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their arrival properly. And Sir Richard Bickerton can give Your Lordship farther
information if You please to Shew Him this letter, in respect to the Situation or
Navigation to Bermuda. My Lord since Delegates have been chose here, and
the Congress at Philadelphia Petitioned under pretence that they might want
Provisions, notwithstanding they had at that time more than they could either
purchase or consume in Six or 8 Months, it is much to be feared, that the Inhabitants
either of Philadelphia or South Carolina, might be encouraged to come
here, and taken the Powder, and leave Bread, flour, or Rice in lieu.
Since these Delegates have been Appointed, at first at the Sudden Instigation
of a few, there seems to be but very few friends to Government. And our Sloops
may be imployed against His Majestys Troops, or good Subjects next, or the
Cannon taken away.
I don't as yet know how I shall get this letter Conveyed to Your Lordship,
as they have prevented any Person from hiring or chartering their Vessel to Me,
either to send to Boston or anywhere else.
I am in very great Grief and Anxiety My Lord, for in the Rebels News
papers, altho' very erroneous, and many falsehoods in them, both my Sons, very
promising Youths, are Said to be Killed, and I know nothing to the Contrary.
I have the Honor to be My Lord [&c.]
George Ja-ruere
1. PRO, Colonial Office, Class 37/36, 808.
2. Zbid. The ship Industry, which was wrecked off Bermuda in late August or September 1774,
and which is described in a letter from Bruere to Dartmouth, dated January 24, 1775.