| Description | Whitehall, that Mr Bernard, brother to the shipbuilder at Deptford of that name, a planter in Tobago, having been captured and taken into Lynn in Boston Bay, and lately arrived from there states that before his departure he met a postman going from Boston to Falmouth in Canso Bay sent from General Lee with the news of the capture of Fort Washington on the 16 Nov, positions of Washington and Lee, confirmation of the news received by Bernard from the wife of a principal Quaker merchant in Lynn, the day he sailed he was told that the Town Committee had been ordered to draft every fourth man to send to the army but there appeared a general disinclination to the service |