Glocester March 26 1776
Sir
Wen I rote you last I was in hops of Saving the bigest part of Capt [James] Watts Cargow2 but the storm Cumming on direcley after the Ship was on fier that the Cask Stove against the rocks as sune as thay struck the Shoar thare was not one Cask Saved after I rote your Exellencey, below You have An account of what is saved Sum of the Cask which I thought was Portor is Veneger & Grout Should be glad to Know weather I must libel what is saved—
Last night at Sundown the Fleat about Seventy. sail past Our Cape Stearing about E B S Distant about six Leags I Remain Your Excy [&c.]
Winthrop Sargent Agent
1. Washington Papers, LC.
2. The ship Stakesby, taken March 10; by four of Washington's armed schooners. She ran on the rocks that night, and was set on fire by H.M. Brig Hope.
