Note 496 — Chapter II · (continued 2)

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.