Volume 2
I have the pleasure to Inform your Exc[e]llency that Capt Manly in your Schr Lee, Brought into the Mouth of Marblehead harbour this Morning, the Ship Concord James Lowrie Master from Glassco; the Invoices and all the papers on Board her have Sent forward By Capt Richd James, the Ship Immeadatly on her Comeing into Marblehead, order her, to Beverly, as She was Turning in, got a ground on the Bar,... Continue Reading
Date: 3 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Capt Manly in the Privar, from beaverly came a cross 2 large transports from London, one of which he board'd & took, her cargo amounted in value to Fifteen Thounsand pounds Ster lg and carrd her safe into Cape Ann, her cargo was as follows,
1 Large brass 15 Inch Mortar already fixd for service
A Number of smaller ditto fixd
A Number of Brass
Cannon
from
24 lb down
to 4 lb
with carrages... Continue Reading
Date: 3 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Long before the Receipt of this You will have heard by Express from the General, of the important Prize we have made in the Capture of the Brig Nancy loaded with Ordnance Stores for the Army at Boston. Orders were given that she should be unloaded with all possible Expedition & we have now the greatest Part of her Cargo safely housed in the Labratory here.2 The loss must be very... Continue Reading
Date: 3 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Providence seems to be Engaged for us. the same Spirit & determination prevails to Conquer all difficulties. many Prizes have been taken by our Cruisers. & a Capital one last week carried into Cape Ann. of very great value perhaps £20,000 sterling a Brigt from England with a Cargo Consisting of almost every Species of Warlike store[s] except powder & Cannon 2000 very fine small arms... Continue Reading
Date: 3 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
By the General Gage Sloop who left Quebec the 9th of November and arrived here last Night, I received a Letter from Captain Hamilton of his Majesty's Ship Lizard, who got up the 5th of November with the Jacob, and Elizabeth Brigs, laden with Arms, Ammunition, Cloathing &c. for the King's Army under General Carleton. Capt. Hamilton writes me the disagreeable News that the Garrison of St John's... Continue Reading
Date: 3 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
3d December 1775
Names
Guns
Commanders
Complement
Station
Vice Adml Graves
Preston
50
Capt. John Robinson
300
Off the Town
In Boston Harbour
Boyne
70
Hartwell
500
Kingroad
Scarborough
20
Barkley
130
In Charles River
Cerberus
28
Symons
160
Off the Town
Tartar
28
Medows
160
Mercury
20
Graeme
130
At Nantasket
Falcon Sloop
14
Linzee
100
Gallows... Continue Reading
Date: 3 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I learn the Nancy Brigantine an Ordnance Transport ー having on Board 4000 Stand of Arms complete 100,000 Flints, a Thirteen Inch Mortar with other Stores in Proportion, was taken in the Bay last week by the Rebels Privateers, and affords an Instance for this Necessity.2 The Circumstance is rather unfortunate to us, as they are now furnished with all the Requisites for setting the Town... Continue Reading
Date: 3 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The good success of our Privateers, which you will hear before this reaches you, is very encouraging, and, I hope it will stimulate the seafaring Gentlemen to greater exertions in that way. I think we have a prospect of important advantages from exertions by sea, and I hope, with you Sir, this will be done by the Colonies separately, as, for many reasons, that greater advantages will arise... Continue Reading
Date: 3 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I expected to have had the Honour of seeing you again soon as I promised you but the affairs of Government do not permit me to absent myself at present.
Mr Pennet [Pierre Penet] & myself shall dine to morrow with Mr [Samuel] Ward to whom we have the Letter which a Merchant of your place gave us on your account.
