Volume 9
Gentlemen I have Proceided for Boltemore as I was ordered2 After A Long Paseg th 2 July made th Caps Stood in for them but Soon made A Sail between us & th Caps but Could Not Tell what She was She Not making for us thought it was Posb]e S[h]e might be Afraid of us we run in As Nigh as we Dare till we Could See her of[f] Deck &made two more from A loft Afraid thay would take... Continue Reading
Date: 7 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Last Wednesday morning a brigantine (supposed to be the Defence late belonging to this State, and taken by the Roebuck and Perseus), accompanied by a scooner having top-sail yards rigged aloft, came in from the N.E. right before the wind, to this bar, and, being so disguised as to have all the appearance of a merchant vessel, by 8 o'clock, ran up along-side, surprised, boarded, and went off with... Continue Reading
Date: 7 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
At 6 am we heard Guns for a Long time We Expect some Engaige ment Soon. We had one Wasborn [Gideon Washburn] kiled out Rig[ht] one [Henry] Green a Quarter master wounded in the Leg had it Cut of[f] At 8 pm died at 5 am See the Land At 12 pm the Sile [Seal] Islands Bore N Dist a Bout 6 Leg'e at 8 pm they Bore E't a Bout 9 Le'e—
Date: 8 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
July 1777
Tuesday 8
Cape Sambro N21°E 57 Lgues
AM at 4 began to fire on the Rebel Ship we Chas'd — at 8 brot too the Chase after firing a Number of 18 — 9 & 6 Pounders — at ½ past 8 the Chase struck- Shorten'd Sail — hoisted out the Cutter & brought the Prisoners on bd — the Chase prov'd to be the Hancock Rebel Ship — Sent a Lieut & a Party of Men on board the Prize.
First &... Continue Reading
Date: 8 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
July 1777
Tuesday 8th
Sambro No 17 Et Distance 57 Leagues
at 4 AM Saw the Rainbow & Chace on the Weather bow at 5 AM Set Steering Sails ½ past Do when we got as near as we were like to get gave the Brigg a Yaw & fird 3 Different Broadsides into her Some of which Killd one Man on bd of her at the Wheel at 8 oClock the Chace Brot too Provd to be the Hancock Rebel Frigate Mounting 32... Continue Reading
Date: 8 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
July 1777
Tuesday 8
Cape Ann So 83 W 43 leagues
at 9 AM read the Articles of war and Punish'd Jas Quelch Marine for mutiny at 11 the Amazon made the Sigl for all Cruisers, Do Amazon, Orpheus, & Milford, & Convoy in Compy
Light Winds, and hazy Cape Ann So 81 W 41 leagues at 2 PM chacd pr Sigl to the Nd the Amazon, Orpheus & Milford in chace at 9 lost sight of the above Ships and... Continue Reading
Date: 8 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
July 1777
Monday 7
the Soermost part of Nantucket S 50 Wt 49 Leags
½ past 4 AM saw three Large ships to the Soward Stand ing to the Etward Gave Chase Cleared ship for Action ½ past 10 AM Spoke the Chase which proved to be H.M. Ship Orpheus on a Cruise the Other 2 Ships were H.M. Ships Amazon & Juno on a Cruise & in chase at 11 Made sail & Gave Chase to the Soward.
