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I am sorry to Inform you that we were on Tuesday Night last under the disagreeable necessity of removing from Jamestown to Westover by an alarm given by a Gally and one of the Privateer's that the Men of War were within a few Miles of us, we Immediately Weigh'd Anchor and proceeded as fast as Possible to this place; where we are now lying in Idleness untill we can hear from you, the Captain is under the utmost Anxiety to know in what manner to Act. I went to Williamsburg a few Days ago to write to you, but Mr Jameson inform'd me that he had wrote you but a Day or two before very particularly, that the Men of War were at Point Comfort, and that there were no possibility of our geting up the Bay . . .