1. In a letter to GW of this date, John Bradford, the Continental prize agent at Boston, congratulates him “on the Acquisition lately made by the Arm’d Schooners Franklin & Hancock of a Brig bound from Scotland to [New] York with a Cargo Calculated to make the Winters Campaign more Comfortable to Your Army,” and he refers GW to the invoice sent by Ward for particulars (Naval Documents description begins William Bell Clark et al., eds. Naval Documents of the American Revolution. 12 vols. to date. Washington, D.C., 1964–. description ends , 7:137). This prize was the brigantine Lively, which the two American armed vessels had captured off St. John’s, Newfoundland, on 29 October. Although Ward’s enclosed invoice of the Lively’s cargo has not been found, a detailed list of the goods aboard the captured brigantine is in the Independent Chronicle. And the Universal Advertiser (Boston) for 21 November. Included are large quantities of clothing, part of which Ward sent to GW’s army in late December to relieve its acute clothing shortage (see Artemas Ward to John Hancock, 23 Dec. 1776, in Naval Documents description begins William Bell Clark et al., eds. Naval Documents of the American Revolution. 12 vols. to date. Washington, D.C., 1964–. description ends , 7:567). The brigantine carrying the cargo of fish was the Triton, which was captured on 7 Nov. while sailing from Newfoundland to the Mediterranean. The large West India ship has not been identified.