A few days since, Capt. Babson arrived from South Carolina, and brings advice that a brig of 16 guns belonging to that state,1 and commanded by Capt. [Thomas] Pickering of the state of New-Hampshire, went into a port of Jamaica, and brought off three large ships loaded with rum and sugar, two of which had safely arrived.
Deserted from the Continental Ship of War the Boston, Elkanah Elmes, John Hayes, Jonathan Stearns, Daniel Bain, Elijah Burnam, Andrew Smith, Michael Flanagan, Gideon Washburn, John Laden, William Williamson, William Crow, Samuel Averill, John Cumstock, William Shiels, John Cowling, Richard Sweetland. Eight Dollars Reward and necessary Charges will be paid for each of the above Deserters, by Hector M'Neil, on board the said Ship at Boston.