I embrace the opportunity of sending this on shore by a Newfoundland Banker, to acquaint you that I was taken the 20th of September, after losing the convoy 18 hours in thick weather; when they finish the voyage they are to proceed to Boston with us. They took one of the same fleet that day, and two since.2
1. Whitehall Evening Post, November 21 to November 23, 1776.
2. The George was libeled against in Massachusetts Admiralty Court, Middle District, October 24, 1776, by Captain Silas Atkins, Jr.
