[Philadelphia] 22d Novber
. . . News last night of Sykes new Brigg & its Sd two other Provision vessells taken & Carried into New-york by our British enemies: four or five sea vessells came up to day. there is Some Salt in one of them . . . one of those Sea vessells arrived this forenoon, its said is a large Ship a Prize from the Montgomery privater, but from where did not learn &c &c 2
1. Diary of Christopher Marshall, HSP.
2. The prize was the ship King George, Edmund Williams, master, from Jamaica for London, with a cargo of gold dust, ivory, rum and sugar. She was taken by the Pennsylvania privateer brig General Montgomery, Captain James Montgomery, Maryland Journal, November 27, 1776.
