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To Brigadiers [James Lloyd] Chamberlaine & [Henry] Hooper, Colas [Thomas] Wright, [John] Weems, [Benjamin] Mackall & [Richard] Barnes, & Captns [Rezin] Beall & [John Allen] Thomas [respectively] Sir [s]
The inclosed extract from a letter of Commodore Hamond to Governor Eden (in consequence of an intercouse between his Excellency and the Convention) will inform you, that a Man of...
Date: 3 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir, Since our last we have had advice from Major [Thomas] Price our commanding officer in Saint-Mary's, that the British fleet lay near the mouth of Smith's creek in Potowmack, that they were very weak in Land-forces not exceeding 300 men, that they were so sickly that 50 dead bodies had appeared on the shores, chiefly negroes, and that having gone up the River Potowmack to take in water &...
Date: 2 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6