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... You will see by the Papers that a Total end is put to Lord Dunmore's Piratical Depredations; many hundreds of the Whites & Negroes which he had assembled being cut of[f] by sickness; above twenty of his Vessels taken or burnt, and the rest all dispersed & removed from that part of the Continent. So may the Enemies of America always prosper. The distresses of Barbadoes have extorted a very Lamentable Petition from the people of that Island, and a Gentleman is arrived here from Bermudas with a Memorial stating the incapacity of that Island to subsist without Provisions from the United Colonies, and intimating that if the Bermudians are not permitted to Bring Provisions from thence without interruption from British Cruizers, it will be necessary for them to ask both Subsistence & Protection from the Congress....
From Quebec I hear that all attempts to Transport the Vessels sent out from hence, over the Falls of Chamblee in to Lake Champlain (by the help of Machines called Cammels) have proved fruitless, and that early in August it was found necessary to build Vessels on the Lake to Convoy Burgoyne's Army to Crownpoint, and that for this purpose all the Ship Carpenters in Canada were called together; and as this business will doubtless employ them until winter, we may, I think, make ourselves easy respecting the Operations in that Province....
London, Fryday Evening [Sept. 20, 1776].
Endorsed, London, Sept. 1776. E. B. Esqr. Letter recd. at Paris, Sept. 25, 1776.
