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Dear Sir

I have just received a Letter from Mr [William] Hooper by which I have the pleasure to find you had got safe to Baltimore before he left it . . . I have been informed Three Prizes have lately Arrived at Newbern, one of them it seems was bound from London to St Augustine and being maned chiefly by New England Men, the Crew took the Vessel from the Captain and brought her in to this State, it is said she has a very Valuable Cargo on board, when she had got almost up to Newbern a little armed Vessel that was going out took possession of her and now Claims her as a Prize, Ought not these Americans who brought her in, have a large share, or must they be satisfied with regaining their Country & their Liberty and rest contented with the Character of Pirates which some persons have given them . . .