Gentlemen,

Before now I doubt not but you have heard of a small Brush that we had with the tender belonging to the Roebuck, on Esther Sunday [April 7] ー the same day the ship took a small sloop and brought her into our Road, where she guted and turn'd her on Drift, it being thick and hazy wether, we could not tell where she drove. On Thursday [April 11] the wind being to the Westward, the ship hove up and stood out to sea, in quest of her tender as we suppose, for she has not been seen since Tuesday last; on Thursday night she anchored of about East from the light house, on Friday came [down under] Cape May. A ship which I take to belong to Sam Fisher and Andrew Bunner, (of your Place,) when the Roebuck hove up and stood over towards her and took her; the same Evening I saw from the light house five sail comeing down from under Cape May, which I took to be the Hornet and Wasp, and three New England Schooners, they allanchored there that night. On Saturday morning the Ship Roebuck came into our Road, with the other ship her Prize, and in a very short time man'd two of her boats, and sent them over towards Cape May, as I judged to cutt some of them vessels out, very luckily for them the ship hove out a signal for them to come aboard again, which they did, or they would have caut a Scotch Prize and be Damn'd to them. On Saturday Evening, the five sail under Cape May, made sail and stood out likewise, the Roebuck after them, and on Sunday afternoon the ship returned into our Road, after an unsuccessful Cruise, where she now lies, without her tender; some People to the South of our Cape, says that they saw her tender taken by a Sloop, some days agoe. I have rec'd some orders from you and from Capt. Richards & [Leeson] Simmons, which I shall strive to comply with. Having no more to add, I remain [&c.]

Henry Fisher.