Light Airs... Continue Reading
Date: 8 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
This serves to acquaint the Honourable bord of Warr of the Massetusets Bay, That Captn Nicholas Devereux of the Brigte Phebe Ownd ½ By Evert Byvanck & ½ By James Devereux Then of N:york and Saild from thence the 6th of May 1775 for the Island of Jemaica Where We Arrivd the 4th of June following, On the 19th of June Saild from Jemaica for Campeche In the province of Ucatan in New Spaine, On... Continue Reading
Date: 8 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
The Petition of John Rowe & Joseph Cunningham Commander of the Private Schooner of Warr namd the Phenix [Phoenix] burthen One hundred Tuns Mountd with twelve Carriage & Eight Swivele Guns & Cohorns now Ready for Sea with Men in Proportion
Humbly Shewith that this Vessell is Ownd by Robert Morris Esqr of Phila delphia One of the Honble Congress — & Carter Braxton Esqr of the... Continue Reading
Date: 8 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I have the pleasure to inform you, that we this day made prize of the Brigantine Honor, from Cork bound to Newfoundland, which I hope will arrive in Some safe port. — The master of the Brig informs me that he sail'd in Company with about 20 Sail bound for America, which he parted with about four days ago, so that I hope to give you an account of some others of them in a Short time. I am Sir [... Continue Reading
Date: 8 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Deserted, on the night of the 7th instant, from the Continental armed Brig Andrew Doria, commanded by Isaiah Robinson, Esq; a certain Negroe man, named Patrick Dennis; he is a well set fellow, about 30 years of age, 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, and is exceedingly fond of liquor; had on, when he went away, a Dutch cap, check shirt, canvas trowsers, with coarse shoes and brass shoe-buckles. Whoever... Continue Reading
Date: 8 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Last Friday the 4th of July, being the Anniversary of the Independence of the United States of America, was celebrated in this city with demonstrations of joy and festivity. About noon all the armed ships and gallies in the river were drawn up before the city, dressed in the gayest manner, with the colours of the United States and streamers displayed. At one o'clock, the yards being properly... Continue Reading
Date: 8 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I have received your Letter of the 2d April, by His Majesty's Packett Boat Thynne, who arrived here the 30th of June, in which you acknowledge the receipt of my several Letters of the 16th Novemr 1776 &the 8th &11th January 1777 with the Papers therein contained; and am happy that my Conduct meets with their Lordships approbation:
Nothing particular has occur'd for their Information,... Continue Reading
Date: 8 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I beg leave to acquaint your Lordship, that on the 7th Instant at day break, Cape Sable bearing N N E about fourteen Leagues, we discovered three Sail of Ships, and a Sloop on our weather Quarter, and a Ship on our Lee Quarter, standing to the Westward on the same Tack as the Flora was, I thought it my duty to see what they were, tacked, and stood towards them, upon which the Sloop that was towed... Continue Reading
Date: 9 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Order'd That Mr [Ellis] Gray deliver Capt Bradford one hundred hair blankets for Ship Raleigh
Order'd That the Corny deliver Capt Clouston fresh Provisions & Greens for his Crew as often as the Capt shall direct
Date: 9 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Know all Men by these Presents that We John Rowe Esqr in behalf of the Owners of the Private Vessel [of] War called the Phoenix & Joseph Cunning ham Commander of said Vessel [of] War, both of Boston in the County of Suffolk &State of the Massachusetts Bay areholden&stand firmly bound & obliged unto Henry Gardner Esqr Treasurer & Recr General of said State in the full & ... Continue Reading
Date: 9 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I have received your Letter of the 28th past, inclosing a Copy of a Letter of the 22d April from Mr James Bowdoin to Sir George Collier — I have also received an account of Prisoners sent now, under the direction of Captn Job Prince to be exchanged here, together with the general Account — In your Letter of the 22d of April to Sr Geor Collier you say "by Accounts settled between Sir Petr Parker... Continue Reading
Date: 9 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
The Troops destined to be employed on the Service the General proposes for the next Object of his Attention, being embarked, I shall be to wait only for his Requisition to put to Sea with the Armament, consisting of the Ships of War and Transports expressed in the Return enclosed.2
The General requiring a larger Provision of Ships to be made for Transport Service than the Number... Continue Reading
Date: 9 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
List of Ships of War, Transports &c. prepared for proceeding on Service from New York, July the 9th 1777.
No of
Rate
Ships' Names
Men
Guns
Commanders
3
Eagle
522
64
The Vice Admiral the Viscount Howe
Capt Roger Curtis
Nonsuch
500
64
Walter Griffith
Augusta
500
64
Francis Reynolds
Raisonable
500
64
Thos Firzherbert
Somerset
520... Continue Reading
Date: 9 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
. . .I expect to draw a Cable across the [Hudson] River in Front of the Chain this Morning every Thing being prepared for it & the Montgomery's 2 Cables spliced & fixt for the Purpose — As soon as one of the Booms is ready it can be put in Place of the Cable — The Fasts on shore being formed so as to answer for a Boom & by this Means shoud the Cable not answer the Purpose... Continue Reading
Date: 9 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
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