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I sent letter after letter to captain Montagu [James Montagu], who still had the care of us, and also to his lieutenant, whose name I cannot call to mind, but could obtain no answer, much less a redress of grievances; and to add to the calamity, near a dozen of the prisoners were dangerously ill of the scurvy. I wrote private letters to the doctors, to procure, if possible, some remedy for the...
Date: 15 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The Memorial of Thomas Cushing Esqr ー Humbly Sheweth, that One of the Continental Frigates built to carry Twenty four Nine pound Cannon, may Soon be got ready for Sailing, but is destitute of Guns, that your Memorialist was to have been furnished with the Cannon for this Vessel from Philadelphia but by the last Accounts receiv'd from thence he has reason to fear they will not be here seasonably,...
Date: 15 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The Spirit of Privateering prevails here greatly. the Success of those that have before Engaged in that Business has been sufficient to make a whole Country privateering mad. many kinds of West india Goods that we used to be told we should suffer for want of, are now plentier and cheaper than I have known them for many Years.
Date: 15 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
1776.
6 O'clock P.M: Met according to Adjournment at the Council Chamber, [Boston].
Aug. 15.
Mr. Lesley & Family, Thomas Hayter, Lieutenant in the 14 Regiment, Robert Porter, Passenger, Thomas Collins a Drummer in the 14 Regiment, William Jenkins the Master; Thoinas Green a Servant to Lt Hayter, all of whom were taken in a Brigt bound from Augustine to London2 &...
Date: 15 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Auction at Bedford, in Dartmouth. On Thursday, the 22d of August Instant, At Ten o'clock in the Morning, will begin the Sale of the Prize Ship Reynolds, from Jamaica, now laying at Bedford, in Dartmouth, 2 and continued by Adjournment, until the Whole is sold; containing as follows, viz. 302 Hogsheads of choice Sugars, 74 Puncheons of Rum; 52 Pipes, 10 half Pipes, 10 Butts and 4...
Date: 15 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Notice is hereby given, That the Maritime Court for the Middle District, will be held at Boston in the County of Suffolk, on Thursday the fifth Day of September, 1776, at the Hour of Ten in the Forenoon, to try the Justice of the following Captures, to wit, ー of the Sloop named the Isabella, of about Seventy Tons Burthen, lately commanded by one Nathaniel Kirk, and her Cargo and Appurtenances: of...
Date: 15 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Last Sunday was sent in here by the Brigt. Enterprize, and sloop Bever, two Letter Marques, bound from New York to St. Eustatia, a ship from Grenada, bound to London, laden with sugar, rum, cotton, &c. &c.1
Since our last the Tyrannicide privateer, Capt. Fisk, belonging to, and in the service of this state, sent into Salem, the Brigt. St. John, with a cargo of 120 Hhds....
Date: 15 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Yesterday se'nnight was sent into Portsmouth by the Hancock Vessel of War, belonging to the State of Pennsylvania, a large three-decked Ship, named the Reward, of between 5 and 600 Tons, (She was a 20 gun Ship last War, in the British Service,) now mounting 14 Guns; was from Tortola, bound to London, and had on board between 10 and 1100 Hogsheads of Sugar, 12 Bales of Cotton, and several Pieces...
Date: 15 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Remks on Thursday 15th of August 1776
2 [A. M.]
heavy head sea
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hald down all sails
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Tack ship
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Pleasant Weather I find the Current has Carried us 38 miles south this 24 hours
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Pleasant weather
Lattd in 35d 5m Longd in 60d 25m
1 [P. M.]
Saw a sail barring west gave Chaise came up fast
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Spake with the Chaise Capt. Jno Warner in the Sloop Ranger from...
