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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
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