[From Dr. John Trefusis
to Lord Dunmore]
Gwynn’s Island
July 1, 1776
To His Lordship the Earl of Dunmore:
Having received no answer from Your Lordship to my letter of the 30thult. I write again as I am in the utmost distresses.
I demand to know what measures you propose, sir, to recover those taken prisoner last week. I demand to know your intentions regarding this unspeakable affront to the dignity of His Majesty’s troops. An army sits idle here. Perhaps Your Caledonian Excellency might put them to use. That is, I am to understand, what actual men of honor do with armies.
But perhaps fondly mistaken is
thy servant,
Dr. John Trefusis