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Sir./ you being master of the Sloop Dimant, as She is now fitted for the Seas, our Orders to you are that you Embrace the first fair wind, and good weather, and go to Sea, with Said Sloop and her Cargo, and proceed Directly for the Island of Martinico, and when you arrive their, weight on the Governor and gett a permission to Sell your Cargo. and when you have Sold your Cargo, Lay out the neet...
Date: 7 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Having seen in the publick Papers that your Excelly and the British Admiral have agreed upon an Exchange of Prisoners in the naval Department I beg Leave to apply to you in Behalf of a Mate of a Vessel, and Four Seamen, all belonging to Warwick in this State, some of whom are connected with very reputable Families. They were all taken in the Merchant's Service, and are Prisoners on board One of...
Date: 23 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I am to acknowledge the favour of your Honor's letter of the 1st instant, and to inform you that I laid it before the committee appointed to act in the recess of the General Assembly, who also conferred with Commodore Hopkins, and Mr. [Aaron] Burr upon your plan of an expedition to Long Island.
The committee upon the information and advice of Mr. [Stephen] Hopkins, a member of the General...
Date: 5 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Your Favour of the 24th ulto came to Hand when I was in the inoculating Hospital. As the Two Ships built here were nearly ready for the Sea, and there was a Prospect of their being soon manned none of their Guns could be spared. I however delayd returning you an Answer as it was proposed by some Gentlemen to lend Ten of-the Guns belonging to the Forts in this State. But the Committee appointed to...
Date: 7 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Sir,
Providence Novemr 12th 1776.
In Consequence of a Proposal from Capt Furneaux of his Britannick Majesty's Ship Syren the General Assembly have requested me to send to New Shoreham Two Masters of Vessels, Five Mates, and Twenty four Seamen who have been captured and brought into this State to be exchanged for an equal Number of Prisoners of the...
Date: 12 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I have recd certain advise, from the Generals Lee and Greene informing me that a large Body of his Britanic Majesty's Forces have lately embarked at New York, and as their destination is unknown, it is imagined they are going to make an Attack upon Newport. You will take every proper & prudent method to put the Town of Newport in the best posture of defence possible, — And that you endeavour...
Date: 19 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I am to acknowledge the Receipt of your Letter of the 22d of October last with the inclosed Resolve of Congress, 2 and to inform you that before it came to Hand myself with the other Owners of the Privateer who took the Ship bound to Quebec 3 being desirous that the Continent might have all the Goods in her which were necessary for the Army wrote to General Washington...
Date: 25 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I Received yours of yesterday by Express am Sorrey to find by the Contents that any of your officers have ben obstructed in their duty in picking up the Deserters from the Ships Shall use my indevours to give all due Asistance to the officers of the fleet in picking up their Deserters if the offenders can be found out Shall en devour that they be brought to Justice from Sir [&c.]
Date: 28 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I think it my duty to inform you that I have just received undoubted Intelligence that yesterday morning a large fleet of square-rigged Vessels was seen between Block Island and Montauk, who in all probability are designed for an attack upon this State. When The letters giving me this Information were writing Eleven Sail were plainly discovered, and before the Expresses came away, several more...
Date: 3 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Yours of this Date is before us, by which we Obsearve You have orders from the Honorable Marine Committee to Git all the Vessels Under your Command out as Soon as You Could Man them, and.As you Request of us to Devise some Method to Compleete the Same, we do Assure you that Nothing in our power, in a Constitutinel way, shall be wanting to Effect so Desireable an Object as the Sailg of the new...
Date: 4 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Recd yours 3rd currt pr 2 Express, with the Copy of Adjutant Stclle's Letter 3 inclosed, and you may be assured every effort, will be made to repel the enemy. To that purpose, large reinforcements, will be immediately sent; several regiments are now in Motion — I doubt not your Zeal on this Occasion; and that nothing will be omitted on your part, for the public Safety.
The...
Date: 4 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
The Enemy's Fleet, consisting of upwards of 100 Sail of Men of War and Transports, have arrived in the Mouth of the Bay, and are now steering towards this Town, both upon the East and West Side of Conanicut, who may be here before Morning: I therefore earnestly beseech the Assistance and Aid of our Sister States, and that every Person capable of bearing Arms will forthwith appear, to stop the...
Date: 7 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Sir — By Expresses & other Channels I have certain intelligence that between 10 & 11 o'clock, A.M. 30 sail of Ships were seen .coming into the Harbor of Newport, and that upwards of 100 sail were between two & three o'clock between Canonicut & the Main Land steering directly up the River. The General Court must be fully apprised of our dangerous situation, and of the fatal...
Date: 7 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Sr Yours of this Day is Jest handed me by Mr [Samuel] Brownd, and thank you for the Intelligence, tho had Repeeted Advice theirof by Land from Each Side of the Bay, the Committee havg tacon up about 40 prissoners of the Sailers brot here by the Severi! Priveteers and beleave their is as many more Yet about Street, our Jail is Very Full, and Sendg them in the Countery may Not Answer as their will...
Date: 7 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
You are hereby in the Name of the Governor and Company of the State aforesaid Commanded to take a good sufficient and Able Guard. & proceed to the PrisonHouse in Providence and there take all the Prisoners of War being Seamen or Comon Sailors & also all such Prisoners being Seamen or Comon Sailors that are to be found in and about the Town of Providence, & them under such Guard convey...
Date: 9 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Whereas I have received information from the Honble Esek Hopkins Esq 2 Commodore & Commander in Chief of the Continental Fleet now within this State, that Robert Relf William Lenn, Phillip Gordon, William Seaner, Peter Cane, Pierce, J. Lem beck, Joseph Merre & divers others Seamen & Marines who have entered on Board & do now belong to The Continental Fleet under his...
Date: 10 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Whereas the General Assembly of the State aforesaid, at the Session held at Providence on the last Wednesday in October AD 1775. ordered two Row Galli es to be equipped, to be employed in protecting the Trade of this State and whereas you the said Ebenezer Hill have been appointed Captain of the Row Galley called the Washington being one of the said Row-Gallies: I do therefore hereby in the Name...
Date: 19 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I received a Letter from Capt Furneaux of the Syren dated October 11th last proposing, as he informed me with your Lordships Permission an Exchange of a Number of Prisoners he then had on board his Ship. I wrote to him that I accepted of the Proposal and would send the same Number of Prisoners to Block Island to be exchanged I have since been told that Capt Furneaux was at that Island about the...
Date: 20 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
. . . We are at present employed in throwing up Intrenchments to secure this Town; the Possession of which we imagine is a grand Object with the Enemy. As from the Situation of the Country round, it might be fortified in such a Manner as to make the Expulsion of the Enemy a Work of extreme Difficulty, and from hence they might enter the very Heart of the Country. The Warren, Providence, Columbus...
Date: 22 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Sir The very great Scarcity of Flour, Bread and Iron in this State, and the danger of the Inhabitant"s suffering for want of those necessary Articles have induced the Council of War, to fit out the Sloop Diamond Timothy Coffin Master to your Address to procure them. —
We inclose you a Draught upon the Continental Treasurer for a sufficient Sum of Money to lade her, and desire that you will put...
Date: 18 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7