Williamsburg, October 20.
Yesterday the Committee of Safety received advice, by express, that two vessels had arrived in Hampton road with a reinforcement of soldiers for lord Dunmore, said to amount to about 200 men. They are the troops which his lordship sent for to St. Augustine, and which, in our last, were said then to have arrived, some vessels having been seen coming in which were supposed to be those expected by lord Dunmore.
Last wednesday [October 18] lord Dunmore, with 140 men, went upon an expedition to Kemp's landing, in Princess Anne county, about ten miles from Norfolk, in a number of boats, and one of the men of war's tenders. They landed at a place called Newtown, two miles below, about dusk, and immediately marched up to Kemp's, where they broke open a blacksmith's shop, and destroyed about 50 muskets, which he had to repair, then fell to pillaging a number of other houses, and, by some means or other, got into their possession two officers in the minute service, and four private men. The chief object of this notable expedition was to intercept a quantity of gunpowder lately imported, which luckily had been carried off some time before, and is now safely lodged, out of the reach of lord Dunmore, and all his gang.