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. . . Long before this reaches you, you will have heard of the recapture of the Fox, McNeal in at Falmouth. The accounts of Manly are various — one day he is taken by the Rainbow and carried to Halifax — the next he is arrived at some Eastern port in a shattered condition, but we have no accounts of him that can be depended on; it would grieve me much to have the account of his being taken...
Date: 22 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Matters remain here much as when I wrote you last, except som alarms caused by a report that a very large fleet appeared off Cape Ann on the 31st ulto — the time agreed very well with the accounts we previously had of the fleet's sailing from N.Y. as we supposed the Town was the enemy's object, all hands were preparing to go thither, when on a sudden the fleet vanished in a fogg and we have heard...
Date: 5 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9