To Captn. John Watlington
I have receiv'd your Complaints against the Commander of the commission'd armed Sloop from Tortola call'd the Reprisal with the notarial Deposition of Captn. Walter Burk & Thomas Tatem, which I shall immediately send to the General at Antigua,1 & therefore demand Satisfaction.—
P. Clausen
Ste. Croix Januarii 27th. 1778
LB, DNA, RG 55, Government of the Virgin Islands, Box 1 (Copybooks, Letters sent by Gov. Peter Clausen to Foreign West Indian Officials, 1774-84), p. 35.
1. Gov. William Mathew Burt, governor of the British Leeward Islands.
