74 Journal and Correspondence

75, Fowey 25, Otter 15. Q: Did you know where they are
going ? A: No. Q: Dad you come up or did you drift
ashore ? A. I came up voluntarily. Q. whose property was
that in Vessel ? A. It was sold at Vendue. Q. Were the
people inoculated on board ? A. Yes. Q. Whose property
were the Molasses ? A. I bought part. Q. Was Gov. Eden
on board the B. Fowey. A. Yes. I have seen him walking
the Decks. Q. Did you know the Fowey was upon the
Eastern Shore? A. Yes, the Governor was not on board.
Q. Did they consent you should come off? A. No. Q. Was
it in the night that you left the fleet ? A. In the night. The
fleet was after wood and Water. Q. Have you plenty of
Bread? A. Yes. Q. Were there any Troops armed at G.
Island? A. No. No troops but part of 14^th Q. Do the
Tenders ply out in the Bay? A. Yes they were cruising.
Q. Did you know when Gov. Eden goes Home? A. Yes he
goes in a store ship. Q. How much stock was got upon
Eastern Shore ? A. The private Families get no share of it,
I saw cattle on Decks. Q. Do the Tenders go out in the Bay,
a cruising ? A. Yes, I have seen them out in the Bay.
Q. How long were they inoculated and was it done to
communicate it to the people on shore ? A. By no means,
every one in the fleet inoculated that had it not. Q. How
many men in the Gondolas ? A. Ten men on each side,
an old flat. Cap^t Hammond and Lord Dunmore at variance.
I dont think Gov. Eden has any thing to do with the fleet.
The Lively frigate at the Capes. Molasses at a bit. Good
W I rum at 2/2. Marines and sailors would desert but no
others, not 14^th Q. What distance Fowey from the shore.
A. Musket shot. Q. What number of vessels in the fleet.
A. 72, many small boats. Q. Did you not say that the Fleet
was going to sea? A. Yes, a signal given from Dunmore
for masters of ships to come on board to receive orders, that
they were going to St. Augustine. Q. Did you leave any
vessels? A. Two Tenders in the straights, 2. 4 pounders,
2. 2 Do. Dunmore 3. 6 p^rs fired & slipt her cables, the Otter
upon careen with her guns out. Q. How long was it after
the cannonade before you left it. A. Immediately, upon the
first discharge of cannon. Q. Where did you get Beef?
A. From Antigua, a Brig with 500 Bblls. a storeship with
500 do. Q. What ex^c did to your Tenders on E. S. A. one
man killed and 8 or 9 wounded. Q. money plenty.
A. Yes. Commodore Hammond the best man in the navy.
Cap^t Hammond will convoy them all out safe to sea. Q. Has
not Lord D. sent people about to communicate the information.
A. not to my knowledge. Cap^t Hammond not continue on
the Eastern Shore, to go to N York. Q. How many guns
the Lively. A. 30 or 36 guns, 11 shot in the Dunmore 18.