Richard Grinnell to the American Commissioners
ALS: American Philosophical Society
<Guernsey, September 15, 1778: Captain Peter Collas and I
sailed with Captain [Corbin] Barnes from Paimboeuf August
29. We were captured September 1 by Captain Abraham
Bushall who treated us like brothers. We fell in with Captain
Niles whose schooner Spy had been taken by a Jersey privateer.
Niles and Barnes succeeded in throwing all papers overboard.
Barnes is still on the privateer. You will receive this
through the son of the Mr. Dobrée who resides here.>
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