[Watertown] April 3, 1776.
[Extract]
No news since I wrote the above, 2 only that the [British] fleet have steered eastward, and one of the Tory sloops is ashore on Cape Cod with a large quantity of English goods, and Black Jolly Allen and some other Tories. 3 We have had a false alarm from Newport. I recollect nothing else Your ships I fear will, when. done, wait for men. It will take time to enlist them. 4
1. Warren-Adams Letters, I, 219-20.
2. This is a postscript to a letter begun March 30, 1776.
3. See petition of Selectmen of Provincetown, April 3, 1776.
4. Warren may have been referring to the whole program for building thirteen frigates, or he may have meant only the two under construction at Newburyport.
