Volume 2
Friday, the 1st of December. Fair weather still. Same Wind. At about eleven o'clock in the morning, we saw five sails. We sent our longboat with seven armed men to investigate. They have not come back. It is now six o'clock in the evening. We expect them tonight.2
Date: 1 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Mr Francis Malbone this day going on board Capt Wallace by order of the Council, in the Absence of Mr [Samuel] Dyre, He the Said Capt Wallace Immediately asked him the Opinion of the Town Relating the two officers2 taken the Night before in the Town & Carried to head Quarters whether it was not a Breach of the Truce, and was Answered by Mr Malbone that they were not taken by the... Continue Reading
Date: 1 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Last Monday Night, [November 27] Capt. Jeremiah Halsey arrived Express from Canada, to his Honor Governor Trumbull, at Lebanon, with the following important and interesting Intelligence, viz.
That on the Night of the 12th Instant General Carleton, after having spiked up the Cannon, and drove Balls into the Muzzles, robbed the Merchants of what Quantities of Powder they were possessed off, shipped... Continue Reading
Date: 1 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The Council was called on the 1 Decr but except myself only [Hugh] Wallace, [John Harris] Cruger, and [James] Jauncey attended ー Agreed that the Govrs. Permission to go home be made public ー I urged his communicating it to the Public in Writing ー Wallace joined me ー The Rest said they saw no use in it Suppose, says I, it procures a constitutional Application to Parliament upon the controverted... Continue Reading
Date: 1 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Committee of Safety for Decking the Armed Boat Experiment
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Date: 1 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
December 1st 1775. Solomon Butler of lawfull age being Sworn Deposeth & saith that Levi[n] Towns[and] sent for this Depont by Hugh Vestry that he wanted to see him and talk with him, that he went on the Tuesday Evening before Townsend went away, that he this Deponent was sworn to secrecy, and Townsend told him he wanted him to go down to the Mouth of the River, for that there was plenty of... Continue Reading
Date: 1 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The Deposition of Stephen Riley aged 28 Years or there about being duly Sworn on the holy Evangels of Almighty God deposeth [and] sayeth that on Thursday the 12th of Novemr 1775 being at Old Point comf[ort] he went on board of Edmond Scarborough's Shooner and arrived tha[t] Night at the afsd Scarborough's House, where he heard Wm Scarborough tell a Number of People then at Edmond Scarborough's... Continue Reading
Date: 1 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Dec. 1. A report has spread that Gov. Tryon and 700 Highlanders have landed somewhere below Fort Johnston, and have been joined by 700 men from this Province, and that they are marching toward Salisbury and Mecklenburg; Gov. Martin commands one regiment and Gov. Tryon the other. The news was brought by a traveller, who heard it from Capt. Zapfenfeld, who had been preparing to march... Continue Reading
Date: 1 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
A commission was also made out, and signed, of this day's date, appointing George Gabriel Powell, to be Captain and Commander of the scooner Comet, armed and equipped for the protection of the harbours, and navigation of the sea coasts of this colony.
Date: 1 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
In the present critical & distress'd situation of Affairs I cannot express how happy I think myself in meeting your Excellency in this Province a Pleasure I have long and ardently wished for. A mature consideration of the state of the two Carolinas and Georgia will I conceive make it very apparent that every rebellious measure which has been adopted in this part of the continent originated in... Continue Reading
Date: 1 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I am honoured with your Excellency's Letter of this Day's date by the hand of Captain Innes, and I feel myself sensibly obliged by your Lordships very kind & flattering expressions of your satisfaction on my arrival in this Province.
The Pleasure I enjoy in meeting your Excellency in your Government I owe to the prevalence of your Lordship's insistances with Captain Thornbrough to order the... Continue Reading
Date: 1 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
1775
November 27
In Rebellion Road So Carolina
First pt Mod & Clear Middle and latter Squally with rain PM herd two Guns fired in the Offing we answd it with One Gun
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AM fired a Gun as Signal to a Vessel in the Offing at 7 struck Yds & Top gallt masts and Veered more Cable ー
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at 6 AM Sailed the Polly Schooner with Lieutenant Payton & 20 Men
First pt hard Gales... Continue Reading
Date: 1 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I have examined the Papers belonging to the Sloop Ph[o]ebe, & from them & other Circumstances it does not appear, that Captain Broughton has good Reasons for making Seizure of her, added to this, Governour Cooke of Rhode Island has wrote a Letter to his Excellency by Mr James Aborn, who is realy the Owner of this Sloop, tho' she was, in order to protect her from the Enemy, made over to a... Continue Reading
Date: 2 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Sir It being now under Consideration of Congress, the Mode of disposing of Such Vessels & Crews as are taken Supplying the enemy, it is his Excellency's pleasure that Captain [Robert] Hunter & his Crew,2 return to you, that their private adventure be given them, with Liberty to dispose thereof as they think proper, that they be treated with all Humanity due to fellow Citizens... Continue Reading
Date: 2 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Charles Chauncey, Esq; brought down a Letter from James Sullivan, Esq;2 giving an Account of the Works of Defence in the Town of Falmouth, and representing the Necessity of further Provision for the Safety of that Town, and inclosing a Copy of the Proceedings of the Convention of the County of Cumberland.
Read and Ordered, That this Letter, with the Papers accompanying, be committed to... Continue Reading
Date: 2 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
One Vessel in the Bay was lately burnt, supposed by Lightening; Hank Green (at the Lines) said that it was a Ship the Juno, from Engd with Hay; by circumstances, I suspect she had Powder.2 ー
Date: 2 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The Mercury anchored in Nantasket Road from a Cruize, and the Cerberus came up to Boston to victual and have her Sails repaired &c. The Lively sailed on a Cruize in the Bay.
In the Evening the Admiral received the following Letter from Captain Hamilton, of his Majesty's Ship Lizard at Quebec.2 . . .
Upon the Receipt of this Letter the Admiral determined to keep the Asia at New York... Continue Reading
Date: 2 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Saturday last [November 25] Capt. Abraham Whipple, in a Cruizer from this Place,1 took, near Seconet, a Schooner from Boston, in Balast, Matthew Chub, Master. ー She had on board a Cable and Anchor for one of the King's Ships at Newport, where she was bound for Provisions, addressed to George Rome, now on board the Rose Man of War. The Prize has since arrived here. ー Capt. Arnold, of... Continue Reading
Date: 2 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
This is to Certify That the Name hereunder Mentioned entered unto the Continental Service on Lake Champlain as Sailers at the time Perfix'd against their Names ー
Oliver Hatch July 28. 1775
Stephens Fellows Sept 9th 1775
Date: 2 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
A letter from the Committee of Northampton, in Virginia, with sundry papers containing matters of importance being received was read.
On motion made, Resolved, That the same be referred to the Committee appointed to take into consideration the state of Virginia.
As one of the members of that Committee is absent, Resolved, That another member be chosen, and added to the Committee in the room of... Continue Reading
Date: 2 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
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