Wmsburg June 1. 1776.
[Extract]
...We build our Government slowly, I hope it will be founded on a Rock. Dunmore with 400 half starved motly soldiers on Gwyns Island, and 2000 of Our men on the Main are looking at each other as two Tenders are in the thoroughfare between Milford Haven and Piankatank to stop the Passage and the Fleet in the River to Protect the Island....
1. Boyd., ed., Jefferson Papers, I, 297-98.
