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Esteemed Friend Having none of thy favors unanswer'd we have nothing in particular to reply to, the present is to sollicit the favor of thy Consignments & at the same time beg leave to acquaint thee that we do not intend sending the Hanbury or any other Ship to Virga this year,2 flatter ourselves that this Circumstance will in no degree prevent any of our friends from favoring us...
Date: 7 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
[Continuation of Letter begin February 18th.]
No alteration in prices at this markett, but we find that London & Bristol are rising in spite of the large imports there, occasioned by the Supposition that all the american ports will be blocked up by government. There are 321 bars of the Peggy's flour sold at different prices.
We have debitted your acct Rs. 5 & 145 for charges we made with...
Date: 8 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On the repeated representations of the English Ambassador at the Hague, a ship laden with powder and other ammunition now lying in Texel, bound for St. Eustatia, has been detained there, by order of the Government.
Date: 9 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
March 9. The House having resolved itself into a Committee on the Papers relative to the Disturbances in America,
Lord North moved, that the Chairman be directed to move the House, "That leave be given to bring in a Bill to restrain the trade and commerce of the colonies of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina, to Great Britain, Ireland, and the British islands in the...
Date: 9 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I have already told you, Sir, that we have good reason to be satisfied with Md. Rochford's explanations concerning the orders given to the British ships which are cruising on the coast of the English Colonies of America; we could wish for nothing more in this matter, except that these orders be precise enough so as to contain the greed of the captains to whom they are addressed: it is in the...
Date: 9 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
March 1775
Friday 10
Moor'd in Rhode Island Harbour
light breezes and Cloudy PM came in HM Schooner Hope, . . . delivrd to the Hope Schooner 11 Bales of Marine Cloathing & 9 Casks of Camp Equipage Recd from Do 50 Musquets & 50 Bayonets, 1 Barrl of Powder, 3 Boxes of Shot, 1 Bag of Flints, . . .
Date: 10 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
In consequence of the information received from Captain [Isaac] Sears, relative to the suspicion that some part of the cargo of the ship Beulah, had been unladed before she quitted this coast, the Committee of Observation for this town, met this evening, and made enquiry respecting the affair; and thereupon have to inform you, that it appears to them that a boat belonging to this town, did last...
Date: 10 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Honble Sirs I beg leave to acquaint you I arrived here the 6th inst in consequence of a Seizure I made on the 2d the Deposition of which will be transmitted you by the Governor, but I lament it is not in my power to give you the particular contents of the laden, as when I was attacked they robbed me of the Minute I'de taken with some things of considerable value my own property.
From the...
Date: 10 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Came before the Subscriber one of the Lords Proprietary his Justices of the Provincial Court Robert Stratford Byrne, Surveyor of His Majesty's Customs for Sassafras & Bohemia, and made Oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God, that on Thursday the Second Day of March, last being in Kent County Maryland on the great Road leading to Duck Creek in Pensylvania, he this Deponent fell in with two...
Date: 10 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Hon: Sirs We are sorry to have occasion to trouble you at this time on a disagreeable subject, but the inhuman Treatment which Mr Robert Stratford Byrn has received as an Officer of the Customs from a licentious Mob, renders it absolutely necessary that you should as speedily as possible be furnished with a clear and precise Account of the matter, for which purpose we beg leave to transmit a...
Date: 10 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
This day the libel exhibited against the schooner Wray galley, laden with 84 hogsheads of tobacco, by Henry Collins, Esq; commander of his Majesty's armed schooner Magdalen, came on to be heard in the court of Admiralty. The cause of seizure alledged was a supposed violation of an act of Parliament, in not having given bond, before any tobacco had been taken on board, that the same should be...
Date: 10 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Bill intended to restrict the trade of New England and prevent the latter from fishing on the Banks of Newfoundland or along the coast of Northern America was passed the day before yesterday with a majority of 188 voices against 58 at the House of Commons. This Bill sets 1 July of this year as the date when the interdiction will go into effect for the New Englanders to export any kind of...
Date: 10 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Committee of Observation of this town, have this day used their endeavours to make a further discovery, relating to the unlading part of the cargo of the ship Beulah, but are not able to give you the information they desire Samuel Lee, a Boatman of this town, employed and accompanied by Ichabod B. Barnet, Esq; (son in law to Robert Murray) appear from very strong circumstances, to have been...
Date: 11 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
By Sundry favrs of Mr Jas Forde of Dro[g]heda In which we have Recvd order for Wheat, he Requests our Informing you what we are doing for him. We can now Inform you that the Brig Henry & Joseph2
Henry Tickell Master is Arrived here from Liverpool with a Cargo of White Salt for Acct of Mr Jas Forde & the Restrictions on our trade from England hindering us to Even...
Date: 11 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Bill for preventing the 4 New England Governments from fishing and confining their trade in every Article whatsoever to G. Britain, Ireland and the Brittish W. Indias, is now before the Lords having passed the H. of C ー last night. I prepared a pretty strong petition against it to the Lords, which the London Merchants here will get presented on the 14th inst on its second reading; still the...
Date: 11 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
His Majesty's armed schooner Halifax, commanded by Lieut. [Joseph] Nunn, was lately cast away near Machias, at the Eastern Part of this Province; the Vessel entirely lost, but the People with some Difficulty saved themselves.
Date: 13 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The ship Bealah,2 which lately arrived at N York from England, with a cargo of goods prohibited by Congress, was obliged to depart again with all her goods. She sailed back again from N York for Halifax Tuesday 7th Inst Great were the exertions of the Tories at N York to retain and unlade her; and also to obstruct the choosing of Delegates to the next Continental Congress. ー but with...
Date: 13 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Last Sunday Week [March 5] at two o'clock the Ship Beulah, Capt. Bussell, left the Watering-place, and proceeded on her Voyage to Halifax, in Nova Scotia, with the Goods she had brought from London to this Port.1
On Friday Evening the 10th Inst. arrived here the Ship York, Capt. Acklin, from London, with Passengers. ー At the Request of the Consignee and Captain of the Ship, three...
Date: 13 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Gentlemen, Having been disappointed in our design of reshipping the cargo of the ship Beulah (lately arrived from London) in another bottom, by which we were great sufferers, and though we then conceived that such our design, if executed, would have been a compliance with the resolution of the Congress: We acknowledge that to alleviate in some measure the great loss we sustained, we have been...
Date: 13 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
SAMUEL Lee, of Elizabeth-Town, boatman, being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, deposeth and saith, that on Sunday the 5th inst. he (at the request of Ichabod B. Barnet, Esq:) sail'd from Elizabeth Town aforesaid to New York, in the boat or sloop he usually goes in, the said Barnet going as a hand with him; that he arriv'd there the same evening; that while they were on their...
Date: 13 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1