New York, June 20, 1776
[Extract]
I this Evening received Intelligence of the 19th. instt. from Captn. [Charles] Pond of the Armed Sloop Schuyler, of his having taken, about 50 miles from this on the South side of Long Island, a Ship and a Sloop bound to Sandy Hook. The Ship from Glasgow with a Company of the 22d Regiment, had been taken before by one of Commodore Hopkins Fleet, who took the Soldiers out and ordered her to Rhode Island, after which she was retaken by the Cerberus and put under the Convoy of the Sloop.2 As Captain Pond informs, there were five Commissioned Officers, Two Ladies and four Privates on board; they are not yet arrived at Head Quarters; inclosed is an Invoice of what they have on Board.
1. Fitzpatrick, ed., Writings of Washington, V, 160-61.
2. The transport ship Crawford.