Continental Association
The schooner" Tybee" was often seen at Port Royal on its regularly commissioned coastal trade runs for Gordon in Beaufort. During the Revolutionary War, the patriot Continental Association suspected the brig "Beaufort" of evading its trade embargo against Great Britain by smuggling South Carolina products to Georgia. In the latter months of 1776, the "Beaufort" smuggled goods on a regular run to St. Augustine for Gordon's associate, the Loyalist merchant William Panton.