A narrative of the life & travels of John Robert Shaw, the well-digger, now resident in Lexington, Kentucky . ever, are obliged to unload at aplace called Passage, five milts and a half from thecity, the channel not admitting vessels of abo\^ we entered in the begnining of Fe-bruary 1778, and were all separated and put onboard of different vessels. It fell to my lot to goon board the Alexandria of 24 guns ;—and shewas called a letter of marque, There were 19Englishmen, 8c 6 Irishmen who were brought onbokird iniro! ..-, and 24 Hessians, making in all 49in number, to do duty
A narrative of the life & travels of John Robert Shaw, the well-digger, now resident in Lexington, Kentucky . ever, are obliged to unload at aplace called Passage, five milts and a half from thecity, the channel not admitting vessels of abo\^ we entered in the begnining of Fe-bruary 1778, and were all separated and put onboard of different vessels. It fell to my lot to goon board the Alexandria of 24 guns ;—and shewas called a letter of marque, There were 19Englishmen, 8c 6 Irishmen who were brought onbokird iniro! ..-, and 24 Hessians, making in all 49in number, to do duty as Our shipscrewconi^isted of GO abe b< died seamen, besidesofhcers, one captain, 1st, 2d and vSd mates, oneboatswain, one carpenter and a cook and cooksmate. A fleet of tiansports then lay in the Coveof Kinsale repairing their rigging, and embarkingprovisions for America. Kmsale, especially intime of war, is a place of much bus^lncss, and fre-quented by rich homeward bound fleets, as also byships of war. The Cove is a convenient and beau-tiiiii iurbour, and lies, about seven miles from the. [ 17 ] city of Cork. The town is defended by a strongfortcalled Charless Fort; and on the opposite shorethere are two villages, called Co-ve and Scilly : theinhabitants of which are generally native Irish, andlive in low built houses made of mud, on a beauti-ful eminence, ranging with the barracks, and facingthe inlet of the harbour. The barracks are capa-ble of containing and lodging 12 companies of foot,besides a regiment at Charless Fort. The garrison,however, then consisted of only four companies,with 16 or 20 pieces of cannon ; and deemed suf-ficient to protect the town and harbour. We lay eight weeks on board before we were,ready to sail; during which time we were visitedby the bomb ketches, in order to sell and buy allsorts of necessaries ; for we had no liberty to go onshore, except two men at a time. We weighedanchor April 7th in company with upwards of twen-ty tiansp
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