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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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From Cork, April 16: Regiments 24th, 34th, 62nd embarked 26-27 March; 9th and 53rd on 3 April under Lt. Col. Fraser. 300 Germans arrived 1 April for incorporation into regiments. Fleet at Cove of Cork ready to sail under Carysfort and Pearl; Greyhound with stores sailed to Boston on 5 April. Significant desertions among troops and seamen.
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A letter from on board the Carysfort, Cove of Cork, April 6, says, "This fleet are under the convoy of the Carysfort and Pearl, and only want a wind to put to sea. The Greyhound man of war, Capt. Dixon, with ten ordnance store ships and transports, sailed yesterday for Boston. The desertion of the troops here upon embarkation has been very great, as well as the seamen from the different ships."
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Cork
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26th And 27th Ult. To 6th April
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the desertion of the troops here upon embarkation has been very great, as well as the seamen from the different ships.
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On the 26th and 27th ult. the 24th, 34th, and 62d regiments, were carried in lighters down to Cove, and embarked on board the transports at that place; and on the 3d inst. the 9th regiment, which lay at Cove, and the 53d regiment from Kinale, were also embarked under command of Lieutenant Colonel Fraser. The 300 Germans, who arrived at Cork, on the 1st instant, in the Ursula Anne, and Elizabeth, from Hamburgh, are disembarked, and next week will go for Dublin, and the other parts of the kingdom, to be incorporated with the several regiments. A letter from on board the Carysfort, Cove of Cork, April 6, says, "This fleet are under the convoy of the Carysfort and Pearl, and only want a wind to put to sea. The Greyhound man of war, Capt. Dixon, with ten ordnance store ships and transports, sailed yesterday for Boston."