Volume 2
On Monday the following well known enemies to American Liberty, transported themselves from this city, in the Rebecca and Frances transport, Duncan Campbell, commander, in the service of Gen. Gage, for Boston, viz. Jonathan Simpson, merchant, and Samuel Waterhouse, addressers of Gage and [Thomas] Hutchinson, Doctor Benjamin Loring, late of Philadelphia, appointed house surgeon to one of the... Continue Reading
Date: 13 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
A memorial from James Stewart and Samuel Jackson, owners of the ship Friendship, Thomas Jann, Master, was presented to the Congress and read, setting forth that the sd ship, on the 28 of August last, saild from Maryland with a cargo of Tobacco, but being overtaken by the late storm,2 she was driven on shoals and much damaged, and got into Hampton Road, with the loss of all her masts;... Continue Reading
Date: 13 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I expect the Province boats will shortly be finished & their Station appointed. If it is to be above the Shiver de frees's, I apprehend they will be a partial defence, which ought not to be, as every person within the Limits of the Province is Intitled to a Provincial protection, the small as well as the great, which will not be the case with those below the station. With submission, every... Continue Reading
Date: 13 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I find Bermuda and the Bahama's are look'd upon by the Congress as W. Indies Islands, and no Supplys to be allowed them ー Our Custom House now admitts vessels from these Islands with regular Clearances with Salt &c to entry, which they once refused . . . our Ports are now Shutt up and no vessels to Sail, but a few that were indulged on Acott of the gale we had; among these is a Brigt of... Continue Reading
Date: 13 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
September 1775
[Wednesday] 13
In Rebellion Road So Carolina
P M sent the Cutter Armed on Board the Swallow Packet2 and took the Mail out to presirve the Governors Letter[s] Do The Governor came on Board Saluted him with 15 Guns
Date: 13 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
You are to detach one hundred and fifty men, under such command as you shall deem most proper for the service, to embark this night at a proper time of the tide, to proceed with the utmost secrecy, and land at a convenient place on James' Island. Mr. Verree and Mr. Wm. Gibbs will be at Captain Stone's, or in the neighbourhood, attending the landing, in order to conduct the Commanding officer to... Continue Reading
Date: 13 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
My Lord I was disappointed, of any oportunity of Conveyance, for any letters either to Your Lordship, or to General [Thomas] Gage, until the 3d of September; I had agreed with the Master of a Vessel to go to Boston, for fifty pounds, to carry my Despatchess and some live Stock to General Gage.
And just as the Sloop was getting under Sail, the Mate of the Vessel, I suppose having been... Continue Reading
Date: 13 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
A Ship of about 260 Tons, commanded by Capt. Flagg, laden with Lumber, &c. which sailed from Portsmouth, the Beginning of last Week, for the West-Indies,1 was met with and taken by the Lively Man of War, the Captain of which put two Officers and five Sailors on board her, in order to carry her to Boston. Soon after a Privateer from Beverly luckily came across the Ship, as she was... Continue Reading
Date: 13 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
By his Excellency George Washington Esquire, Commander in Chief of the Army of the United Colonies of North America.
To Colonel Benedict Arnold.
1. You are immediately on their March from Cambridge, to take the Command of the Detachment from the Continental Army against Quebeck & use all possible Expedition, as the Winter Season is now advancing, and the Success of this Enterprize (under God... Continue Reading
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The Flux that has raged so much amongst the Troops having required such Quantities of Rice to be consumed in the Hospitals, that we have but little remaining, and as it is an Article that will be greatly wanted, I should be very glad you would give Orders to the Officer Commanding the St Lawrence2 (now going to St Augustine) to use every means he can to procure a Cargo of Rice, either... Continue Reading
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I Received yours of yesterday and am Sory to find the Removing the Stock has met with so much obstruction the Expence must amount to much more than all the Stock is Worth if we had orderd the inhabitants to drove all the Stock into the Sea and the government a paid for it it would have been a great Saving to the government I would advise you to discharg all the men immediately but them that... Continue Reading
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I am favoured with a Letter from Govr [Jonathan] Trumbull in Answer to mine proposing a Voyage to Bayonne, in which he informs me that the Council of the Colony of Connecticut are summoned to meet this Day to take the Scheme into Consideration. ー This Sir is the Time to exert ourselves in sending to Europe for Powder, as the Vessels may perform their Voyages and return upon this Coast in the... Continue Reading
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Please to draw on the Treas[ur]y of the Colony in favr of Cap Robert Niles of the armed Schooner, Spy, for the sum of one hundred pounds, taking his Receipt, & also his sufficient Bond for the proper Disposition of this & whatever Money He may receive out of sd Treas[ur]y, in Capacity of Captain of sd Schooner, & his well accounting for the same, & Charge the Colony
By order of... Continue Reading
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
A motion by letter from the Honble Dep. Govr Cook of Rhode Island, proposing that this Colony join with them in sending to Bayonne for powder, and proposing a feasible way to obtain it by a French bottom and Frenchmen there &c., was considered; and on the whole advised, that his Honor the Governor make a complaisant answer and advise him that we have advanced and laid out so largely for that... Continue Reading
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
. . . I am in perfect good health, which I pray God to continue, till I can give a good account of that rascal Carleton, and his bloody backs ー I call them so, not so much for the colour of their cloth, as for their base and savage conduct in suffering the head of the brave Capt. [Remember] Baker, to be severed from his body and fixed upon a pole at St. John's, where it now remains, as a monument... Continue Reading
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
[Insert the Committee of Safety of New York's certificate of September 7 in behalf of Captain Isaac L. Winn]
As by the manner of expression in the above certificate, it may possibly be thought by strangers to the transaction, that the article inserted by the Printer in his paper, was the ground of the suspicion raised against Capt. Winn, and occasioned the pursuit, detention and examination of... Continue Reading
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Ordered, That the delegates for Pensylvania prepare and lay before the Congress to Morrow, an Account of the powder belonging to the Continent, received, and how it is disposed of, also an account of all the powder now in this city.
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Resolved, That the Chevaux de Frize be sunk in the river opposite the Fort, as has been agreed to; And that Capt. [Robert] White & Sam'l Morris, jun'r, be appointed a Committee to see the same done as soon as possible.
That the Boat built by Samuel Robins, be called the Ranger, & that Capt. James Montgomery take the command of her.
Resolved, That the Boat Built by John Rice, be called the... Continue Reading
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Sir/ Capt [Nathaniel] Falconer2 is arrived at Phila In him came Passengers my Cousin Mazy and Harriett Anderson's3 ー Mr Ben: Galloway came also and I saw him at Town yesterday. I have no Ltre but he informd me my Cousi[ns] wish to see me soon ー As no oppo[rtunity] offered Yesterday for Phila I could not writ them. suppo[se] I shall have a Ltre from Jno... Continue Reading
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
At the Recommendation of Mr Hugh Young we inclose you Bill Lading for 60 Hhds flaxseed, Shipp'd in his Snow the Baltimore Capt [James] Clark, if She discharges in Derry, you'll please Sell it to the best advantage. (we would not wish you to hasten the Sale), & remit the Nt proceeds to Mr James White in London for Accot of J. K. [John Kearns]. We are Gent [&c.]
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
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