[Rappahannock River, Virginia] 22 Monday, April, 1776.
Last night an Express from H[obbs] Hole from Dr. [William] Fauntleroy to the commandg officer of the 50 invalids of the 5th regiment left at our Court house to desire him to march to the assistance of the town. A tender had, it seems, forced the New England vessel loading corn at the mouth of Piscattaway to slip and run for it, but she only got to H. Hole Wharf and was there taken without any resistance from the Town .... I was told that Bartlett Goodrich, a son of the old villian, commanded this tender. 2
1. William and Mary Quarterly, 1st series, XVI. 257-68.
2. The tender was commanded by Bridger Goodrich according to "Biographical Memoir of Richard Dale," The Port Folio, Vol. III, No. VI, June 1814. Hereafter cited as "Dale Memoir."
