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Applycation havg this Day bin Made to persons here to Risque Mr Hackers Boat, he being gone to the Camp, his Son was in Doubt wiether he Could Concent for her to go for fear his father mought Loose her as well as the one now in the hands of the men of warr, and as both the Boats now held by the men of warr are said to be Detained on Account of their haveing bin Imployd in the Colonys Service in...
Date: 12 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I recd thy Letter of the 7th at portsmouth the 8th. Inst with Much Concern on thy Acct apprehendg the Measure of Sueing at this time would increas instead of Lessening thy Difficulties for the same Disposition that could Suspect thy purchasing flour on purpose to carry to Boston could evade the force of Such a Suit and even tum it against thee and thy friend at Newport that so kindly assisted in...
Date: 16 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
[Here are inserted: Lieutenant Governor Nicholas Cooke to Captain James Wallace, R.N., June 14, 1775 and Captain James Wallace, R.N. to Lieutenant Governor Nicholas Cooke, June 15, 1775]
On Thursday last [June 15], soon after the above insolent Answer was returned to the Deputy-Governor, as one of the Packets mentioned in His Honor's Letter, which had been piratically seized and detained by Capt...
Date: 17 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Men of War in Newport take every Thing they can get. An armed Sloop and Packet belonging to this Town went down the Bay and retook, after a small Engagement in Sight of the Ships of War, Thomas Lindsey's Packet, who had been turned into a Cruiser.
Date: 20 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Our Government have order Two Cruizers to be equiped and sent out to protect our Trade. They have retaken Lindsays packett in sight of the Men of War which Wallis2 had fitted as a Tender. The Men of War have taken Mr. Gibbs Brigg loaded with Flour. They have put all the Flour on Board of the Men of War. for Fear that the Brigg should be Retaken and unloaded as several Vessells from the...
Date: 20 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Your kind favour of the 16th Inst is before me, I am Really Sorry that my takeing out a writt against Capt. [James] Wallace should be so disagreeable to Your Centiments. if I am not Much Mistaken I said in Your presents more than once that I was Determined to take the Law of him Either here or in England, and should have done it Sooner had I have Determined which would Likely have proved the most...
Date: 21 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
An Agreement between John Brown on one part and the Committee in behalf of the Coloney for hireing & Fixing an Armed Vessill On the other part Viz the said John [Brown] agrees to Lett to the Said Committee the Sloop Catey from the 12 Inst to the Latter part of December next at Ninety Dollers P Mo the Said Committee in behalf of the Colony to Resque the said Sloop at Four Hundred pounds LMony...
Date: 22 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Saturday last [June 17] his Majesty's ship Rose, Capt. [James] Wallace, and the Swan Sloop Capt [James] Ayscough, with a Tender, came up the River as far as Connanicut Point; but not meeting with any prey, they returned to their station at Newport; while on this cruize, five Vessels, which they had piratically taken, and left in the Harbour of Newport, were boarded by a Number of People, and...
Date: 24 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I received a Letter last Evening from the Committee at Plymouth informing me That Two Vessels from Genl [Thomas] Gage under Convoy of an armed Cutter2 arrived at Saco with Provisions in Order to exchange for Lumber; The Com through Necessity agreed to the Exchange, but a Misunderstanding arising the Inhabitants seized the two Vessels3 and fired upon the Cutter, who was...
Date: 24 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I gave you a hint in my Letter of yesterday of our fitting out two armed Vessels for the protection of our trade, it looks very probable to me that if there were a few Vessels propperly armed and mannd along the Coast in different parts it would be a great means of proteckting our own trade and allso of picking up many of the provision Vessels that they the Men of War take this way and send round...
Date: 27 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
It is voted and resolved, that the gunner and all the soldiers at Fort George, be immediately discharged.
That Mr. Tomas Freebody have the care of the buildings on Goat Island, and let them out; that he haul up the fort-boat, take particular care of her, and preserve her for the use of the colony; that he procure the cannon to be brought over from the fort to Newport; and that he advertise the...
Date: 28 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
If there is any Powder to be Bought at Surrinam, you are Directed to Purchase, on my Acco Three Thousand Guildors worth, & Ship the same on Board Capt Silvanus Jenckes (if you have Effects to that amount of mine in your Hands,) who is Directed to Mr John Brown, to take it on Board at the rate of one Dollar p Hundred freight.
Your Humle Sert
Date: 3 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Tuesday night [July 11] a party of the Americans went in boats to Long-Island, in Boston Bay, and brought off 18 horned cattle, 40 sheep, 5 hogs, a horse, and some valuable goods, the property of our enemies; they likewise brought 17 men, and a negroe, that had been making hay for the regular army. ー On Wednesday night the party returned to the island, where they burnt a quantity of hay.
Date: 15 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
. . . we have three men of War and one packet that are constantly aRobing and plundering allmost all the Vessels that comes in Especially those that belong to providence none Escape that they can get in their power and they have So Strong a party in their favour in the town of Newport that nothing can be said or done in the coloney but they have immediate intelligence of it our [Governor Joseph]...
Date: 18 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We having received certain advice by Timothy Brown directly from Newport, that all the men of war sailed from Newport this Morning, and left the packet in possession of Mr [Aaron] Lopeze's schooner lately taken from Jamaica, This is therefore to desire you to sail as early tomorrow morning as you can, and go down the bay till you are certain whether the ships are in Newport or not.2 If...
Date: 23 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Capt. [James] Wallace in One of his mad Fits last Week drew up all Three of the Men of War before the Town of Newport and swore with the most bitter Imprecations that he would burn it. He fired several Guns over the Town which put the People, the Tories as well as the Whigs, into the most terrible Consternation. I heard that Two Women have since lost their Lives in Consequence of the Fright.
Date: 25 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Nicholas Cooke, Deputy Governor of Rhode Island, to Captains John Pain and John Sands, July 29, 1775
We have authentick Intelligence that 2 Men of War and 11 Transports sailed from Boston the Beginning of this Week; and we have the highest Reason to think that they are intended to take Cattle Sheep &c from the several Islands and very probably from yours in Order to supply the Enemy in Boston where they already suffer greatly for Want of fresh Provisions. As it is of great Consequence to...
Date: 29 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
At a Town Meeting holden, by adjournment, in Providence, on the 5th of August, A.D. 1775:
The Honourable Nicholas Cooke, Esq, Moderator
Whereas certain evil-minded persons, inhabitants of this Colony, and acquainted with the Creeks and Channels of the Narragansett Bay, have made it their practice of late to assist our inveterate enemies by piloting their armed Vessels up the River from Newport...
Date: 5 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Last evening Col. [Elisha] Porter delivered me your Letter of the 4th instant, to which I have paid all the Attention the importance of it demands.
This Colony the last Fall, not confiding entirely in the precarious Supply of Powder that might be expected from the Merchants, imported a considerable Quantity, though not so large as was ordered. The supplying the Inhabitants, who were in a Manner...
Date: 8 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir, Since my last to you Mr [Samuel] Ward One of the Delegates hath returned from the Congress. He informs me that some of the Bermudians have been at Philadelphia ー soliciting for Liberty to import Provisions for the Use of the Island. They gave Information of the Powder mentioned in your Letter to me, and were of Opinion it might easily be obtained. They were told by the Delegates that every...
Date: 11 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1