 Near Veracruz in the Bay of Campeche, the English privateers "White Lion" and "Treasurer" operating under a Dutch letter of marque, sponsored by Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, attacked the "San Juan Bautista", and took 20-30 of the enslaved Africans to Old Point Comfort on Hampton Roads at the tip of the Virginia Peninsula, the first time such a group was brought to mainland British America.English privateers had been flying under Dutch flags since the 1604 Treaty of London.The primary source document for their arrival is as follows