Two of our privateers took a ship and a sloop from England, and carried them into the South-Bay, an inlet called Nichol's Gut; the ship had on board 5 gentlemen, their wives, children, servants, and household furniture, intending to settle on some pleasant part of the conquered lands: I hope we shall be able to settle them all as these are settled (viz.) in a [goal].
1. Connecticut Gazette, July 5, 1776.
