On this day 250 years ago in Spanish Town, Jamaica, the Royal Governor reported to the British ministry in London that

the North Americans are amply supplied with Gun powder and other Military Stores by the French in Hispanola; which is sold at an advanc’d price by the Inhabitants who I find import great quantitys from Old France, finding it such an advantageous article of Commerce; But I do not learn that they get any out of the Royal Stores or Magazines.

Source: https://www.texassar.org/Arlington/docs/thisMonthInRev/11-Nov_in_AmRev.pdf

Also on this day 250 years ago in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Captain Ephraim Bowen, Jr. wrote General Washington

of the Return of Capt. Coit into this Harbour, with two Prizes, a Sloop & Schooner, from Nova Scotia Bound to Boston Laden chiefly with Wood & Hay, with Some Cattle, Sheep, Potatoes &c. The People that were on Board with the Papers will be Sent to Head Qrs Immediately.

Mr Watson has taken charge of the Prises, & Will Inform you of the Particulars of the Cargoes, which to our Enemies would have been very Valuable, but to us are not of much consequence . . .

It is thought by the People here that the Schooner will make a very convenient Vessell for a Cruiser, as She Sails Very Well & has two Topsails & might be fitted at very little Expence

Source: “Captain Ephraim Bowen, Jr., to George Washington, 6 November 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-02-02-0286. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 2, 16 September 1775 – 31 December 1775, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1987, pp. 310–311.]

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