This morning arrived a sloop mounting six three pounders, and eight or ten swivels, late a tender 2 belonging to the Liverpool man of war, and commanded by a Lieutenant Boucher, 3 of said sloop, having thirty five picked men on board, who on Saturday last off the Capes of Virginia, fell in with Capt. Barry of the Continental Brig called the Lexington. A battle ensued, which was continued desperately for one hour and twenty minutes, when the tender struck. Capt. Barry lost two men killed and had four wounded. The other, one man killed and one wounded.
1. New-York Journal, April 18, 1776.
2. The Edward.
3. Lieutenant Richard Boger.
