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The vigilance of my guards has occasioned the enemy to abandon their lines at Portsmouth. This, and some fire rafts I was preparing, has likewise occasioned the fleet to go off. They have thrown over their salt, burnt the most indifferent of their small craft, and are all now below Craney island, except four ships, which are opposite the distillery, but under way likewise. One of the 14th...
Date: 22 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I wrote you this morning that 30 sail of the enemy's fleet were moved down the river, since which it appears that their whole fleet is in motion. From our church steeple I can see 60 or 70 sail of vessels of different kinds, hovering about the mouth of James's river. What they mean is impossible to tell.
Date: 23 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I send you four men under guard, who were taken on Monday, on board a brig from Barbadoes, bound for Dunmore. Early on Monday morning, we had information that a brig was aground off Willoughby's point. Major [Andrew] Leitch immediately made all possible haste, with twelve men, on board a small pilot boat which was in the bason, loaded with tobacco for the West Indies, in order to examine what she...
Date: 26 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5