Volume 1
At a Meeting of the Committee of Inspection for Baltimore County the 13th of March 1775
Upon Motion ordered that the form of an Oath, to be Taken by all Masters of Vessels, be drawn up, and the same being drawn up and approved; Ordered that the same be entered in the Minutes of the Proceedings and that every Captain take and subscribe the same.ー
You A B do make Oath on the Holy Evangels of... Continue Reading
Date: 13 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On Monday last [March 6] his Majesty's sloop Tamer, commanded by Capt. [Edward] Thornborough, fell down into Rebel[lion] Road, where she remains.
Date: 13 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
March 1775
Tuesday 14
A M sent an Officer & 10 Men in a Schooner up the river, with the Arms &c which was reced from the Hope.2
Date: 14 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Inclosed I send you the affidavit of Samuel Lee, boatman, relative to the unloading part of the cargo of the Ship Beulah, which needs no comment.
I am, however, particularly desired by our Committee earnestly to request of your committee to protect Mr. Lee, as far as lies in their power, from any insults on account of this affair. He is a person well known here to be of good character, and who by... Continue Reading
Date: 14 March 1774
Volume: Volume 1
A few days agoe our Mutual Friend Thomas Mumford shew me a Letter from you recomending to send a Vessell to Cohassett Rather than Salem with West India Goods for the Boston Markett.2 I have by bearer James Angell in the Schooner Thames Shipt a Cargo of Brown Sugars Consisting of Sixty Seven hogsheads and two teirces, which Sell for my Accot They Just now came in from Hispaniola, and I... Continue Reading
Date: 15 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Gentlemen, The annexed depositions contain as full and candid an account of the transaction relative to the landing the goods from the ship Beulah, as we are able to give; in the doing of which, we have studied to give the Committee, and our fellow citizens, the utmost Satisfaction we are capable of.
John Murray being obliged to go to Elizabeth Town, to take an inventory of the goods, found the... Continue Reading
Date: 15 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
JOHN MURRAY, of the city of New York, merchant, being duly sworn, saith, that the above is a full, just, and true inventory of all the goods which were lately taken out of the ship Beulah, at Sandy-Hook by the Deponent, and were by him landed at Elizabeth-Town in New-Jersey.2 That the deponent did, yesterday [March 14], voluntarily make an acknowledgment to the committee of Elizabeth... Continue Reading
Date: 15 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
ROBERT MURRAY, of the said city, being duly affirmed according to law, doth declare and affirm, that so far forth as he is acquainted with the facts contained in the foregoing deposition, the same are true; and that he neither knows nor believes, that any more or other goods or things were taken out of the said ship Beulah, since her arrival here, than what are specified in the foregoing... Continue Reading
Date: 15 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir the foregoing is a Coppy of what I wrote you by Capt [James] Angell who Sail'd this day with a Good Wind & hope he will arrive safe ー I gave him orders to Sett his Jack at his foremast head that incase you had any fresh orders you may have an opportunity of conveying them on board before he comes to anchor In about three weeks I expect another Cargoe of Sugars which I shall send round... Continue Reading
Date: 16 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Committee met by adjournment this evening at the Exchange.
Mr. [Francis] Lewis, from the Sub-Committee appointed to state the case of Messrs. Robert Murray and John Murray, respecting their having landed goods from on board the ship Beulah; report a letter from the Committee of Elizabeth Town to this Committee, which letter is in the words following, viz.
[Insert letter of March 10, 1775]
The... Continue Reading
Date: 16 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Extracts from a Council held at the Governors on Thursday the 16th day of March Anno Domini 1775
Were present
His Excellency Robert Eden Esqr
Daniel Dulany Esqr
Daniel of St Thos Jenifer Esqr
George Stewart Esqr
and
William Fitzhugh Esqr
Benjamin Ogle Esqr
His Excellency was pleased to lay before the Board the following Deposition of Mr Robert Stratford Byrne... Continue Reading
Date: 16 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I should have paid my respects to your Excellency oftner since your return to your command in America if I had not been restrained by the consideration of your having your hands too full of employment to admit of complimentary intrusions.
The state of this Province has been till lately so perfectly like that of the neighbouring Colonies that I have had nothing material to communicate to your... Continue Reading
Date: 16 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Honble Sirs In hopes of your protection by my Conduct I must beg leave to trouble you with a more circumstantial account of my Situation Since my Elopement that you may form your judgment how I am to proceed hereafter, nor have I been in a Situation of doing it sooner, being mostly confined to my Bed since my Arrival here owing to the unhumane treatment I met with the 2d Instant the effects of... Continue Reading
Date: 17 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A sacred regard to american association on the one hand and an earnest desire not to injure my fellow subjects in Great Britain on the other is the reason of my writing you at this time to request your advice for my future conduct and also to confirm or set me right in my judgment in a late affair that has happend in this Port the case is as follows a Vessell arivd here from Bristol the 2d inst... Continue Reading
Date: 18 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Hope Schooner returned with the Shirts and Equipage for the battalion of Marines which the Diana had Orders to call for.
Date: 19 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We had the pleasure of writing you under the 1st Inst since then have not had the pleasure of hearing from you. we have now in our possession Yr Sundry favours to our G. Salmon which shall be Carefully attended to, and yr Interist we shall consult as if our own. we can now Inform you that tickell2 arrived here the 10th Inst his Salt in good order no doubt ere this you are Satisfyed it... Continue Reading
Date: 19 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Resolved, That the Importers of negroes since the 1st of December last, be called upon at the next General meeting of this Committee on the 20th of April next, to produce Bills of Loading, or other sufficient proof to the Committee, that they have reshipped the said negroes agreeable to the resolve of the General Congress as directed by this Committee.
Date: 20 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Last Tuesday [March 14] Mr. Robert Smyth, Merchant, Master Smyth, his son, and Master Ward son of John Ward, Esq, returned here from London, in the snow Proteus, Capt. Papley, having touched at Falmouth and St. Christopher's by the Way.
The said Vessel having on board (besides 7 Cases of Merchandise, said to be Globes and mathematical Instruments consigned to Mr. Robert Wells, 1 hogshead, 1... Continue Reading
Date: 20 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Spinckes [Sphynx] Sloop (formerly Tender to the Canceaux on the Survey) sailed for Piscataqua with the Admirals Order to Captain [Andrew] Barkley to send the Canceaux to Halifax to be hove down and have the damage she received by running aground repaired, and Lieut. [Henry] Mowat her Commander, had Orders, when the Ship should be compleated again to proceed on the Survey as usual under the... Continue Reading
Date: 21 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
To the Publick.
We, the Committee for Norfolk Borough, find ourselves under the disagreeable necessity of publishing to the world the conduct of Captain Sampson, Master of the Snow Elizabeth, from Bristol. It is not in one instance alone that he has discovered his opposition to the measures adopted for the security of our rights and liberties, nor can he, on any account, justify his repeated... Continue Reading
Date: 21 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
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