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"The city has lately been entertained with a most astonishing instance of the activity, bravery and military skill of the royal navy of Great Britain. The affair is somewhat particular, and deserves your notice. Some time last week two boys observed a keg of a singular construction, floating in the river opposite to the city, they got into a small boat, and attempting to take up the keg, it burst...
Date: 9 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
March 13. Tuesday last arrived at Lucea the ship Friendship, Capt. Fisher, a letter of marque from Liverpool and Grenada,1 and carried in a large American sloop privateer, called the Gen. Gates, commanded by one Casper Rowx, with a Congress commission, mounting 14 sixes, 2 fours, 12 swivels, and four cohorns, with 85 men. About ten leagues to windward of the isle of Ash, they fell in...
Date: 13 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11
About four or five weeks since, sixteen young fellows left this city in a shallop and a flat, to go down to Muskmelon creek,1 in order to purchase provisions; on the passage down, just below Reedy-Island, the shallop with eight of them on board, and armed with two four pounders and three swivels, was attacked and fired upon by a galley, with twenty-five armed men on board;—after...
Date: 21 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11
On Wednesday last, a rebel gun boat, with one three pounder, called the Fame, No. 71,1 was taken by the Pearl2 and Camilla's3 boats out of a creek a little above Reedy Point.
Last Thursday the Pearl's boats took two rebel boats out of a canal at Reedy Point; one a large long boat, fitted for a four pounder and one swivel; the other a yawl, fitted for five swivels...
Date: 25 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Yesterday His Excellency Sir Henry Clinton, K.B. arrived here from New-York.
Since our last a fleet of transports, from New-York with forage, and another from Corke, with troops and provisions have arrived in this port.
A sloop belonging to Messrs. Moore and Neal of New-York, who left that port with the fleet, got aground on Cape Henlopen, and became a prey to the rebels.1
Date: 9 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
Affadavit has been made to the following circumstances before one of the magistrates of the police of this city:
“The 11th ult. Roger M’Carty of this city, having gone down the river in the schooner Fidelity to purchase some provisions at Rheedy-Island,1 two of the schooners people went on shore; a few hours after which the schooner being hailed from the shore, thinking it was their...
Date: 16 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12