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Capt John Lambert's Roll of Brig Massachusetts1 Crew for one months advance Wages amounting to Two hundred thirty eight pounds seven shillings & four pence—Read & Allowed & Ordered that Warrants be drawn on the Treasury in full discharge of each of the above Rolls—Warrants drawn accordingly—
Date: 30 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Order'd, That Ebenezer Fosters Bill for Sundry[s] for Brigt. Penet1 £1.. 4..— be paid—
Also, That he be paid for Sundrys for Lincoln Galley £4.. 4.. 9
Order'd, That Messrs. Bowdoin & Reed for Flaxseed for Brg Nants2 & Casks for do. as pr Account be p'd ...£349..11..—3
Order'd, That Mr. Ivers...
Date: 30 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
We have received your favours of the 19th, 22nd, 23rd & 24th1 instant and returning thanks for the Contents we shall reply to them in course.
In answer to yours of the 19th. we received the Letters Sent down to you for your opinion, and think with you that Mr. Steward2 is a very honest Active man, we have wrote him to have the Brigantine chartered...
Date: 30 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Yours of the 18th. is just come to Hand. The Galley1 left this some Days past to meet your Vessel,2 according to appointment, with the Stores required. We would have you proceed to meet the Galley. We shall be under Difficulties in sending hands from hence & hope you will be able to procure them. We shall, in a few Days, send to you at Smith's Creek where, we...
Date: 30 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
January 1778
Friday 30th.
Moored in Hampton Road Virginia
Moderate & Cloudy [AM] Sent the Boats on bd. ye. Victualer for Provisions & employd. Carryg. Staves Hoops & Casks on board the Jane Victualer
Moored in Hampton Road Virginia
Light Airs [PM] the Otter & Arm'd Schooner1 went in Chace of a Ship that hoisted...
Date: 30 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
depuis le 10 de ce mois queje suis a ma croisiere, sur le mole st nicolas, jai chassé et joint le 25, a trois lieuës au nordouest de la pointe occidentale de la tortuë une petite goëlette anglaise, n'ayant que 10 pierriers et 17 hommes d'equipage, nommée le mosquito commandeé par le second pilote de la fregate le winchelsea nommé james seton qui ma fait voir son ordre du capitaine...
Date: 30 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
By your Excellency's Letter of the 27th. of Decemb. last I find that a mere naked Information, which You say to have receiv'd of a Sloop mounting fourteen Guns actually fitted out at St. Thomas, has not only alarm'd You, but also induced Your Excellency on the Strenght of this Information, to call upon me in the Name of the King, Your Master, not only to stor, and disarm the...
Date: 30 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
In the House of Representatives. On the Petition of the HonbIe. William Seaver1 Esqr.
Resolved, That the said William Seaver Esqr. receive out of the Publick Treasury of this State Eight hundred forty One Pounds, Eight Shillings and four pence in full of his Account for building the Brigantine Independence2 and furnishing her with Sundry...
Date: 31 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Order'd, That George Minot's Bill for Wharfage of Brigt Nants1 amog. to £6.. 8/. be paid.—
Voted, That Jona. Glover Esqr be desir'd to procure a Master & Crew for the Brigt Favorite.—2
Order'd, That the Ballance of Ebenezer Foster's Account for Sundry Iron Work for Brigt Massachusetts3 £25.. 9...
Date: 31 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
You being Commander of the arm'd Briga Massachusetts. Your orders are to proceed with the first fair wind on a Cruize from hence to the Coast of England Spain or Portugal,
In this Cruize you are to use your best exertions to Capture or destroy all Arm'd and other Vessells laden with British property
Should you meet with Fish or Lumber Vessells or Vessells from the Coast of Africa we...
Date: 31 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
"We take the earliest opportunity to Acquaint you of the Amval of a Prize Sloop1 taken by Capt. Robert Herbert2 in your Privateer Brigantine Liberty,3 the Circumstances of which as given in by the Prize Master Mr. Seth Cobb,4 are as follows, On the 5th of November the Sloop near the Rock of Lisbon on her Passage from Malaga to London laden with...
Date: 31 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
January 1778
Saturday 31
Moor'd as before [in Newport harbor]
at 8 AM hove up and came to Sail, modt: & hazey Wr:
Abreast the Lighthouse [at Beaver Tail Point]
PM fresh Breezes and thick hazey Wr: at 2 the West End of Block Island NE dist: 2 Leagues, at 3 saw a Sloop to the SW, gave Chace, fir'd several Guns with round and Grape at her, at 5 brought too...
Date: 31 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
I rec'd your favour by Capt Barry with its enclosures for which I thank you &herewith send a packet for Messrs Hewes & Smith1 which I beg you will forward by their express and inform me first Conveyance whether the Committee send them any Money. I shou'd also if agreable to the Committee be glad to see H & S.s letter to them which shall be Returned...
Date: 31 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
January 1778
Saturday 31st.
Moored in Hampton Road Virginia
at 3 AM Came on board the Schooner1 Mr. Athern fell from on board the Schooner & was drownd'd
Moored in Hampton Road Virginia
Moderate and hazy [PM] sent the Schooner and Pinnace with a Lieutt. in chace of a Sloop in the NE Qr. at 5 returned ye. Arm'd Schooner ...
Date: 31 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Now we are Agoing on a New Cruse1 and a new Yeair Jan 1778 I have had A Long time to think of What I am A Going to undertake but I am Very well Satisfied that we Are in a Good Cause & we are fiting the Lords Battel and we are Getting under sail Runing Down from Georgetown the Next Day put to See Standing to the Southward the Next Day att Day Light Saw a Sail to the Eastward then...
Date: 31 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
I had the honor of your Excellency's dispatch of the 16th. Instant, by the Chevalier de Cuverville,1 to whom I shall, with pleasure, render every kind of civility.
The nature of your Excellency's complaints against the person commanding the Tender, called the Snail,2 relative to the Commission granted by Captain Garnier,3 and the Vexations your Vessels...
Date: 31 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Janry. 1778
Saturday 31
St. eustatia Bore NW & by N 3 or 4 Leagues
at 7 A.M Came to Anchor in eustatia Road wth. the Best Bower in 11 fathm. water Veer'd away to Half a Cable found riding here the Rattlesnake Privateer Belonging to America1 [S]ent the pinnace on shore wth. an Officer to the Governor for [Inte]lligence at 11...
Date: 31 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
We have Already had the pleasure of writeing you by this Conveyance, and are now Sorry to Acqut. you that we have rec'd Accots. of one of the fish Vessells mention'd in our last being retaken, & carried into Dominica, & the other we fear has met with the same fate, as She does not yet Appear. You will please for the future to Order all Captains in the Service who may...
Date: 31 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
We your Honors Committee appointed to take into Consideration what measures ought to be come into for the better regulation and Government of the Navy or Vessels of Force fitted out by this State, and the Officers marines and Mariners employd on board of Said Vessels—
Take leave to Report That in the Opinion of this Committee The following Bill be passed into an Act of this Assembly ...
Date: 1 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Whereas that one twentieth part of all ye prices belong captured by the Armd. Vessells belonging to this State (which by ye Rules of Congress as approp relative to all prizes taken by Continental Vessells is appropriated to ye Commadore or Commander in chief of ye Continental Fleet) in this State has not been appropriated but is now in y...
Date: 1 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11