[Williamsburg, March 27, 1778]
I HEREBY give notice to Benjamin Strother, William Brown, John Pearce, William Roberts,1 and Joseph Brinham, of Westmoreland, and Reuben Tripth and Thomas Mathison of Loudoun county, that they must be at Fraser's ferry, on Mattapony, as soon as possible, in order to go on board the ship Delegates.2
C. SAUNDERS, Capt.3
Purdie's Virginia Gazette (Williamsburg), Mar. 27, 1778.
1. Benjamin Strother, William Brown, and John Pierce were midshipmen in the Virginia Navy. William Roberts also served in the Virginia Navy. All five would serve in Virginia Navy ship Tempest. Robert Armistead Stewart, The History of Virginia's Navy of the Revolution (Richmond, Va., 1934), 57, 157, 242.
2. An early name for Virginia Navy ship Tempest, building at Frazer's Ferry Shipyard on the Mattaponi River. Ibid., 57.
3. Capt. Celey Saunders, Virginia Navy.
