Lewistown May the 7 1776ー
Gentlemen,
When I wrote you Last by Express I was under a great surprize for by the ships first Acttions I Judge'd they where a goeing out to sea on a Cruisse the wind being to the Eastward they stood up the bay as I apprehended to Weather the Cape till they had got at Least three Leagus up the Bay, and then they Bore away up a Channel Course therefore the wind being fresh and they haveing the start I thought it would be Needless to send of[f] my whale boat as she would have had thirty miles to Row - and that upon a Lee shore, Mr Sam Edwards told me that he had give his Men in his Boat orders if they saw the Pyrates Makeing up the Bay to Proceed up and Give the Alarm Even if they did not see a boat Comeing from below.ー
Likewise I wrote to Mr [Matthew] Delany at Cantwells Bridge to forward letter to Port Pen to the Alarm Post to Give the Signal, therefore I am in hopes that you got the Earlliest Accout of there Approaching up your River ー We have no Vessel at this time in sight in our bay. ー You may be Assur'd that I shall give the Earliest accounts to you If any more of the Pyrates Appears ー I am [&c.]
Henry Fisher
Excuse hast as Mr Sitgravs wates for this.
1. Committee of Safety, Navy Papers, Pa. Arch.