[Philadelphia]
Yesterday the ship Sam, lately commanded by Samuel Richardson, was sent into this port; she was taken on her passage from Barbados to Liverpool by the Continental sloop Independence, Capt. Young, was mounted with four guns, and had on board 20,000 dollars, two tons and a half of ivory, 100 bars of iron, &c. 1
1. Congress resolved that if the cannon on board the Sam "arc fit for field artillery, to take measures to have them mounted on proper carriages; and sent to General Washington." Ford, ed., JCC, VI, 982.
