Volume 2
Your favour of the 4 Instant, I this moment Received, advising of the taking of a Captain2 & midshipman of one of the Kings Armed Schooners You will be pleased to take their parole, not to leave North Hampton untill they are properly discharged, they will be sent there, where there are several other officers, prisoners. As soon as the deficiency can be ascertained, I will Inform... Continue Reading
Date: 7 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Richard Emms, a prisoner at Portsmouth,2 having expressed a strange desire to go to his Family & Friends in the West Indies, in a schooner which is about to go there, you will be pleased to grant him a permit for that purpose, unless there be any objections against it which I am not apprised of. I am, &c.
Date: 7 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Wednesday 6.
The Island of Shoals NWbW 2 or 3 leagues.
at ½ past 6 AM hauled up the Foretopsail And brot to under the Mainsail for the Brigg at 8 Cape Ann: WbS, 6 leagues soundings 30 fm rocky ground, & fired a 9 Pdr for the Brigg to make sail & set Maintopsail. Moderate & fair at 1 PM Tacked Ship And out reefs of Topsails at ½ past shortened sail for the Brigg at 6 Thatcher's... Continue Reading
Date: 7 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The Tartar fell down to Kingroad. It was necessary always to have a Man of War there, or about Midway between Nantasket and Boston, to board and examine all Vessels passing up and down and to repeat Signals to and from the Ships at Nantasket or in the Mouth of the Harbour; but after the Battle of Lexington it became further necessary for the Protection and Security of Castle William, and for... Continue Reading
Date: 7 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I received your favour of the 27th ulto, wherein you are pleased to confer on me the command of a Ship in the Continental Service; which I cheerfully accept of, and am much obliged to you for your approbation of me to so important a command. Must forego repairing to Philadelphia, until I receive the Articles, without which it is impossible to engage either officers or privates. Should I not... Continue Reading
Date: 7 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Gentlemen This addresses you by my Son Gilbert Saltonstall it is impossible for me to wait on you with any Accts at this Juncture, being more than fully Employed with Forts now in Building, and supplying men by Order of Congress for a 20 Gun Ship at Philadelphia, to be Commanded by Capt Dudley Saltonstall who is to appoint all his Officers, and get all his Men in Connectt if possible, as New... Continue Reading
Date: 7 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Dear Sir, ー According to your request I wrote you sometime since respecting our machine,2 supposing it was gone to the eastward. On finding that on proof of the navigation one instrument failed performing what was expected from it I then by letter acquainted you the proceeding was delayed until that could be repaired; which when done, another proof has been made which... Continue Reading
Date: 7 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
We have been down in the sloop Liberty, examining the river as low as Slaughter's Landing, and find the depth of water, from there to this post, greatly to exceed the information we had had. We also took a view of Pooploop's kill, and found its situation the best by much for any defensive works in the Highlands. A little to the north of the house on the hill, is a place where a battery of heavy... Continue Reading
Date: 7 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
We have just heard the following verbal account, brought by the eastern post, viz. ー That one of our provincial armed vessels had just taken and brought into ———— a store ship from England, from which they had taken the following articles, said to be as suitable for our present occasion, as if they had been sent according to an invoice from the Continental Congress, and that General Washington,... Continue Reading
Date: 7 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
A number of applications was this day Read for Supplying the officers & men employed on Board the armed Boats with Provisions and other Necessaries, as set forth in an advertisement from this Board the 30th November last.
And Mr. Francis Wade having offered to supply them at the Rate of 4s. 11p man per week, which being the lowest terms,
Resolved,That the said Mr. Francis Wade be, and he is... Continue Reading
Date: 7 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Your Offer to negociate our public Business in the foreign West Indies is very readily accepted2 and we have no Doubt but that your discreet Managemt of it will be essentially servicable to your Country ー As it is necessary before you enter on this Service that the Terms should be ascertained we now supply the Omission in your proposal as to your own Reward by proposing that you shall... Continue Reading
Date: 7 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
You will proceed in the Sloop [blank] to Martinico, which is to be your place of Residence. & there having disposed of the Cargo, you will purchase on the Credit of this Province
Gunpowder
Gunlocks
Good Muskets fitted with Bayonets.
Lead. 5 Tons, Salt Petre ー Sulphur ー Gun flints
In the Purchase of these Articles you will be governd in the Quantity by the Proceeds of the several Cargoes which... Continue Reading
Date: 7 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
On Application from William Gibs, for Leave to Charter a Vessel in this River, to load with Naval stores, that he has at Cape Lookout & Bogue & intends to bring round here if allowed by this Committee, he having already obtained permission from the Committee of Safety for the District of New Bern, to ship a quantity of Naval Stores that he had cast away on the 2d September last ー It is... Continue Reading
Date: 7 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Mr President laid before the Council the following copies of letters which he had dispatched this morning, by George Dittinger:
Charles-Town, Dec. 6th, 1775.
Gentlemen ー Having received information, that through sickness of some and absence of other members of your board, the intended repairs at Fort Lytleton are scarcely yet begun; and knowing the necessity for putting that place in the best... Continue Reading
Date: 7 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
South Carolina
By this Public Instrument of Protest, be it known and manifest to all Persons, to whom these Presents shall come that on this Day being the Seventh Day of December One Thousand seven hundred & Seventy five, Before me Fenwicke Bull one of his Majestys Justices assigned to keep the Peace and a Notary Public by lawfull Authority appointed, duly Admitted, and sworn personally... Continue Reading
Date: 7 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I do hereby certify, that at the desire of his Excellency Lord William Campbell, I detained the bearer hereof, Mr. [Matthew] Floyd, two nights, on board his Majesty's ship Cherokee, under my command; as the circumstance of his coming on board with the messenger of the Council of Safety, made it highly suspicious, that he did not come with any message from his Majesty's faithful and loyal subjects... Continue Reading
Date: 7 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
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