Then came Cap^t. Ignatious Fenwick late Master of the Ship Lydia John Ridgely Mate Stephen Gough Pilot, and Thomas Lawson Seaman and made Oath that on coming down Potomack River when they got off the mouth of S^t Mary's River, on Monday the Ninth Instant Between Eight and Nine ^oClock at Night they saw two Ships¹ lying in S^t Marys River, and takeing them to be the Enemy they then Tacked the Ship and Stood up Potomack in order to get out of sight, but by the time they wore aboute the Enemy was under Sail, and gave chase, and come up with them so fast that they thought proper to leave the Ship to get a shore as the Enemy was then near them at not more than three Quarters of a mile off, and these Deponents further declares that in coming down Potomack River when there were off Buttons Bay² they saw a Vessell which they took to be a Galley,³ but heard no Gun, or saw no Signal from her,

Sworn to before Vernon Hebb