Date: 15 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Remarks On Thusday August 15, 1776
att 6 am saw 2 Ships standing to the N E Gave them Chase att 10 saw that one was a Ship of force the wind Blowing frish Reaft the m sail gave them over Bore Up to the Prise got one Dolphinー
Lattd 32:25 Londg in 57:40
first part Sqaly Sum Rain a Large Sea at 2 Came up the prise all well on Bord the moderate weather [illegible] Middle part
Date: 15 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The bearer of this is Capt. Exceen, the brig Friendship, loaded by me in April last, by direction of a committee of Continental Congress, with wheat and flour for Lisbon. He is returned with his brig to Fire island inlet, with a load of salt. He had orders to apply to the Convention of whatever State he arrived at on his return to this Continent. He now waits your directions. Your most hble....
Date: 15 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The Congress resumed the consideration of the instructions given to Commodore Hopkins, his examination and answers, &c. and, thereupon, came to the following resolution:
Resolved, That the said Commodore Hopkins, during his cruize to the southward, did not pay due regard to the tenor of his instructions, whereby he was expressly directed to annoy the enemy's ships upon the coasts of the...
Date: 15 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The Committee considering the favorable opportunity that now presents for shipping off Produce from this Port and other places to the Southward, the Enemies .Men of War having gone.
Agreed That the sum of eighty thousand Dollars be advanced Mr [Robert] Morris to be by him laid out in produce and exported on the Continental Account. Accordingly an order was drawn on the Treasurer in his favor for...
Date: 15 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The Commodore'[s] excuse for not going to Souther[n] colonies agreeable to orders.
[Be]fore he left capes of Delaware, he heard the Liverpool was joined to Ld Dunmore, wch made enemy an overmatch. & many of his men sea sick.
he did not go to N. Carolina bec. [he] recd intelligce the enemy's force hd gone from there & from S. Cara to Georgia. (his men recovd as he got to the Southward)
he...
Date: 15 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I am Going On a Bout the timber and other thing[s] for the Gundeloes Which I shall Purchase and Bring into the yard as fast as Posible But have made No Bargin With you a Bout it ー I shall Charge the Same for My Time as When I Superidentended the Frigat Busines Which Was 22 j6d P Day and I had the Liberty of Furnishing her With all the Bar Iron Deliver'd at the Place at £26 pr Toon I Mean Mr Wells...
Date: 15 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Ordered that a Warrant Issue to John Mayo Esqr for two pounds thirteen shillings and five pence half penny for Flour furnished Capt [Isaac] Younghusband of Musketo Cruizerー
Ordered that a Warrant Issue to John Rogers for One hundred pounds upon Account for furnishing Necessaries and paying of Carpenters at Work on six Boats now Building at Portsmouth under the Direction of Colo Adani Stephens and...
Date: 15 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
From the best authority, I am informed, that four French frigates are ordered to cruize about this island to protect the American trade, and two Spanish ships are to do the same about Porto Rico for the like purpose. There are about 8 or 10,000 troops in this Island. ー Twenty-nine ships of the line are getting ready at Brest, and 14 at Toulon, & 20,000 land forces, to put to sea, but where...
Date: 15 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Gentlemen We did ourselves the Honour of writing you from St Eustatia on the 14th of June, acquainting you of our Connection, & making a tender of our Services, wch we hope got to hand, being accompanied with a considerable Quantity of Powder shippd you by our AVB in the Brigt Friendship Capt [John] Martin.ー
The present serves to cover Invoices of two Parcells of Gun Powder & Arms Shipped...
Date: 15 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
...our business of building, and reconstructing are going on as fast as our paucity of proper hands, will admit of. After a very long passage the Twenty Glasgow Shipwrights, and ten house Carpenters, from Portsmouth, are at last arrived, and are to be hurried up to Chambly from Transport to Transport, Relays whereof are placed, with proper rowing Boats to ensure the Conveyance upwards of the...
Date: 16 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Yesterday Capt. Wingate Newman, arrived in the Privateer nam'd the Hancock, from Philadelphia, she brought in as a prize, (which is now safely anchored before this town) the ship Nancy from Antigua, Capt Keys, bound to London, having on board about 400 hogsheads of sugar, 90 of rum, and a few casks of Madeira wine. Three or four gentleman passengers, and a lady came in the above ship. — He...
Date: 16 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6