The Virginia Gazette

A letter from Plymouth, dated Sept. 17th, says: This day the transport from Boston came into Catwater, and a few of the men came on shore, when hardly ever were seen such objects! Some without legs, and others without arms; and their clothes hanging on them like a loose morning gown, so much are they fallen away by sickness and want of proper nourishment. There were near 60 women and children on board, widows and children of the men who were slain. Some of these I have met in the street, and they exhibit a most shocking spectacle; and the vessel itself, I am told, though a very large one, yet is almost intolerable, from the stench arising from the sick and wounded, for many of them are hardly cured yet. There are two more transports daily expected with invalids, who sailed from Boston with the above.