1. Huntington enclosed a report from Board of Admiralty commissioner Francis Lewis presented on this date: “Mr syms in conversation with two British Captains at the Havanna was by them informed that the terms of capitulation for the surrender of Pensycola were; The Garrison to be sent to New York at the charge of his Catholick Majesty, and not to serve against spain or its Allies, till exchanged. A Spanish Officer present contradicted the assertion, whereupon one of the British, proposed a wager of fifty Guineas that those were the terms, which the spanish Officer declined.

“Mr symes further informs that some transports with Prisoners on board sailed for New York at the time he left the Havanna, and that both Officers & privates were to be sent to New York” (DLC:GW). This intelligence also appears in The Pennsylvania Packet or, the General Advertiser (Philadelphia) for 30 June. In his diary entries for 5 and 6 July, British captain John Peebles, then on Long Island, reported the arrival in New York City of British prisoners taken at Pensacola upon its surrender in early May (see Gruber, Peebles’ American War description begins Ira D. Gruber, ed. John Peebles’ American War: The Diary of a Scottish Grenadier, 1776–1782. Mechanicsburg, Pa., 1998. description ends , 457; see also Francisco Rendon to GW, 12 June, and n.2 to that document).

2. GW expressed concern in his reply to Huntington on 10–11 July, postscript (DNA:PCC, item 152).