Volume 2
We inclose you B.L. [Bill of Lading] for 60 Hhds flaxseed, Shipp'd in the Snow Baltimore Capt [James] Clark. She touches at Derry. if Her Wheat is Sold there the flaxseed will also be Sold there, if not the Flaxseed will go to your Address in Cork you'll please to Sell it when you think it will be most to Advantage & remit the Nt proceeds to Mr James White in London for Accot of J. K. [John... Continue Reading
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
We wrote you the 8t Inst inclosing Sundry Bills Amotg to £533.1.8 Stg which Hope will all be duly honour'd, even give a little time for Some of them rather than to return them, (if made Secure). We now inclose you Hugh Young's draft on John Brown of Liverpool for £350 Stg which when pd pass to our Credit. Bills are not to be had now or Should have made a much larger Remittance ー We recd a Letter... Continue Reading
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The little hornet (alias master Squire) lately sent the following courageous letter to Mr. [John Hunter] Holt, printer of the Norfolk Intelligencer.1 As it is one of those great productions which never fail to characterize a genius of the first magnitude, we, in justice to that illustrious captain, present it verbatim to our readers.
[Here is inserted Captain Squire's letter of... Continue Reading
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Your Soul would go nigh to melt with pity were you Now to look over this Harbour, not a Merchant Vessell to be seen hut the unhappy Sufferers in the late violent Gale of wind ー Blue Ensigns in plenty stream all over the River from Gosport to Town Point ー The Mercury of 24 guns the Otter & King-Fisher of 18 Guns each, the Govemour present Palace mounting 10 Guns, a large Ship of Selbecks to... Continue Reading
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
You are to make the best of your way with the Ship America of which you are Master to Bridgetown in Barbadoes, and deliver your Cargo to Messrs William and John Thomson & Co. Merchants there, these Gentlemen are requested to use their best Interest to procure a full Freight for the America from Barbadoes to Britain or Ireland, and to accept of such a Freight provided she can be loaded in two... Continue Reading
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
September 1775
[Thursday] 14
In Rebellion Road So Carolina
A M Longbt Watering First pt modr and Cloudy Middle & latter Squally with hard rain. at 9 P M Sent a Party of Armed Men about 30 in No And dismounted in Fort Johnson all the Cannon
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
14th 7br 1775
Lt Col: [Isaac] Motte Recd Orders from Col: [William] Moultrie to hold himself in readiness to march with the two companies of Granadiers & Marions light Infantry. Orders being Sent to Capt [Thomas] Pinckney & Elliott to be in readiness with their companies, they were accordingly drawn up, with Capt Marions Light Infantry, & about Eleven OClk at Night March'd from... Continue Reading
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
A Fellow, Lempriere, is to be rewarded in [South] Carolina, with a large Ship, mounting several Guns, for an act of Piracy committed off this Bar, he is to be stationed to cruise off Saint Marys River, to intercept whatever Vessels are coming to this Province.2
No opportunity having offered before to convey to your Excellency an account of this audacious attempt, I beg now to trouble... Continue Reading
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Sir, In a letter to General Gage of the 19. July last, I mentioned the Savage Sloop, and Saint John Schooner, stationed on this Coast, and the Island of Providence; that the St John has been here only once, the others not att all. They Harbour at [New] Providence, out of the way of action, in perfect quiet; when His Majesty's service, calls for their assistance in these Seas.
When the St John... Continue Reading
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Having received orders from his Excellency General Washington to march with the above detachment, I set out on Friday morning, the 15th of September from Cambridge; dined at Salem, where I procured two hundred pounds of ginger, and engaged a teamster to transport that and two hundred and seventy blankets, received from the Committee of Safety, by order of Major [Thomas] Mifflin, Quartermaster-... Continue Reading
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Septr 75
Friday 15th
Moored in Nantasket Road
A M stop'd a Sloop with Rum & Sugar from Jamaica,2
Date: 15 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
When Captain Tollemache2 sailed I gave him Orders to seize any Rice Ship he met, and send her to Boston; he Carried the same orders to Captain Thornborough of the Tamer; I have Now directed the Commander of the St Lawrence schooner to use every means in his power to procure a Cargo, agreeable to your Excellency's desire. I will place a Sloop to guard the Mystick when 'tis in My power,... Continue Reading
Date: 15 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Vice Admiral Samuel Graves to Lieutenant John Graves, H.M. Schooner St. Lawrence, September 15, 1775
You are hereby required and directed to proceed in his Majestys Schooner under your Command to St Augustine in East Florida, and on your Arrival acquaint his Excellency Governor [Patrick] Tonyn that you are come to co-operate with him on the Kings Service, to assist his Majestys Land Forces to secure and defend that Garrison against the Rebels, to protect Trade carried on according to Act of... Continue Reading
Date: 15 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Proposals for raising An Army to the Westward and for effectually Obstructing a communication between the Southern and Northern Governments. ー
As I have by direction from his Excellency Lord Dunmore prepared the Ohio Indians to act in Concert with me against his Majesty's Enemies in that Quarter, and have also dispatched intelligence to the different Officers of the Militia on the Frontiers of... Continue Reading
Date: 15 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I observe that in the Cambridge Paper of Yesterday ー there is an Extract of a Letter from Bermuda to New York giving an Account that upwards of 100 Barrels of Powder had been taken out of the Magazine, supposed to have been done by a Vessel from ー Philadelphia and another from South-Carolina. ー This Intelligence appears to me to be true; and I beg to know your Excellency's Opinion of it as soon... Continue Reading
Date: 15 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Septr 1775
Friday 15
Moor'd in Rhode Island Harbour
at 5 PM Join'd Co the Charlotte T[ende]r with the Sloop Phenix, Jno Sheridan Master from Philadelphia with 700 Barrels Flour,2 at 8 came too in Rhode Island Harbr
Date: 15 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Stonington had been Attacked, and severely cannonaded and by divine Providence marvellously protected. ー
New London and Stonington are still menaced by the Ministerial Ships and Troops, that the militia cannot be thought sufficient for their security ー . . .
We are oblidged actually to raise more Men for their Security and for the Towns of New Haven and Lyme . . .
PS. The Glasgow and Rose Men of... Continue Reading
Date: 15 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The committee unanimously agreed to consider their order of the twelfth inst. appointing a committee to procure gunpowder and arms, and after some time spent therein, they agreed to continue the said order with the following amendments, to wit:
Ordered, That Messrs. Jacobus Van Zandt, Henry Remsen and Lewis Pintard be a committee to employ a vessel and despatch her with proper directions to... Continue Reading
Date: 15 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The Delegates from Georgia informed the Congress, that when the convention of that Colony agreed to enter into the general continental association, they resolved, among other things, "that if any vessels arrived from Gr Britain, between the sixth of July and the sixth of August, the goods imported should be stored and there remain until the Congress determined what should [be] done with them."... Continue Reading
Date: 15 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Commissions were this day signed by the President for the following Gentlemen as Captains, and dated as follows, viz't:
No.
1.
July 17,
1775,
for Henry Dougherty, of the
Washington.
2.
18,
for John Rice,
Dickenson.
3.
24,
for Charles Alexander,
Chatham.
4.
Aug't 1,
for Nicholas Biddle,
Franklin.
5.
2,
for John Hamilton,
Congress.
6.
3,
for Allen Moore,
Effingham... Continue Reading
Date: 15 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
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