[495] Moore's Diary, i. 179. Dawson, Battles, gives contemporary reports (i. 121, 125); Maxwell's Virginia Register, vol. vi. p. 1.
[496] Moore's Diary of the Rev., i. 189. There are in the Sparks MSS., no. xxxviii., various letters in 1775 and 1776 respecting Lord Dunmore's proceeding in Norfolk, and, after Aug., 1776, in New York. A letter in Nov., 1775, shows that he had given orders to raise a regiment of savages, to be called "Lord Dunmore's own regiment of Indians." On the other hand, Arthur Lee was making interest with Vergennes in Paris, to secure ammunition for Virginia. Calendar Lee MSS., p. 7, no. 65. An Orderly book of that portion of the American Army near Williamsburg, Va., under Gen. Andrew Lewis, Mar. 18 to Aug. 28, 1776 (Richmond, 1860), with notes by C. Campbell, covers some of the patriots' movements at this time.
[497] Husband of Flora Macdonald. Cf. The Autobiography of Flora Macdonald, being the home life of a heroine, edited by her granddaughter, Edinburgh, 1870; London,1875; Bentley's Mag., xix. 325; Amer. Hist. Record, i. 109, etc.; Mrs. Ellet's Women of the Rev., ii. 142.
[498] David L. Swain published a paper on "the British invasion of North Carolina in 1776" in the University Magazine (Chapel Hill, N. C.), which was afterwards included in W. D. Cooke's Rev. Hist. of North Carolina (1853). Cf. Dawson's Battles, i. 128, with the official documents; Sparks's Corresp. of the Rev., ii. App.; Frothingham's Rise of the Republic, 502; Harper's Mag., lx. 682; Gay, Pop. Hist. U. S., iii. 465; Mrs. Ellet's Women, etc., i. 316; the Tory account in Jones's N. Y. during the Rev., i. 95; and an Address on the battle of Moore's Creek bridge, Feb. 27, 1857, by Joshua G. Wright (Wilmington, N. C., 1857).
[499] Corresp. of the Rev., i. 161; N. Y. Hist. Coll., 1871, p. 343. It seems to have been the determination in March to send him north. Adams, Familiar Letters, p. 135.
[500] Sparks's Corresp. of the Rev., i. 485, etc.
[501] Corresp. of the Rev., ii. 501. Cf. Lee Papers in N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1872, and Sparks MSS., no. xxv.
[502] Letter of W. A. Hyrne in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., April, 1870, p. 254; and one of Jacob Morris, June 10, noting preparations, in N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1875, p. 435. Lee had at first wished to abandon the fort. Ibid., 1872, p. 221.
[503] It was the favorable report of a reconnoitering vessel sent from Cape Fear to Charleston that induced Clinton to attack Charleston instead of joining Howe at once. P. O. Hutchinson's Governor Hutchinson, ii. 96.
[504] See an account of the effects of the fort's fire given by some Americans who had been captured at sea, and escaped. (N. Y. Hist. Coll., 1872, p. 111.)