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This acknowledges the receipt of yours of yesterday's Date by Tommy. He arrived here about two o'clock, but I shall not think it proper to set him over, before the Evening, as they press every Negro that they meet in the Streets by Day Light in order to work upon an Additional Battery which they are erecting on Gadsden's Wharf. The Grand Armada is I believe at length all assembled ー On Saturday...
Date: 7 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Your Part of the Country no doubt teems with myriads of dreadful Reports concerning our present Situation. The grand Armada is I believe, atlength completed. It consists of two Sail, of wh but Seven or Eightare Men of War, one of them a Fifty gun Ship, the others from 20 to 30 Guns. The Remainder of the Fleet consists of Transports, Store ships &Prizes, amongst the latter our Coasting...
Date: 9 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Dr Sir/
You ask whether I ever saw a Letter so full of Queries. The Importance of the Subject would have justified more, but lest I sh[ould] equal their number in Lies, I shall in my answer confine myself to what I can vouch for Truth. I wrote you the 9th Instant when I informed you that Seven of the Fleet had come over the Bar. In the course of the following week they all got in, excepting the...
Date: 24 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I take the earliest opportunity of communicating the glorious News. The British Fleet & Army have both been shamefully repulsed. On Friday night last the ever memorable Twenty eighth of June between 10 and 11 o'clock the Signal having been given by the Admiral, seven Men of War & Two Bomb ketches weighed anchor, & got under way. One of the Men of War ran aground before she came up....
Date: 30 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5