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You being intrusted with the Care of a Cartel, to go to Newport, are to proceed there assoon as possible. You will deliver to the Order of Sir Peter Parker the two Midshipmen and Seamen put on Board the Cartel, taking a Receipt for them.
You will receive such Prisoners as Sir Peter shall send on Board your Vessel, and such Women and Children as Lord Percy shall permit to come off.2
You...
Date: 16 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I am to acknowledge the Receipt of your Excellency's ー Letter of the 6th instant, and to inform you that, Zealous to do every Thing in our Power to serve the common cause of America, the ー Committee have determined, instead of the small armed Sloop, to send the large Vessel with Fifty Men upon the Bermuda Enterprise; with Orders to Capt. [Abraham] Whipple to cruize Ten Days off Sandy-Hook for the...
Date: 9 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
By the Committee appointed by the General Assembly of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations to act during the Recess of the General Assembly.
Instructions to be observed by Captain Abraham Whipple ー Commander of the Sloop Katy in the Service of the said Colony.
You are to embrace the First suitable Wind and Weather and proceed immediately with the said Sloop, and the Officers and...
Date: 11 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I Received yours of yesterday and am Sory to find the Removing the Stock has met with so much obstruction the Expence must amount to much more than all the Stock is Worth if we had orderd the inhabitants to drove all the Stock into the Sea and the government a paid for it it would have been a great Saving to the government I would advise you to discharg all the men immediately but them that...
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I am favoured with a Letter from Govr [Jonathan] Trumbull in Answer to mine proposing a Voyage to Bayonne, in which he informs me that the Council of the Colony of Connecticut are summoned to meet this Day to take the Scheme into Consideration. ー This Sir is the Time to exert ourselves in sending to Europe for Powder, as the Vessels may perform their Voyages and return upon this Coast in the...
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I observe that in the Cambridge Paper of Yesterday ー there is an Extract of a Letter from Bermuda to New York giving an Account that upwards of 100 Barrels of Powder had been taken out of the Magazine, supposed to have been done by a Vessel from ー Philadelphia and another from South-Carolina. ー This Intelligence appears to me to be true; and I beg to know your Excellency's Opinion of it as soon...
Date: 15 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
On recept of this you are to Proceede Directly out to Sea in the Night on your arivall of[f] Block Island then and not till then Open this letter, In there, is your Order, and follow the Same, from Me &c
Date: 20 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
In consequence of your Letter of the 18th instant we have sent our small armed Vessel with Orders to Capt. [Abraham] Whipple to relinquish the Voyage to Bermuda, and to prolong his Cruise for the Packet to the Sixth Day of October.
Agreeable to your advise I have communicated the proposed Adventure to Bayonne to the [Continental] Congress, and most heartily wish it may be pursued, as the Ability...
Date: 26 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Your Favour of the 18th instant hath been duly received. In Compliance with which I give you the following Extract from General Washington's Letter to me of the same Date. "The Voyage to Bayonne is what I should much approve and recommend. The Person sent to Gov. Trumbull hath not yet called upon me; but the Scheme appears so feasable that I should be glad to see it executed. At the same Time I...
Date: 26 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The Packet sent out to countermand Capt. [Abraham] Whipple's Voyage to Bermuda cruised until the 27th instant, and then returned without being able to see him ー I think it probable that Capt. Whipple had gained Intelligence of the Arrival of the Packet at New-York, and pursued his Voyage before the Time limited for the Expiration of his Cruise.
We are informed that Six Transports, with some Ships...
Date: 29 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I have this Moment received by Express Orders from the Hon'ble Continental Congress to dispatch the Two armed Vessels belonging to the Colony2 on a Cruize after 2 Brigs that sailed from England on the 11th August last for Quebec wth 6000 Stand of Arms Powder &c ー I think it my Duty to inform your Excellency that the large Sloop hath not yet returned from her Bermuda Expedition; and...
Date: 10 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I have just received a Letter by Express from Mr President Hancock with Orders to dispatch our armed Vessels to intercept Two Brig's from England to Quebec. Our large Vessel is upon a Voyage to Bermuda and the small One is unfit for the Service. I have given Information of this to Genl Washington & Gov. Trumbull that they may not make any Reliance upon our assisting in this important...
Date: 10 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Your Application to me by Messrs [Samuel] Dyre, [John] Jepson, and [John] Malbone engaged my utmost Attention; and I embraced the Opportunity of taking the Advice of a Committee of the Honble the Continental Congress, now sitting here, upon the important subject of it. They unanimously gave their Opinion that the Inhabitants of Newport should supply the Ships of War with Beer and fresh Provisions...
Date: 21 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Messrs. S. Dyre, J. Jepson, and J. Malbone, have waited upon me with a Memorial from the Town Council of Newport, setting forth the deep distresses of that town, and pressing in the strongest terms for the removal of the troops. I laid the application before the Committee of the Continental Congress, now sitting here, who unanimously gave their advice that the inhabitants should supply Wallace...
Date: 21 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The Committee then proceeded to the Consideration of such Matters as have been mentioned in the Generals Letters to the Congress upon which no Order had been made
2. What Distinctions are necessary to be made between Vessels & Cargoes taken by the armed Vessels in the Pay of the Continent & those taken by Individuals. Should not the fitting out Privateers by Individuals be done under some...
Date: 22 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Capt. Whipple returned here from his voyage to Bermuda, on Friday last [October 20]. He had received authentic intelligence of the arrival of the packet at New York before the first time limited for his cruise was expired, and immediately sailed for Bermuda. He had light flattering winds for several days, and when near the island met with a violent gale, which drove him three or four degrees to...
Date: 25 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
When we removed Part of the Live Stock from Block Island in July last a Number of Cattle were left, so poor (owing to the severe Drought) that they were totally unfit for the Knife. The plentiful Rains that have since fallen have increased the Feed so much that there are now upwards of 300 fit for Market. The Island is situated so far from the Continent that any Attempt to remove them will be...
Date: 28 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
At the thought of the Committee appointed to act during the Recess of the General Assembly I give you the following Orders and Instructions ー You are with the Sloop Katy and the Officers and Men to her belonging under your Command to embrace the First suitable Time and proceed with said Sloop on a Cruise against the Enemies of the United Colonies ー You are to cruize with the said Sloop from...
Date: 12 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Providence smiles upon us by Sea as well as by Land. Several Vessels with Supplies for the ministerial Army in Boston having been lately taken by our Cruizers; of which I make no Doubt you have been informed. By a Gentleman who left Philadelphia on the 5th instant we have Accounts that the Congress having equipped Two Frigates of Thirty six 12 & 9 Pounders each; and that Half of the...
Date: 14 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
By the Honorable Nicholas Cooke, Esq., Governor, Captain General and Commander-in-Chief of and over the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in. New England, in America, To Abraham Whipple, Commander of the sloop Katy, in the service of the Colony aforesaid,
Greeting:
At the request of the committee appointed to act during the recess of the General Assembly, you are hereby...
Date: 21 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2