Volume 2
September 1775
[Saturday] 16
In Rebellion Road, So Carolina
at 7 A M Weighed And made Sail up towards the Fort but little Wind and the Tide of Ebb running Strong Obliged us to bring up as before P M Weighed & dropt further down the road
Date: 16 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
16th Septem. [1775] last Night a packet arrived from Capt Pearis who was at Congaree with four Cherokees who were waiting for you ー Mr Pearis laments your delay, represents the anxiety of the Indians & fears bad consequences will follow if they should return without seeing you or some person to Talk to them in your Stead ー this appears to be a matter of great moment & will require your... Continue Reading
Date: 16 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
My dear Brother I received your favour of the 11th inst. and have not time to congratulate you on your military behaviour, & but little more than to request that you will endeavour to encompass your ends without bloodshed.
I can no more at present than make you acquainted with two or three pieces of news in general ー [Moses] Kirkland is on board the Man of War (the Tamar) one [... Continue Reading
Date: 16 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
on the day following [the capture of Fort Johnson] a detachment of the Chas Town Artillery company under the command of Lt Heyward arrived with a Gin & other impliments for remounting the Cannon, the day being far advanced before things were in readyness for Work only three Cannon were mounted by the Artillery company, and as they were under orders to return that Night to Chas Town Capt... Continue Reading
Date: 16 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Septer 1775
Sunday 17
Capt Sable N B W Dist 6 Leags
P M at 4 brought too hoisted out the Cutter, Sent an officer in her on board a Sloop from Martinaco bound to Penobsket took 3 Men out of the Sloop & Sent a petty officer & 4 Men on board to take charge of her hoisted in the Cutter, at 8 took the Sloop in tow And made sail2
Date: 16 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Sunday 17.
[September 1775]
Moor'd off the Fort, Piscataqua River
Head Winds, & thick Weather ー made preparation[s] to embark ー
Date: 17 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The Enemy and we are very near Neighbours. Our advanced Works are not more than five or 600 Yards from theirs, and the main body of the two Armies scarce a Mile. We see every thing that passes, and that is all we can do, as they keep close on the two Peninsulas of Boston and Charlestown, both of which are surrounded with Ships of War, Floating Batteries, &c. and the narrow necks of Land... Continue Reading
Date: 17 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Sir With great Pleasure I have received and read your Account of the action with the Rebels at Stony town: I very much approve of your Conduct, and am happy to learn the good Effects resulting from it.
The Rebels are fortifying their Sea Port Towns, and are endeavouring to equip a Naval Force; they will really become formidable from their unwearied Application and from remaining unmolested:... Continue Reading
Date: 17 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Whereas many Rebel armed Vessels inf est the Coast of America particularly about Providence, Rhode Island, Long Island, Long Island Sound, Mechias and the Bay of Fundy, who have already taken two of his Majestys Schooners and several Trading Vessels; And whereas there are undoubted preparations to put to Sea a Naval force to oppose his Majestys Arms, in the like rebellious manner as they have... Continue Reading
Date: 17 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
You are hereby required and directed to proceed in his Majesty's Sloop under your Command to the River Delaware, where, by stationing yourself occasionally in the River and cruizing as opportunity shall offer between the Capes or on the Coast, you are to exert your utmost Endeavours to carry into execution the Acts of Parliament restraining the Trade of the Colonies and to prevent the importation... Continue Reading
Date: 17 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Sept 75
Sunday 17
Remarks in Boston Harbor
P M a Smart Cannonade from the Lines at Boston Neck on the Rebels and the Rebels on them in which the Rebels hove their Shot four hundred Yards within our lines
Date: 17 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
September 1775
Sunday 17th
At Single Anchor in Seaconnet Passage
Sent the Tender into Tarporlin Cove to bring a brigg at ½ past the Tender Return'd with the Brigg found her to be from Whaling Belonging to New York, sent a Petty Officer & 6 Men on Bd to take Charge of her In getting the Brigg out, they were fird at by a Number of Armed Men which was returnd by the Tender
Date: 17 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Sepr 1775 Sunday 17
Cape Henry No 2/3 Wst Distc 14 Leags & 2 Miles at 6 A M wore Ship at 10 saw a Sloop bearing N E b E at 11 Do Shortened Sail and brot too with the Main YSls to the Mast hoisted the Cutter out and sent her on Board the Above Sloop Do seized her for his Majy sent a Petty Officer & 3 Men on Board2 ½ past 1 P M hoisted the Cutter in and made Sail
Date: 17 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Inclosed you have a Return of the Subscribers to the Association, there are a few that have not yet signed owing to their Residence on Remote Islands in the Parish & have not been at either places when sent about to be signed, but we know their Chearfullness in the Common Cause ー Mr Leechmer, our Collector, is the only person that has Refused to sign, but he has given the Committee proper... Continue Reading
Date: 17 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Monday 18 —
[September 1775]
The whole Detachment embarked ー One of the boats just return'd, & informs the Coast is quite clear ー
Date: 17 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
1775
Sep. 18
To The Exps. of Myself and Party in reconnoitring the South & West shore of Boston Harbor [£] 16.6.4
Date: 18 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Sir. Your Favours of the 9, 15, & 15. Inst. have been duly received: The Readiness of the Committee to cooperate with me in procuring the most authentick Intelligence & dispatching Captn [Abraham] Whipple for this Purpose, is peculiarly satisfactory, & I flatter myself will be attended not only with Success, but with the happiest Consequence to the publick Cause ー I should immediately... Continue Reading
Date: 18 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
September 1775
Moored with Springs on our Cables in Chas Town River
Monday 18.
at 1 P M double reefed Topsails, and furled them in a Bunt, fired some shot at the Rebels, And they fired One from Winter's Hill, which fell short of us,
Date: 18 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Province of the Massachusetts Bay Court of Vice Admiralty at Boston
Before the Honble Nathl Hatch Esqr Deputy Judge, Surrogate, & Commissary of Said Court
Be it remembered that on the Eighteenth day of September in the year of Lord 1775 & in the fifteenth year of the reign of his Majesty George the third of Great Britain & King ー John De la Touch[e] Esqr Commander of his Majesty's... Continue Reading
Date: 18 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
On the 16th Instant, his Majesty's ship Swan, Capt. James Ascough, lay at Homes's Hole to Anchor, with a Tender. Said Tender being observed to take on board a number of Marines from the ship, and pursue several boats as they passed, and frequently running backward and forward by the Point of said Harbour, the People suspecting they were on no good Design, kept a Guard with about twelve Men, to... Continue Reading
Date: 18 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
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