They returned to Cape Fear on the 26th2 and from their Report; and a proposal from the Commodore, it is presumed the resolution was formed to proceed on the expedition to the Port of Chas Town.
Immediate orders were given to the Sphinx and active Frigates to sail forthwith for that place in order to cut off all further communication by water, and as soon as the rest of the Men of War and Transports had compleated their Water, the whole Fleet sailed out of Cape Fear River & anchored without the Bar on the 30th of May in the evening.
31st May
The next morning the fleet weighed with a fair wind, and were this day joined by the six missing Transports under convoy of the Ranger Sloop of War; and in the evening the General received his dispatches from England by the Ranger.
1. Sir Henry Clinton Paper, CL.
2. H.M.S. Sphinx and a small schooner.
