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I have been in this harbour these five days and Could not get a pilot till this day to pilot me to York and I am oblidg'd to give him an extraordinary price, I Intend to sett Sail this Evening for York; I am Informed there is a fifty Gun Ship at anchor at the head of the shell [shoal] of York and at Cape Charles Twenty gun frigate If Captn [James] Nicholson gives me as many hands as I want I will...
Date: 24 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
This morning we waid from Rock Creek Stood down to the Bodkin Saw the fleet all Lying in the Chanall of Patapscoe Sent the Barge to the Northerd to see if any was father up the Bay She saw a Sloop which we think was a guide for the fleete which got under way in form and Stood all up the Bay in forme we Leave You to Judge where thay bound — there is a great Number of them Ten or Twelve Ships of...
Date: 22 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9