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Two vessels have arrived here since the first of February one of them from Glasgow has been obliged to depart with her Cargoe to Jamaica.2 Neither the Master of the Ship nor the merchant to whom the Cargoe was consigned, would demand any assistance, or shewed any inclination to have the goods landed. It was not therefore possible for Government to interfere with any propriety. The...
Date: 1 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We had the pleasure of writing you under the 8th of last Decem a Copy of which you have Annaxed; to which plase be Referd. since then have Recvd Sundry Copys of your orders for Wheat to our G. Salmon, and note the Contents. we find it Impossible as yet to get a Vessel for your port. had it been in our power, we would had one of your Cargoes of Wheat well on the Way to you however if any Vessel...
Date: 1 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
This Instant I Received your favor p Capn Craig, and find you had made Insurance, on the 6 Pipes of Wine wh naturally Augments the Price, But as I am convinced your Intentions where for my Intrist in covering them you have my thanksー
Sorry that the Wines tum out so Indifferant, I cant git the first Cost owing to their Indifferent Quallity, As to the Pipe Referd to for help of Brandy, All that Mr...
Date: 1 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
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Capt [John] Collins Commander of His Majestys Sloop Nautilus (by whom you will receive this) being directed to put himself under your command & follow your Orders for his further proceedings; You are hereby required and directed to take him and the said Sloop under your command accordingly & employ them in such manner as you shall find best for his Majestys Service entrusted to...
Date: 1 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
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Whereas His Majestys Schooner the St Lawrence has been found unfit for further Service, And Whereas we think fit, that another Schooner shall be purchased to supply her Place, You are hereby required & directed to purchase another Schooner accordingly upon the best & cheapest terms you can for His Majesty and to draw upon the Navy Board for the expence thereof.
You are to cause...
Date: 1 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Part of the Troops now Orderd for Embarkation here and Ireland, are to rendezvous at New York, to make it a Place of Arms securing the Defection of that Province from the general Alliance in the Cause of Freedom, and every Thing that is dear to Man: and to prevent the Communication between Virginia, Maryland, and the other Southern Colonies, with New England, when General [Thomas] Gage with such...
Date: 1 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Measures of the Ministry will I hope, do more towards uniting the Colonies, than any Efforts of America itself; You will easily perceive their wicked Intentions to divide as well as their Designs after that hoped for Division, They have high hopes of Success from the last Accounts from New York. I trust the People of that Province will soon displace those rascally and treacherous Tories in...
Date: 1 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The inclosed paper will give you a true Idea of Lord North's motion, that is, what he meant by it. Last night we were heard and produced evidence at the Bar of the House of Commons against the Fish Bill as 'tis called, of which you have a copy. Our evidence has embarassed the Minister, but still I think the Bill will pass which will embarrass him still more in this Country. Ld North's resolution...
Date: 1 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
At a meeting of the Committee of Inspection, at the Library Chamber, to determine what ought to be done with respect to a vessel that arrived here this day from Bristol, supposed to have goods and merchandise for Captain Thomas Coulson on board:
Voted, That Mr. Benjamin Mussey, Captain Joseph McLellan, and Mr. Benjamin Titcomb, be a Committee to employ some person to see that no goods are landed...
Date: 2 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Gentlemen I return you my most hearty thanks for your Address, and am to assure you that I feel great Satisfaction in having contributed to the safety and protection of a People so eminent for their Loyalty to their King and Affection to their Country, at a time when Treason and Rebellion is making such hasty Strides to overturn our most excellent Constitution, and spread Ruin and Desolation...
Date: 2 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
His Excellency General [Thomas] Gage, having information that some brass cannon were deposited in or near Salem, he sent an officer to endeavor to discover where they were lodged, at the same time he ordered a transport to receive on board a detachment of the 64th regiment under the command of Lieut Col [Alexander] Leslie to bring away the above cannon They landed at Marblehead last Sunday [...
Date: 2 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
1775
2d. [March]
The Kings pleasure was signified by the Earl of Dartmouth for a Frigate to be provided to carry the Major Generals [William] Howe [John] Burgoyne & [Henry] Clinton to Boston. And The Cerberus was accordingly ordered.
Date: 2 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
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Captain [James] Chads Commander of His Majts. Ship the Cerberus by whom you will receive this being directed to proceed to Boston with the Major General's [William] Howe, [John] Burgoyne, & [Henry] Clinton and to return immediately afterwards to Spithead with any Dispatches you or Genl. [Thomas] Gage may have to send, You are hereby required and directed to hasten the said Captain'...
Date: 2 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
As I was, two Days ago, with M. Grimaldi upon some Business, relating to a new Duty on Rum exacted at Cadiz, I took Occasion to repeat what I had before said to him, on the Subject of searching and seizing such Vessels, as should be carrying on an illicit Trade to North America, and I had the Satisfaction, not only to find him in the same Sentiments which he had professed before, on my first...
Date: 2 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Committee of Inspection met, pursuant to adjournment. Present: Enoch Freeman, Esquire, Messrs. Daniel Ilsley, Benjamin Titcomb, Enoch Ilsley, John Waite, Stephen Waite, Benjamin Mussey, William Owen, Samuel Knights, Jedediah Cobb, John Butter, Jabez Jones, Smith Cobb, Peletiah March, Pearson Jones, Joseph Noyes, Samuel Freeman, Joseph McLellan, Theophilus Parsons
The question being put...
Date: 3 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A Report prevailing Yesterday in Town that a large Number of Troops were embarked on board Transports at Boston, with an Intention to seize the Cannon at Fort-Island, some People assembled in the Evening, and removed them to a more secure place.
Date: 3 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A Caution to the PUBLICK.
Be it known, that his Majesty's armed schooner MAGDALEN, HENRY COLLINS, Esq; commander, mounting four carriage guns, besides swivels, &c. now lies moored opposite to Burwell's ferry, for the purpose of bringing to and searching all vessels going up and down James river. [Note well! masters and owners, that the King pays no costs or damages in his Admiralty courts,...
Date: 3 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having received Advice that Insurance has been made on the Ship Prosperity, ー French, Master, bound from Dunkirk to North America (with liberty to touch at St Eustatia) having on board a quantity of Tea intended, as supposed, to be run into some of His Majesty's Colonies there; I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you therewith, that you may cause...
Date: 3 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir I have received and communicated to my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your Letter of the 8th of January last, enclosing Copies of the Letters you had received from Governor [John] Wentworth relative to the riotous proceedings in New Hampshire, and giving an account of the steps you had taken thereupon, as also of your proceedings up to the date of your Letter; and in return I am to...
Date: 3 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I have the honor to inform you at the request of Mylord Rochford that, as a result of the protests I made in your name to this Minister, the Court of London deeming this matter important enough to take new precautions, has sent with dispatch to its sea officers on duty in America the most positive orders to use the greatest care in avoiding to give us the smallest ground for complaint.
I believe...
Date: 3 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1