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Sir, I think it necessary to inform you, that the Commanders of His Majesty's Ships & Vessels sent, & to be sent to the Coast of North America, are, & will be instructed, in their respective Stations, to intercept & seize any British or Foreign Ships which may be found carrying on an illicit Trade, & which may have on board prohibited Goods and Merchandize, or Warlike Stores...
Date: 7 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
It becomes indispensably necessary, in the present Conjuncture, to be particularly attentive & severe with regard to the Counterband Trade of our Colonies in North America; The Commanders therefore of The King's Ships & Vessels, stationed off that Coast, are instructed, in their respective Stations, to intercept & seize any British or Foreign Ships which may be found carrying on an...
Date: 7 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Our commerce . . . is at once the source of our wealth and our power; it both gives us seamen to man our fleets, and money to pay them; without commerce this island, when compared with many countries on the continent, is but a small insignificant spot: it is from our commerce alone that we are intitled to that consequence we bear in the great political scale. When compared with several of the...
Date: 7 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A few days ago the Congress at Cambridge had the assurance to vote Adml. Greaves a Traitor to his country and voted also to petition the King that He wou'd relieve him from this Station and dismiss him the service; all this was in consequence of his having pressed several Men for something or other the Committee had done to him; the Adml. wants to burn their Town, and it is with difficulty the...
Date: 8 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A Council ー All present except [Daniel] Horsmanden & [Charles] Apthorpe
Lt Govr [Cadwallader Colden] asked what he should do on a Scotch Ships being driven from the Port2 ー We got him to state his Case & Question ー Board shy ー Clerk wrote something ー He after finding us shy retired to state his Querie He returned & left us at [John] Watts's Request suggested by me ー We kept...
Date: 8 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
February 1775
Wednesday 8
Moored abreast of the Town of New York
at 4 P M sent the Master with the Long bt & Pinnace Man'd & Arm'd down the River after a Ship that was cast off from the Wharf by a Mobb2
Date: 8 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
According to your Orders, on Wednesday the 1st Instant, I proceeded down the River in the small Boat, with four Boat men, and one Tidesman; coming up with Gloucester Point, I went on board the Schooner Isabella, where I found one John Ritchey, who called himself the Mate of the Vessel, with five more Persons. I desired to know where he came from. He told me he came from Portsmouth, New England,...
Date: 8 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Viscount of Stormont2 spoke to me in general terms of the resolution adopted by His Government to stop the trade of the Colonies and to prevent contraband. The second item of this resolution is to conform to the conditions existing not only in the English Colonies, but all the other Colonies in America. Their trade is exclusive and does not let in foreigners. Thus, the intention...
Date: 8 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir Inclosed is A Copy of a Letter I received Yesterday: The Gentleman who writes it I understand is a Man of Character, and by his Intelligence You may further judge of the Disposition of the People in this Country2 ー however I hope in God, to make them pay dear for their frolick, should they attempt it.
I am Sir, [&c.]
Date: 9 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Present Lt Govr [Cadwallader Colden] [Daniel] Horsmanden [John] Watts [Roger] Morris [William] Smith [Hugh] Wallace [Henry] White [William] Axtell [John Harris] Cruger [James] Jauncey
The Govr laid before us Capt James Montigue's Letter of this Day in substance that he had put Men on Board the Ship ー That the Capt was not there ー That the Mate ask'd no aid ー That a Sloop was close to her with arm...
Date: 9 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
February 1775
Wednesday 9
Moored abreast of the Town of New York
at 4 A M returned the Master with the Boats and brought the Ship up abreast the Town
Date: 9 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Ship James, Capt. Watson, which arrived from Scotland within the Hook at 9 o'Clock in the Morning, the second inst. has neither landed her cargo, nor entered, as she did not arrive in the Time allowed by the Association of the Congress for importing Goods from Great Britain or Ireland, &c. She has been at Anchor since Saturday last [February 4] in our Bay, accompanied with a boat, on...
Date: 9 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
1775.
9th February
Commissions for Victualling His Majesty's Navy were order'd to send out 4. Months Provisions of all Species (except Spirits which they were to contract for) for 4,275. Men.
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A Transport was order'd to be provided to carry the Servants, Horses & Baggage of the three Major Generals going to Boston2
Date: 9 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Friday Morning [February 10] he2 came ashore & went to the Lt Govr ー While at Legislative Council we expected to be called, but were not ー Such a Spirit as appear'd last Night struck Terror & now every Body blamed the Capt for not being gone ー Oliver De Lancey came down to the Coffiee House, & said to Ph. Livingston & Francis Lewis pointing to the Scotch ship What does...
Date: 10 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We have the Kings Speech to his Parliament, The Addresses, and the Lords Protest, we observe both Houses re-echoed the Speech with out Knowing the Kings information to be true if we may believe the protesting Lords, and by that complaisance of theirs, we see that like obedient Spaniels they were ready to leap over the Stack. The speech threatens, threats make no impression. By Letters we...
Date: 10 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
His Majesty being determined, in consequence of the Address of both Houses of Parliament, to take the most speedy and effectual measures for supporting the just rights of his crown, and the two Houses of Parliament, thinks proper to acquaint this House, that some addition to his forces by sea and land will be necessary for that purpose; and his Majesty doubts not but he shall have the concurrence...
Date: 10 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Feb. 10. The House having resolved itself into a Committee on the Papers relating to the Disturbances in North America,
Lord North moved, "That leave be given to bring in a Bill to restrain the trade and commerce of the provinces of Massachuset's Bay, and New Hampshire; the colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Providence Plantation in North America, to Great Britain, Ireland, and the...
Date: 10 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Diana now returned from North River by the Admirals Order and was sent on the 11th to Philadelphia for such money as the Collector of the Customs at that port should ship on board her, and was to call at Rhode Island in her way back and there to take up the white shorts, Stockings, Camp and Tent Equipage, left by the Hind for the Battalion of Marines at Boston.
Date: 11 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
. . . and when weighing Anchor the next Day [February 11] the Lt Govr forbid his2 sailing without a Clearance from the Customs ー the Capt of the Man of war3 was then sought for by [Isaac] Sears & 20 men, but being found by Buchannan said he had orders for the Ships Departure & to morrow Sunday 12th is fixd for it wind permittingー
Upon the whole [Cadwallader] Colden...
Date: 11 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A curious circumstance happened here the other day, respecting a vessel from Dunkirk, having on board East India and other dry goods. Five customhouse officers went on board, with an intention to seize her; but the Captain immediately set sail, and carried them as far as the Capes, where he set them on shore, then returned, and landed his cargo.2
Date: 11 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1