen Schooner and that he (Capt. Montagu) had at the request of Ld Dunmore stopped the Magdalen from proceeding to the Delaware.
1. Graves's Conduct, I, 90, MassHS Transcript.