James Kennard, one of the Delaware Pilots has put into my possession, as Judge of the Admiralty, a small Sloop and a Negroe Boy, belonging, as it is said, to David King and William McDowall of the Island of Antigua, and from them piratically taken by the mate and brought into Delaware Bay, where the mate, after taking out the Captain’s Chest and plundering the Cannin, left her with only this Negroe Boy on Board. You will find the Circumstances of this Case more particularly set forth in the enclosed copies of the esaminations I have taken of the Pilot and Boy.

By the Register of this Vessel it appear that the mate’s name is James Burn, and by the Pilot’s account he must probably have landed with his Plunder and a Negroe Lad, whom he took with him in or near Musmillion Creek in the State of Delaware.

I thought proper to give your Honours this Intelligence that you might, if you think proper, transmit the same to the Governour of Delaware State, in order that measures may be speedily taken for apprehending the wrong-doer and bringing him to Justice. I have the Honour to be Gentlemen, your most Obedient and very humbler servant,