Memorandum 1778

On Sunday April 26^th 1778, in the afternoon in M^r. Adams’s Chamber, D^r. Bancroft told M^r. Adams & M^r. Lee that the destination of Count d’Estaign’s fleet was for N. York to get possession first of the transports & merchant goods, before they attackd Philadelphia. That the Court had been advisd to pursue this plan, & unless there had been some subsequent alteration, he was sure of its being so.