August 3.
[Extract]
There have arrived hre within this week past seven of our merchantmen from the Havanna: One of these vessels brought two English Sailors, being part of twenty-two British Sailors belonging to three vessels of their nation, who were taken off the island of Cuba on their homeward-bound passage from Jamaica by two American privateers, who gave the above twenty-two men leave either to go to America, or be put on shore; the latter of which they chose; and having a boat given them, arrived safe in it on the island of Cuba.2 The twenty others are expected here in the next ships that arrive from thence.
1. London Chronicle, September 5 to September 7, 1776:
2. Seamen from the ships Lady Juliana, Reynolds and Juno, taken by the Pennsylvania privateer sloops Congress and Chance. See Volume 5.