obliged to you if you would recommend them to our house. We have it in our power to do their business on the best terms, as much so as any house in this Colony.

I have only time to give you this hint at this present time. In a few days I will write you more fully.

I am, for self and company, gentlemen, your obedient, humble servant,

Neil JAMIESON.

Edward and René Payne, Esqrs., London.

CAPTAIN LESLIE TO GENERAL GAGE.

Norfolk, Virginia, December 1, 1775.

SIR: The 28th of last month, the Rebels attacked the wooden fort mentioned in my former letter of the 6th of November, built to secure the pass at the Great-Bridge, and have continued firing small-arms at it in an irregular way ever since, without any other consequence than that of slightly wounding two or three of our men. The fort is defended by Lieutenant Wallace, one sergeant, one corporal, and twenty-five private men of the Fourteenth Regiment, some volunteers, and a good many negroes. Two four-pounders were sent to them yesterday; therefore I take it for granted that the Rebels will not easily get possession of that post unless they bring artillery against it; of which, by all accounts, they have not any at present.

I do myself the honour to enclose your Excellency this month's return of my detachment, as also a letter from Lord Dunmore, in answer to an application I made to his Lordship for a passage for the non-commissioned officers of the two companies of the Fourteenth Regiment, now at Boston.

The officers here, of the Fourteenth Regiment, having requested that I would apply to your Excellency for their bat and forage money, I beg you will be so good as to give directions for the payment of it as soon as convenient.

As a number of women and children belong to my detachment, and there is no method of providing for them but from the King's stores, I hope you will be pleased to grant them the same indulgence here as I am told they have at Boston.

I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,

SAMUEL LESLIE,

Captain Fourteenth Regiment Infantry.

LORD DUNMORE TO CAPTAIN LESLIE.

On board the Dunmore, off Norfolk, December 2, 1775.

SIR: I have at your request just now made inquiry if there was room for the non-commissioned officers of the Fourteenth to go to Boston in the sloop Betsy; but am informed it is not possible for them to go in her, as she is already too much crowded; which I hope will be attended with no inconveniency, as I expect General Howe will order the remaining part of the regiment to join you here.

I am, sir, your most obedient humble servant,

DUNMORE.

To Captain Leslie, of the Fourteenth Regiment.

Monthly Return of, Detachment of His Majesty's Fourteenth Regiment of Inf,ntry, GOSPORT, VIRGINIA, October 1, 1775.

SAMUEL LESLIE,

Captain Fourteenth Regiment Infantry.

Monthly Return of, Detachment of His Majesty's Fourteenth Regiment of Infantry, GOSPORT, VIRGINIA, November 1, 1775.

N. B. Captain Blackett died 14th October, 1775.

SAMUEL LESLIE,

Captain Fourteenth Regiment Infantry.

Monthly Return of, Detachment of His Majesty's Fourteenth Regiment of Infantry, NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, December 1, 1775.

N. B. Captain Blackett died October 14, 1775.

SAMUEL LESLIE,

Captain Fourteenth Regiment Infantry.

CAPTAIN FORDICE TO CAPTAIN URQUHART.

Norfolk, December 1, 1775.

DEAR URQUHART: Thanks to the bar of St. Augustine, for allowing me to receive your last letter, two days before the St. Lawrence arrived. I had embarked for this Colony, with all the Grenadiers, and as many men from the battalion as made up a detachment of sixty, including non-commissions. We sailed the 7th of October, and got here the 20th. Jonathan, with the small remains of the regiment, are to follow when relieved by the three companies of the 16th, from Pensacol. From what you wrote me there must most certainly be some unaccountable mistake with respect to our regiment. One would conceive that it never could be intended that we should be divided in the way we have been for some time past. I brought the sergeants and corporals of your two companies with me; and it was intended they should have gone by this sloop, but Lord Dunmore has acquainted Captain Leslie that he cannot give them a passage; the true cause is that he does not at present choose to part with so many good men.

We have been in great hopes of troops coming here, either from England or your army. What a pity it is that this Colony should have been so much neglected; a couple of thousand men would settle every thing here in the course of this winter. There have been no accounts from England or Boston since I came here. I enclose you a newspaper, which contains some account of our proceedings here. You will see by it that we have had a little brush with the Rebels, who behaved in a most dastardly manner. Redfern was the only man hurt; he received a shot in the knee-pan, which will render him unfit for service. A corps of about seven hundred men has been sent from Williamsburgh, in order to take possession of this place, which they are most exceedingly desirous of doing. We are throwing up some intrenchments, so that they won't find it quite so easy