Wmsburgh June 22d ー 1776
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Dr Cr I recd yrs by Mr Page I stand correctd for my inaccuracy. last Night 217 highland Soldiers bound to Ld D ー e were taken by Baron [James Barron] in Hampton road & brought up to James Town arrived at this place [Nicholas] Biddle off the banks of Newfound Land made prize of this Ship and another with these Men on board & put them all on board Barons prize & 8 Seamen, havg parted with Biddle the Soldiers retook the Ship, 100 Tents 200 Mattrosses 3 hhds of Rum & several other articles are on board2 & the Ship sent up James River. 30 Sail of Trans ports with 3000 Men on board Sailed with her for Boston in April last
1. Philip Lee Folder, VHS.
2. William Fleming, writing to Thomas Jefferson on the same day, noted that "There were found on board the transport brought up by the two Barons [Barrons], 200 matrasses, 100 tents, 3 hhds. rum, and 2 barrels of Gun Powder." Boyd, ed., Jefferson Papers, I, 406. She was the ship Oxford.
