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The expedition to Ticonderoga, &c. requiring secrecy, the Congress of this Colony was not acquainted with the orders you received from this Committee. It gives us great pleasure to be informed by the express, Captain [Jonathan] Brown, that the success you have met with is answerable to your spirit in the undertaking. We have now to acquaint you that the Congress have taken up this matter, and...
Date: 28 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Elisha Lettinwell was directed to proceed with two Teams to Chelsea, and bring from thence the Cannon and other Stores saved from the Schooner [Diana] which has been burned by our people, and to lodge said Stores in this Town.
Date: 30 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We are informed, that in the [36-gun] Cerberus Frigate, Capt. Chads, who arrived at Boston last Thursday from England, came Passengers, Major-Generals [William] Howe, [Henry] Clinton, and [John] Burgoyne.
The Town of Salem, and other Parts of the County of Essex, were alarmed last Tuesday Morning [May 30] by the Appearance, off Salem Harbour, of 2 or 3 armed Vessels, supposed to be on some...
Date: 1 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Last Wednesday se'nnight [May 31] a Number of Provincials, under the Command of Col. [John] Robinson, made an Acquisition of about 500 Sheep and 30 Head of Cattle from Pettick's island.
And on Friday Night last [June 2] the Provincial Troops made another Acquisition of about 800 Sheep and Lambs from off Deer Island, together with a Number of Cattle. ー Major [John] Greaton, who commanded this...
Date: 8 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Dear Sir You will doubtless before the Rect of this have heard of the bloody Engagement at Charlestown. For a particular Acct of it I must refer You to a Letter I last Week wrote our Friend [Stephen] Collins. The ministerial Troops gain'd the Hill but were victorious Losers. A few more such Victories & they are undone. I cannot think our Retreat an unfortunate one. Such is the Situation of...
Date: 26 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Whereas, a considerable number of Whale-Boats have been procured for the service of this Colony, and many of them are said to be now in the Towns of Braintree and Weymouth, and unless proper care be taken of said Boats they , will probably sustain great damage; therefore,
Resolved, That it be recommended to the honourable Congress that such order be taken respecting said Boats as their wisdom may...
Date: 30 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Committee appointed to proceed to the posts of Ticonderoga and Crown Point, &c. beg leave to report, that they proceeded through the new settlements, called the New-Hampshire Grants, and carefully observed the road through the same, and find that there is a good road from Williamstown to the place where the road crosseth the river called Paulet River, which is about fifteen miles from...
Date: 6 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
His Excellency General Washington having this day ordered to the direction of this Committee ten prisoners, taken some time past at Machias, on board an armed Cutter, the Committee, apprehending from their commission of the 8th instant that they are altogether restricted from acting as a Committee but only in the recess of Congress, except in conformity to certain special Resolves of Congress,...
Date: 13 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On Tuesday Night [July 11] a Party of Men was sent from Roxbury Camp to Long-Island, in Boston Harbour from whence they brought off 15 of the Enemy Prisoners, between 20 and 30 horned Cattle, and about 100 Sheep. The Prisoners were brought to Head-Quarters Yesterday, and soon after sent to Concord.
Date: 13 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Capt. John Darby, who sailed from Salem for London a few days after the Battle of Lexington, returned last Tuesday [July 18], and the same day came to Head-Quarters in this place. Very little Intelligence has yet transpired we only learn, that the News of the Commencement of the American War has threw the people in England, especially the city of London, into great Consternation, and occasioned a...
Date: 21 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Last Wednesday se'nnight [July 12] embarked from Dorchester-Neck, Col. [John] Greaton, with 96 Men in ten Whale-Boats, for Long Island, in order to remove from thence some Stock and Hay. On his Way he was fired upon by the Men of War lying near said Island, but notwithstanding the very heavy fire from the Ships, he proceeded; when not finding any Stock on the Island, he fired the Barns, in which...
Date: 27 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Last Monday Morning [July 31] about 800 Men, went from Roxbury to the Spot where the Light House lately stood, where they found 40 of the Enemy, twenty-eight Soldiers, and 12 Tory Carpenters and Labourers, who were sent from Boston to erect a Building for fixing up Lights. Our People, before they surrendered, killed four of them (among whom it is said was a Lieutenant) and took the Rest Prisoners...
Date: 3 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
In respect to the Boats &c. from Salem, I doubt, in the first place, whether they can be brought over by Land ー in the Second, I am sure nothing could ever be executed here by Surprize; as I am well convinced that nothing is transacted in our Camp, or Lines, but what is known in Boston in less than 24 hours, ー indeed, Circumstanced as we are it is scarce possible to do otherwise, unless we...
Date: 7 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir, I am sorry to acquaint you, that on the 15th Ultimo, I, with the Surgeon & a Boats Crew, was detain'd on Shore at Machias, and the next Day His Majts Schooner Diligent, and Tatamagouche Shallop was seized by the Inhabitants; The particulars of which I will communicate when I have the honor of seeing you ー Mr Stillingfleet accompanied me hither, there is likewise a Seaman & a Marine...
Date: 10 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Our People have taken two or three of the Enemy's Vessels at Machias, at the Eastward, with a Number of Prisoners, among whom is Ichabod Jones, a well known Tory, who was brought to Town Yesterday, and put into Custody of the Main Guard. The other Prisoners, we are informed, are on the Road, and may be hourly expected.
We hear from Cape-Ann, that a Vessel bound in there from the West Indies,...
Date: 10 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I am glad to relieve you from your Anxiety, respecting Troops being sent from Boston to Quebeck. These Reports, I apprehend, took their Rise from a Fleet being fitted out about fourteen Days ago to plunder the Islands in the Sound, of their live Stock; an Expedition which they have executed with some Success, and are just returning; but you may depend on it no Troops have been detached from...
Date: 15 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I am informed that Captain [Jeremiah] Obrien, or some other person, has stopped the baggage of the officers taken at Machias, as a compensation for some expence incurred which the General Court did not think proper to allow him. A procedure of this kind would, in my opinion, much dishonour the American arms, and be attended with very disagreeable consequences. I trust therefore, Sir, that the...
Date: 16 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Last Monday morning [August 14] came to town from Ipswich, 20 of the Prisoners taken at Cape-Ann the Tuesday before.1
Date: 17 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
By a gentleman from Dartmouth, we hear, that a few Days ago, as one of the piratical Ships of war (supposed to be the King-Fisher) was passing up the Sound between Martha's-Vineyard and the Elizabeth Islands, she stood into Tarpaulin Cove, close in with one of the Houses, where stood a Number of People without Arms, looking at the Ship; when, without the least Provocation they received a Number...
Date: 31 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I am very sorry my Situation is such as to oblige me to apply to You as a Prisoner, I can remember a Time when I could have esteemed You a Friend, & Acquaintance, You no doubt will recollect it, in 1769 when I frequently had the Pleasure of paying my Respects to you in Boston; however not to trespass too much on yr Time, I must beg to inform you that the Purport of this Letter, is to seek a...
Date: 21 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5