He was sent on the 27th day of May in the barges of the Lorie Frigate, rated at 30 but carries 50 guns, Thomas Brown, Captain, to Smiths Island at Cape Charles, to take livestock. The parties carried away one bullock and 30 30 sheep, and while putting them in the barges he deserted.

Abouth one month past the said Frigate with a transport of Provisions came to Tangier Island (see Islands of the Bay), then training to make soldiers at the Camp training seven hundred Negroes; the Negro women and children were sent to Bermuda and Halifax. While he was at Tangier a barge from the Jaseur Brig, then up the bay, came down to the fleet and brought information that the brig had one hundred Negro men on board who would be sent down the in a day or two to the Camp on Tangier. That Negroes were then on shore with money to entice the slaves to go to the ships. That after dark the barges were sent near the shore. The Negroes who wished to get on board made signals by raising a light, when the barges would go and take them off--a barge usually carried 500 men. He, the said Hardgrave was born in Boston, and at the age of treee or four years was taken to England by his father, where he had been ever since 'till he entered into the service 7 years ago.

The foregoing statement was made by David Hardgrave at Drummond town [Accomac], May 30, 1814. Same day the deserter [Hardgrave] was directed to go to New York where he said he wished ti get, saying he had a sister there, and was by trade a sail maker. I permit no deserter to stay in the County.

Tho. M. Bayly

_____.  Calandar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts From January1, 1808 to December 31, 1835. Vol. 10. New York, NY: Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1968: 333. 334.