The Offutt Family Genealogy - Image from the West Florida Collection, a microfilm containing records going back to when Florida, as well as other areas was controlled by the British during the Revolutionary War. This page in particular documents Alex Offutt paying it appears £4 for a droggiing pass for the schooner Philader? in Dec 1776; found on reel 2, covering boxes 7 through 9. (Drogging vessels, or “drohgers,” were “small vessels that brought cargo out to merchant ships or plied coastal trade)