[Weymouth August] 7th.
[Extract]
...Am informd that a Jamaica Vessell with 300 Hhds. Sugar yesterday morning got into Providence taken by our Capt. Chase.2 ー Pray what is Hopkins Fleet about. ー Would not our Privateers do service at Newfoundland among the Liverpool Men.
1. Butterfield, ed., Adams Family Correspondence, II, 82-83. Continuation of August 6 letter.
2. William Chace, commander of the Rhode Island privateer sloop Diamond.
