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I the Subscriber of Providence in the State of Rhode Island &c. Merchant, request your Honor to grant a Commission or Letters of Marque and Reprisal to Joseph Tillinghast Commander of the Sloop Polly of which I am Owner, She is burthened about Seventy Tons, carries Six Carriage Guns Four Pounders and Swivel Guns, manned with Twenty Men, and fitted with a suitable Quantity of Small Arms,...
Date: 13 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I wrote you yesterday since which Capt Seth Warner one of the Sea Captains you mention caine to me, and hath consented to undertake and raise a Company of Seamen for the Lake Service ー He informs me that he can soon procure twenty Seamen here and as many more out of the Companies in Colo [Samuel] Mott's Regiment which went from his neighbourhood, and are at or on their march to Skeensborough ー I...
Date: 13 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
When captain Biddle, of the Congress armed vessel the Andrea Doria, on the 29th May last took the Oxford transport, on board of which was a company of His Britannic Majesty's 42d regiment of foot, Capt. Biddle upon taking the officers out of the Oxford, only allowed them to take their bedding and a few shirts with them, and told them that by orders of the Continental Congress, all that was the...
Date: 13 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
August 1776. ー
Tuesday 13th
At Single Anchor in Tapan Bay.
Light Breezes and fair Weather.
at ¼ past Noon Weigh'd & came to Sail in Company with his Majesty's Ship Rose, the Tryal Schooner & the Two Tenders At 2 P M came too with the Small Bower in 6½ Fam abreast Col Philips. The Rose in coming too, let go her Anchor foul of ours Weigh'd the Small & let go the Best Bower, Veer'd...
Date: 13 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
August 1776
Tuesday 13th
In Hudsons River New York
A M at 1/2 pass 11 Weigh'd and came to sail as did the Phenix Tryal and 2 Tenders, Steering down the River.
First and Mide part lights Airs and Clear, latter Do with Rain P M at 1/2 past 2 Anchd off Philliphs farm, 8 miles from the Rebel Fort, Do Anch'd the Phenix, Tryal & Tenders, saw several Vessels sunk in the Channel Abrest of the...
Date: 13 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Rate
Ships Names
Guns
Men
Commanders
Appointments.
3
Eagle
64
520
V. Adl Lord Howe
Capt Duncan.
Stationed off of Staten Island attendant on the Operations of the Army.
"
Asia
500
Vandeput
4
Chatham
50
370
V. A. Shuldham Capt Raynor
"
Preston
367
Commo Hotham Capt Uppleby
"
Centurion
350
Brathwaite
"
Renown
Banks
5
Rainbow
44
280
Sir Geo: Collier
"...
Date: 13 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Please to acquaint my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that His Majestys Ship Repulse with Twenty five Sail of the Convoy under my Command, arrived here yesterday; I have also great pleasure in acquainting their Lordships, that the Troops are in perfect health, having not lost a man during the Voyage; Inclosed you will receive a Return of the Convoy, that Saild from St Hellens with me, the...
Date: 13 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I this morning waited on Adl Shuldham, & asked his opinion in regard to the Freight, for the money brought from So Carolina, he desires me to inform you, that as a receipt was given for the money when rec'd on board the Solebay, I stood charged with it, & must have been answerable for any loss, & thinks the offer I have made fore one pr Cent, very reasonable, as it has ever been a...
Date: 13 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Tuesday Agust 13th Thermometer 70 morning. Came up Yesterday and anchored off of Staten Island 127 Transports with Troops &c. A.M. Four Regiments embarked great motion in The fleet ー Evening Thermometer 81
Date: 13 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The Marine Committee having recommended William Barnes for first lieutenant on board one of the frigates built at Philadelphia; Thomas Vaughan, (second mate of the ship Alfred,) to be third lieutenant of the Washington frigate, commanded by Thomas Read, Esqr and Elisha Hinman, to the command of the Cabot,
Resolved, That they be accepted, and that commissions be granted to them accordingly; and...
Date: 13 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Dear Sir Yours of July 29, I duly received. ー But had not the Pleasure of seeing Mr Bogart, the Cannon Founder. ー Mr [Robert Treat] Paine, who is upon the Cannon Committee, I suppose has attended to him. ー He informs me that the Committee of which he is one are taking Measures to procure Copper as well as Sulphur to be made in N. Jersey.
I have obtained from a Gentleman here, very particular...
Date: 13 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Frigate Guard, very hard upon the Associators. Major [Samuel] Nicholas to be requested to employ the Marines in that service.
Date: 13 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Last Wednesday was launched the third Continental frigate built here, called the Washington.
Date: 13 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I wrote you sometime ago acquainting that I had two Schooners wc were sunk at the entrance of this harbor by order of the Committee, for upwards of three months. An allowance has been made me, to put the Vessells into as good order as when they were taken away, but I am told an application must be made to the Council of Safety for payment of the demurrage. I should be glad to know when it will be...
Date: 13 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I have Recd your Letter Conserning Skow and Bots which I should answerd Sum Time But Was in Pentapsco Neck Getting timber for the Gundelos which I must atend on I Dont No When it Would Bee Got, and the frigat Busines as I have all to Prepare for her With My Own Busines and a Thousand Other Peoples. I am allmost Wore out Butt shall Try My Best to Serve you there is Skows to Bee had I am Offerd...
Date: 13 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
July [15]
George's Island is about 2½ miles long, has an excellent Harbour on the East side of it, and a small Haven on the North, sufficiently open at one end for small Vessels to turn in to it, but at the other is not above 100 yards wide nor has above 3 or 4 feet water. Lord Dunmore Landed his Troops upon it the day after our Arrival, and we searched every where for fresh water, but on...
Date: 13 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
You are desir'd to prepare the above Articles as soon as possible and send them to James Town by the first opportunity, if no immediate opportunity offers You are to hire a Vessel as soon as possible, as these Articles are immediately wanting. I am for the Board [&c.]
Thomas Whiting 1st Commissioner
[To] Mr. Charles Thomas manager of
the Rope Walk at Warwick
A Memorandum for the Brigantine...
Date: 13 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
You are desir'd to provide the above things as early as possible when ready acquaint us. I am for the Board [&c.]
Thos Whiting 1st Commr
To Mr Andrew Lush Cabbin Point
a Memorandum for Mr Lush2
Blocks for a Brig about 50 Feet Keel except dead Eyes, two Pumps about 13½ feet long together with Boxes &cー
Date: 13 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Yours of 6th Inst we have receiv'd, the articles of Cordage Blocks &c. which you mention we have given Orders for and expect very shortly to send you except the 5 Bolts of Duck and the suit of Colours which are not to be had here, we are at a loss to know where to send them as you have not mention'd what Harbour the Vessel2 is fitting in, and therefore desire you will write us by...
Date: 13 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
We are making great Preparations here, in Case of a Visit in the Winter. If Howe shou'd be beat at N. York, I suppose he & his Myrmidons will either go to Virginia, or come here. I hope we [are] invincible to any thing that will come agst usー
We have some Thoughts of Sending a Couple of Thousand Men, to ravage E. Florida, & cut off the Communication between Augustine & the Country....
Date: 13 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6