Glocester March 12 1776
Sir
This is to Aquant your Excellency that Last Sunday [March 10] Commodor Manley with Warter [Daniel Waters] [Samuel] Tucker & Ayrs [John Ayres] Tuck a Ship from London Jams Watts Commander 2 The Contence of Hur Cargow you have inclosed with Two Letters for Genl How, but thay Had the Misforten it being Verey dark thick night to Run a Shoar upon the Rox About three Miles from the Harbor of Glouster She is Bilged & Most of the Cargow will be Lost the Comd Manley Damaged his Vessel Verey Much Lost his Bowsprit but is Refeted, I Shall dow all in my Power to save what I Can of the Cargow I should be glad to Know what I Shall dow with the Capt & Sallers as thay have Know Ship to Cheap On bord I Rem Your Exel [&c.]
Winthrop Sargent
1. Washington Papers, LC. Sargent was Continental agent at Gloucester.
2. The ship Stakesby, of 300 tons.