Among the arrivals about this time is mentioned the ship Carter, with forty-four pipes of wine, "for gentlemen in this country;" and a ship arrived in the Potomac with a load of convicts. The Hector man-of-war, Sir Yelverton Peyton commander, arrived in the James River from England, by way of Georgia, whither he had accompanied the Blandford man-of-war, and the transport-ships which conveyed General Oglethorpe and his regiment. Captain Dandridge is mentioned as commanding his majesty's ship Wolf. "Warner's Almanac" was advertised for sale. According to a new regulation adopted by the deputy postmaster-general, Spotswood, the mail from the north arrived at Williamsburg weekly, and William Parks, printer of "The Virginia Gazette," was commissioned to convey the mail monthly from Williamsburg, by way of Nansemond Court-house and Norfolktown, to Edenton, in North Carolina. The general post-office was then at New Post, a few miles below Fredericksburg.
FOOTNOTES:
[414:A] By Edmund and Julian C. Ruffin, at Petersburg, 1841.
[415:A] Westover MSS., 4.
[416:A] Va. Hist. Reg., i. 119.
[417:A] He took with him a number of his neighbors, who had thus an opportunity of seeing something of war. Some of these men, on their return, soon emigrated to the Valley of Virginia, and afterwards were engaged in the Revolution. Among them was John Grigsby, of Stafford, progenitor of the family of that name in Western Virginia.
[418:A] Keith, 173.
[419:A] Hening, ii. 518.
[420:A] Va. Hist. Register, iv. 121, where a list of the members may be seen.