Volume 2
My last of the 20th utimo from Point aux Trembles, advising of my retiring from before Quebec, make no Doubt your Excellency has received. I continued at Point aux Trembles until the 3rd Instant, when to my great Joy, General Montgomery joined us with Artillery and about 300 Men. Yesterday we arrived here, and are making all possible Preparation to attack the City, which has a wretched motley... Continue Reading
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
My Lord Since my last letters, by this same conveyance, We have advice by the way of Boston, that Montreal is in the hands of the Rebels, that they were assisted by the Canadians in this attempt, and supplied by them with Provisions; I have only to add, that Canada being in the hands of the Rebels, will deprive to Province of every resourse for supplying the Army, Navy, and the Inhabitants of... Continue Reading
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
By His Excellency Francis Legge Esquire, Captain General & Governor ih Chief in and over His Majesty's Province of Nova: Scotia, and its dependencies Vice Admiral of the same &c &c &c
A Proclamation
Whereas in prejudice of all order and regularity, a daring and traiterous Rebellion, against his Majestys Person and Government, at present Subsists in many of His Plantations, and... Continue Reading
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
To His Excellency Francis Legge Esquier Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over His Majestys Province of Novascotia and its dependencies Vice Admiral of the Same &CA
We Your Excellencys Loyal and Obeadent Subjects of the Towndship of Yarmouth think it our Duty and for our Safty to acquaint your Excellency that on Wednesday the twenty Ninth Day of Novr aboute ten in the morning Came... Continue Reading
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Pass'd this Town last Sunday [December 3], on their Way to Head Quarters, on their Parol, Mr. Colbeck, President of the Island of St John's, Mr. [Thomas] Wright, and Mr. Higgins, Inhabitants of the same Place, who give the following Account of their being taken Prisoners. About a Fortnight ago two Privateers belonging to Beverly, came to Charlotte Town, to search for Arms, &c. and took Mr.... Continue Reading
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I wrote Mr Moylan Yesterday to acquaint your Excellency through him of the progress we had made in forwarding the Ordnance Stores &c. ー I have since got all the Baggage Waggons & Gun Carriages put together & should have sent them off this Morning, but unfortunately could not procure Harness for the Horses, & the Harness that came with them is not arriv'd from Cape Ann. I have... Continue Reading
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Nothing very material has happened in this Camp since you left it. Finding we were not likely to do much in the Land Way, I fitted out several Privateers, or rather armed Vessels, in behalf of the Continent, with which we have taken several Prizes to the amount, it is supposed, of £15,000 Sterling. One of them a valuable Store-Ship (but no Powder in it) containing a fine Brass Mortar 13 Inch,... Continue Reading
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
For this Week past Fortune has Smiled upon Us from All Quarters, & last Night word was brought out of Boston by some Inhabitants who left it Yesterday, that a Vessel was Just arrived there from Quebeck. The Master of which Declared that Our Troops, Assisted by near 6000 Canadians, took Possession of that Capitol a day or Two After the Middle of November; that thereupon all the Ships belonging... Continue Reading
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I wrote you last Thursday and would have given a good deal that you was here last Saturday [December 2] when the stores arrived at camp; such universal joy ran through the whole as if each grasped victory in his hand: to crown the glorious scene there intervened one truly ludicrous, which was old PUT.2 mounted on the large mortar which was fixed in its bed for the occasion, with a... Continue Reading
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The Brig Kingston Packet ー Saml Ingersoll Master was taken at Barington in Nova Scotia on suspicion of being engaged in a business contrary to the Association of the united Colonies.2
His Excellency cannot be a Competent judge of such matters, if he was, he has not time to attend to them, he therefore Commands me to lay the papers which came to his hands, before you... Continue Reading
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
By people who came out of Boston yesterday we have an account, that the enemy are fitting out one of the Transports, who is to carry a number of Guns, & a large Number of Men, that the Guns are to be concealed in such a manner as not to be perceived untill a vessel comes so close, as it may not be in their power to get away, She is to carry every appearance of a Transport with Hay &c ー on... Continue Reading
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I have it in Command from his Excellency General Washington, to desire that you will examine the Harbour of Cape Cod, & see what Fortifications may be necessary for the defence of it's entrance, which when you have with attention & Accuracy executed you will please to make a Report thereof, at Head Quarters2 I am [&c.]
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Dear sir I waited on General Washington Saturday Morning last [December 2] & prayed him to furnish me with [a few] pieces of Cannon to help hoist the number I [intend] for the Privateer we intend fixing, the Plan pleased him but he assured me it was not then in his Power to assist me since which I have several Times conversed with General Gates on the Subject & this Afternoon he promised... Continue Reading
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Our Privateers more than answer our Expectations. since the Grand Prize I wrote Mr. [John] Adams of several other vessels have been taken, perticularly one from Scotland dunnaged with Coal and filled up with Bail Goods to a very Considerable Amount and Consigned to James Anderson, who by the way is become a Captain in Gorham's Regiment of Fensible Americans. it is said another Vessel with dry... Continue Reading
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The letter you did me the honor of writing me dated October 19th ー came to hand but a few days past ー the notice taken of me by the Committee of Congress appointed to collect an account of hostilities &c. I own myself indebted to you for, and you may be assured that I shall do every thing in my power to forward that business: A Committee of both Houses of which I am one has been appointed in... Continue Reading
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I have had the pleasure to receive your Letter Novr 7. notifying to me your Arrival in his Majs Ship Roebuck at Halifax in Quality of Resident Commissioner there, and also with a Commission appointing you Commander in Chief of his Majs Ships in Halifax Harbour in the Absence of a Flag or Senior Officer, I beg leave most sincerely to congratulate you on these Appointments and to express my... Continue Reading
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
December 1775
Monday 4.
Cape Ann So ½ Wt distance 12 Leagues.
At 1 [A.M.] soundings 57 fm at 2, 42, [fm] at 3, 34 do ground at ½ past saw a Brigg standing to the Northward, at 4 set Double Reef'd Topsails, Tack'd ship and stood after her at 6 in 3d reef of Main & Foretopsail & handed the Mizen do at 8 saw Cape Ann land W ½ N about 6 leagues and laid Maintopsail to the Mast, 2 sail in... Continue Reading
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Supernumeries borne for Victuals only being Prisoners taken on board the Washington rebel Privateer.
1775 Decemr 5th
Sion Martindale
Comr
Morrs Turner
1st Lieutt
Jas Childs
2d Lieutt
Consider Howland
Mastr
John Manvide
Surgn
Jacob Tyler
Mrs Mte
Willm Ford
Pilot
Ezekl Saunders
Josha Chivers
Stukely Bullingham
D[elivered] 11th Decr 1775 [to] Tartar
p... Continue Reading
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Gentlemen, Having recd from Mr. Jacob Watson of N. York one of the Freighters of my unfortunate Ship Peggy, William Barron Master, a Copy of the Resolve of the Honorable Continental Congress respecting the permitting said ship to proceed on her intended voyage with her Cargo of wheat taken on board at N. York, baring date at Philadelphia, 15 Nov., 1775, upon which I repaired hear... Continue Reading
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I arriv'd here yesterday, & made preparation to go over the lake this morning but General Schuyler reaching here before day prevents my going over for an hour or two ー He has given me a list of Stores on the other side from which I am enabled to send an Inventory of those which I intend to forward to Camp. The garrison at Ticonderoga is so weak, The conveyance from the fort to the landing is... Continue Reading
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
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