[Philadelphia] Aug. 2. 1776
[Extract]
I thank you for your Account of the Prizes taken, by our little Fleet. We may judge by a little what a great deal Means. I hope We shall have more Power at sea, before long.
...Barry has taken another Tender. Another Prize is taken and carried into Egg Harbour, and a Vessell has arrived here with a rich Cargo of Arms, Ammunition, Flints and Lead, and dry Goods from Marseilles. She brings no bad News from France.
1. L. H. Butterfield, ed., The Adams Papers, Series II, Adams Family Correspondence (Cambridge, 1963), II, 73-74. Hereafter cited as Butterfield, ed., Adams Family Correspondence.