We were dissapointed at not finding your Brother at Phila he went from hence the... Continue Reading
Date: 3 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
This Day I shall enjoy Myself highly; next to the Pleasure of being at home is that of seeing our Friends when abroad; Govr Hop[kins], his Bror [Esek] and Son, [John Burroughs Hopkins], the Comee for Accts2 and Capt Whipple all do Me the Favor to dine with Me; never did I expect the Pleasure of seeing so many of my Countrymen on this Side Rhodeisland. I shall be happy if the Afternoon... Continue Reading
Date: 3 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
This is to whom it may concern, that I, John Trevett, sailed from Providence in a Sloop called the Catea [Katy], Commanded by Abram Whipple, E[sq.], of Providence, with a number of passengers, to sail with a fleet of armed vessels fixing at Philidelphia, in the month of Nov. 1775. Arrived there the same month, and found 1 Ship called the Alfred, 1 Ship called the Columbus, 1 Brig called the... Continue Reading
Date: 3 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
December 1775
Saturday 2nd
Fial [Fayal] No 62° East 542 Leagues
at 6 A M made the Signal for the Convoy to come under our Stern at 7 Do took them in Tow and made Sail ー at Noon a strange Sail to the No ward ー Do Convoy in Tow and Prize Sloop in Company ー2 at 2 P M brought too & sent a Boat on board the strange Sail ー the Brig Peter ー Thos Egger Master from St Ubes to New York... Continue Reading
Date: 3 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I think it my duty to acquaint your Excellency that in compliance with your instructions I proceeded as far as Annapolis Royal in my way to St John's River that during the course of seventeen days I repeatedly attempted to cross the Bay of Fundy but was each time drove back into the Basin of Annapolis by contrary winds ー that as the beginning of the Winter had been uncommonly severe from violent... Continue Reading
Date: 4 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Lieutenant [John] Orde of his Majesty's Ship under my command has acquainted me by letter of this date, that he has in my absence, confined the Boatswain for disobedience of Orders, contempt to his Superior officers & for using mutinous expresss
I am therefore to request you will be pleas'd (when opportunity offers) to order a Court Martial to be held on the said Boatswain to try him for... Continue Reading
Date: 4 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Sir I had the Honor of writing to you the 30th. Ulto. inclosing an Inventory of the Military Stores taken on board the Brigantine Nancy by Capt. Manly of the Armed Schooner Lee. ー I have now to inform you that he has since sent into Beverly a Ship named the Concord, James Lowrie Master from Greenock in Scotland bound to Boston she has on board Dry Goods and Coals to the value of £... Continue Reading
Date: 4 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I am commanded by his Excellency to Inform you that he does not consider the sloop at Cape Anne sent in by Captn Broughton, to be a prize & that he does not wish to have any thing to do with her. There should always be great care taken, that cargoes brought in, should not be injured or Embezzled ー It appears that the Vessel belongs to Genl [Nathanael] Greene & he will dispose of her as he... Continue Reading
Date: 4 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I am commanded by his Excellency to inform you that he received your favors of the 1 & 3 Instant, & that your activity & conduct merit his approbation He is much Obligd to the people who have afforded their assistance in securg this valuable Prize & for the alertness thev'e discov[ered] & zeal for the service of their Country ー You will be pleased to spare the Committee a few... Continue Reading
Date: 4 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I am commanded by his Excellency to acknowledge the Receipt of your favor of the 3 Inst, givg an account of Captn Manly's taking the ship Concord from Glasgow with Goods for Boston ー His Excellency has no doubt, but as the Enemy are seizing & making prizes of our Vessels every day, that Reprizals should be made; But not thinking himself authorized to declare vessels taken, transporting Goods... Continue Reading
Date: 4 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The reason you did not see your friends upon the lines the day you went down was, it was agreed soon after the first Letters came out, that the small pox should go thro' the town, and accordg that day was appointed by (How[e]) that. the inoculation should take place, wch accordy did & they within conclud'd that it would be best Polley with the other children should take it, & they all... Continue Reading
Date: 4 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Dear sir I recd your Favour of the 5th of Novr & the Enquiries relative to Vessels suitable to be armed, Commanders & Seamen to man the same, secure places for building new Vessels of Force &care important in their Nature, & to have the same effectually answered I propose to submit them as soon as may be to the Court that a Committee may be raised for obtaining the Facts from the... Continue Reading
Date: 4 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
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