Hartfield Transport Halifax Nova Scotia ー May the 9th 1776.
Sir
Please to Accquaint their Lordships, that I Sailed from St. Kitts the 20th of March in Company with the Royal George Transport, and Arrived here the 18th of April. The Hartfield is Cleared of her Guns & Stores and fitted as a Transport.
Hartfield Royal George Resolution William Spy Good Intent Three Sisters Argo Savill
You will also please to Acquaint their Lordships that the Henry & Esther Transpt was taken by the Rebels in the Month of January last, on her Passage from Halifax to Boston, loaded with Wood for the use of the Army, and Carried into Beverly in New England The Master & Crew are Prisoners,2 ー The Success Transport is gone to Quebec with part of the 47th Regt., the Isabella & Dorothy and Hope have been there since August last. the William & Mary is at Annapolis Royal, and the Transports named in the Margin[*] are at this Port. I am Sir [&c.]
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1. PRO, Admiralty 1/1611, 9, 2.
2. Taken January 29, 1776 by Washington's schooners Franklin, Samuel Tucker, and Lee, Daniel Waters.