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Huntingdon 9th July 1779 Dear TAYLOR By Capt. BATTY who takes charge of the prize sloop, Her deck is covered with lumber therefore cannot tell what her hole contains, also a parcel of staves, taken from one of our Transports on board his own Sloop, you will please to take an invoice of the several articles, & dispose of them imediately to the best advantage for the use of the adventurers, the sooner you transmit me an account of sales, the better in order to make a division with the Invincible Refugees. On our approaching the harbor of New-haven the Schooner Royal Charlotte & Sloop Genl. Prescott, passed the Fort under a heavy Cannonade & boarded a fine arm'd Sloop mounting ten Guns, near the long wharf. I imediately dispatched two other boats to board a new arm'd Schooner that lay up the Creek, but before they reached her the Rebels set her on fire; the arm'd sloop I have supply'd with Ammunition & provisions & mann'd her which makes a very considerable addition to our little Navy. For further news I refer you to Major UPHAM, who I suppose will write you, to whom we refugees are much indebted, particularly for his spirited exertions in the attack on a Village up Mill river, so called, also on a Village at Greens Farms which two places were destroy'd by the Refugees, one on the 7th the other on the 8th Instant both places contain'd large stores of Salt, Flax-seed & Grain that could not be brought off. I hope next week to transmit you the most pleasing Accounts you have yet recd. since the comencement of the Rebellion.
Adieu N.B. [on reverse] Messrs TAYLOR & ROGERS The staves mentioned on Library of Congress, Lovering-Taylor Family Papers, Container 2, General Correspondence, April - November 1779.
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