On this day 250 years ago, late in the evening the 16-gun sloop HMS Canceaux arrived from Boston off Portsmouth. The sloop carried a small contingent of Royal Marines intended to relieve Fort William and Mary but arrived too late to protect the fort from its capture by the Patriot militia or to recover the arms and munitions removed from the fort by the militia. Moreover a local pilot from Portsmouth guided the Canceaux onto on sandbar in the Piscataqua River on which it remained stranded for days.
Sources: https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/HMS_Canceaux_(1764); https://nhsar.org/the-raid-on-fort-william-and-mary-in-1774/#[115]
Also on that day, 426 bushels of grain from Chesterfield County, Virginia for the relief of the poor people of Boston was received by Samuel Adams.
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