This Comes Express to all whom it may Concern, giving Notice that last Evening Came into Whorekiln Road a Man of War, not less force than
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forty Guns; this morning they took a Sloop at the mouth of Lewes Creek and my Pilot Boat, which was going Express to the Committee of Safety of Philadelphia, therefore, all persons along the Bay are hereby Warn'd to be on their Guard, in Haste I am yours,
Henry Fisher. Lewes, 26 of March, 1776.
1. Hazard, et al., eds., Pennsylvania Archives, 1st series, IV, 725.
2. H.M.S. Roebuck, 44 guns.