Located AtStaffordshire Record Office
LevelItem
Doc Ref NoD(W)1778/II/1373
TitleGovernor Josiah Martin to Lord Dartmouth
Date15 Jul 1775
Description"Cruizer" Sloop of War, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, (number 36), gives account of Howe's victory at Bunker's Hill as received from the master of a vessel just arrived from Boston, pernicious influence of printed papers circulated by rebels, is eager for intelligence and supplies from General Gage, it is rumoured that the Committee at Wilmington have intercepted General Gage's letter to him Captain Collets' just representations that he could not hold Fort Johnston with three or four men against a multitude have determined him to dismount the artillery and lay it under cover of the "Cruizer's" guns, the fort a contemptible thing, Cornelius Harnett, John Ashe, Robert Howes or Howe and Abner Nash are the persons who lead the revolt in his province and who he proposes should be proscribed the same as Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Massachusetts have been by the King's proclamation
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