[Annapolis] April 5 1776
[Extract]
No. 109
To the Deputies of Maryland in Congress
We shall ... have the affidavits made out you desire for ascertaining the Time Hudsons Ship w~s in Possession of the Tenders. She left Patapsco River ten or twelve Days ago, and as we have heard Nothing of her since, we hope she is out of the Bay by this Time
PS Saturday Morng April 6 We are Sorry to Inform you that We have this Instant Received Intelligence that Hudsons Ship was Taken Last Wednesday morning [April 3] by two Tenders belonging to the Otter. We are apprehensive that we have Likewise Lost one of our Provincial Vessels
1. Red Book, IV, Md. Arch.