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Sir Yesterday, I received Advice from Boston that a Number of Transports have sailed on a Second Expedition for fresh Provisions: As they met with Such Success before it is probable they may pursue the same Course only advancing farther: We think Montauck Point on Long Island a very probable Place of their Landing: I have therefore thought it Best to give you the earliest Intelligence. But I do...
Date: 23 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Your Favour of the 21st Inst. is duely received inclosing Mr Carter's Information of the Capture of the Charming Sally, which from the Circumstances attending it, was undoubtedly collusive. I have received Advice that another Vessel belonging to one White at Marblehead whose ostensible Voyage was to Casco Bay, was carried in soon after. Such Instances of Avarice at such a Time, &in such a...
Date: 30 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Hearing that you have imported a Quantity of Powder, Lead & Small Arms I have dispatched Capt [George] Bayler, one of my Aids de Camp to treat with you for it, Whatever Engagement he shall enter into for the whole or any part I will confirm: And upon Delivery to him your Bills drawn on me for the Price agreed on shall be honor'd on the Shortest Notice ー I am Gent: [&c.]
Date: 31 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I have just received your Favour of the 29th Ult. by express. I am very sensible that the Situation of the Inhabitants of Long-Island, as well as of all those on the Coast, exposes them greatly to the Ravages of the Enemy, and it is to be wished general Protection could be extended to them, consistent with the Prosecution of those great Plans, which have been adopted for the common Safety. This...
Date: 2 September 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir: Your Favor of the 30th August and 2d Inst. are duly received; The Concurrence of the Committee in the Bermuda Voyage is very agreeable and I hope will prove a happy Earnest of its Success; Inclosed is a Letter to the Inhabitants of that Island of the tenor you have Suggested; but I shall depend upon Capt. [Abraham] Whipple's not making use of it, except in Case of real Necessity...
Date: 6 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Gentn: In the great Conflict, which agitates this Continent, I cannot doubt but the Assertors of Freedom and the Rights of the Constitution, are possessed of your most favorable Regards and Wishes for Success. As Descendents of Freemen and Heirs with us of the same Glorious Inheritance, we flatter ourselves that tho' divided by our Situation, we are firmly united in Sentiment; the...
Date: 6 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The Bearer has under his Guard Seven Prisoners 5 taken at the Light House some Time ago, and Two yesterday. He is ordered to take the Direction of the Honourable Board as to the Disposal of them. ー
I have the Honour to be Gentlemen [&c.]
Date: 6 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I propose to do myself the Honour of writing in a few Days fully and particularly on several Heads, to which I must now refer. In the mean Time I have only to inform the Congress that I have received a small Supply of 7000 lbs of Powder this Week from Rhode Island, and in a few Days expect 7 Tons of Lead and 500 Stand of Arms, being a Part of the same Importation; and to request that more Money...
Date: 7 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Colo [John] Glover has just informed the General that there are 5 Vessells at Beverly & two at Newbury which were fitted out for another Purpose, but will answer the Present equally well ー as they are completely equipp'd with Platforms, Wood, Water &c ー It will be a saving both in Time & Expence to make Use of these, You will therefore be pleased in your Transaction of this Matter to...
Date: 7 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
As I mean to call upon you in a day or two for your opinions upon a point of a very Interesting nature to the well being of the Continent in general, and this Colony in particular; I think it proper, indeed an incumbent duty on me previous to this meeting, to intimate to the end and design of it, that you may have time to consider the matter with that deliberation and attention which the...
Date: 8 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
So little has happened since the date of my last, that I should scarce have given you the trouble of reading this Letter, did I not imagine that it might be some satisfaction to you to know that we are well and in no fear or dread of the Enemy. Being, in our own opinion at least, very securely Intrenched, and wishing for nothing more than to see the Enemy out of their strong holds, that the...
Date: 10 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The Enemy and we are very near Neighbours. Our advanced Works are not more than five or 600 Yards from theirs, and the main body of the two Armies scarce a Mile. We see every thing that passes, and that is all we can do, as they keep close on the two Peninsulas of Boston and Charlestown, both of which are surrounded with Ships of War, Floating Batteries, &c. and the narrow necks of Land...
Date: 17 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Sir. Your Favours of the 9, 15, & 15. Inst. have been duly received: The Readiness of the Committee to cooperate with me in procuring the most authentick Intelligence & dispatching Captn [Abraham] Whipple for this Purpose, is peculiarly satisfactory, & I flatter myself will be attended not only with Success, but with the happiest Consequence to the publick Cause ー I should immediately...
Date: 18 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
By his Excellency George Washington Esqr Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United Provinces of North America
Whereas the Necessities of the Army under my Command for Amunition are so great as to require all Possible Supplies, and Messrs Clark and Nightingale Merchants of Providence, having represented to me, that they will at their own Risque, undertake to procure from the West-Indies or...
Date: 19 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
E'er this you must have heard of the taking, and retaking of your Ship; and of my ordering it to be delivered up to your Agent. ー I have promised the Officers, to wit. Captn [Nicholson] Broughton, Lieut [John] Glover [Jr.], & another Subaltern whose name I cannot recollect2 that I would recommd them to your notice & compensation. ー I should have done the same thing in behalf of...
Date: 21 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The Revd Mr [Samuel] Kirkland the Bearer of this having been introduced to the Honbl Congress can need no particular Recommendation from me: But as he now wishes to have the Affairs of his Mission & publick Employ put upon some suitable Footing, I cannot but intimate my Sense of the Importance of his Station, & the great Advantages which have & may result to the United Colonies from...
Date: 30 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
About eighth Days ago a Brig from Quebec to Boston, was taken and brought into Cape Ann.2 By some intercepted Letters from Captain [Thomas] Gamble to General Gage and Major [William] Sheriff, the Account of the Temper of the Canadians in the American Cause is fully confirmed. The Captain says, that if Quebec should be attacked before Carleton can throw himself into it, there will be a...
Date: 3 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I am directed by his Excellency General Washington to inform you that he has referr'd the Disposal of the Cargo of the Vessel lately taken within your District to the General Court of this Colony, to whom he has also recommended the brave Captors for a suitable Compensation. He now proposes to equip the Vessels as Ships of War & immediately to Send them on a Cruize, or if these Vessels are...
Date: 4 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
His Excellency having resolved to equip two armed Vessels, has impowered you to negotiate this Business, in which the following Directions are to be observed.
1st. That the Vessels be approved Sailors and as well found as possible.
2nd. That you have an Appraisement made of them, by indifferent People, to be returned to Head Quarters.
3rd. That you agree, at as reasonable a rate as you can, for...
Date: 4 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I shall now beg leave to request the determination of Congress as to the Property and disposal of such Vessels and Cargoes as are designed for the Supply of the Enemy and may fall into our Hands. there has been an event of this kind at Portsmouth; as by the Inclosure No. 3,2 in which I have directed the Cargo to be brought hither for the use of the Army, reserving the Settlement of any...
Date: 5 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2