The Homer, Dennet, bound for Hull from North Carolina, arrived at Dover, brings advice, that a large ship from St. Eustatia was arrived at Bath-town in the said province, with 400 barrels of gunpowder; and also a sloop from Eustatia, arrived off the Bar of Peacock [sic Ocracoke] with a quantity of gunpowder and musket balls, having information of two tenders belonging to his Majesty, sent by the King Fisher sloop of war from Virginia, being in the harbour, dispatched all the powder in pilot boats up the country. The said sloop which brought the powder was taken the next morning by the Tenders, and carried to Virginia, the Captain and Mate having first got on shore....
The Good Intent, Capt. Woodfall, from London to North Carolina, was drove off the coast of Carolina in the late hard gales of wind, and it is feared is lost, with all the crew.