Boston 1 September 1776
[Extract]
I am sorry to inform your Excellency that Captain [William] Burke in the armed Schooner Warren on the twenty sixth of August was taken by a British Frigate about ten leagues without this Bay. Captain Ayers [John Ayres] in the armed Schooner Lynch was in Company with the Warren but made his escape, and brought this intelligence.
1. Washington Papers, LC.