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This goes p Capt Amos Rider of the Schooner Brittania Chartered on your Acct for the Southern States. This Schooner I should have sent directly to Messrs Purveyance at Baltimore had I not been prevented by the Intelligence recd here by A Schooner from thence in a short passage. that Intelligence I gave you by Doct Roberts. it is Since Confirmed by a Vessel from Philadelphia. I am fully Convinced...
Date: 3 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
You Are hereby Impowered and Desired to Go on Board the shooner Hannah As Master, Embrace the first Good Oppertunity, Come to sail And proceed with All possible Dispatch to North Carolina, and their Dispose of your Cargo And Lay Out the proceeds In the Most Advantageous Manner in flour, wheat, [illegible] Beans Indian Corn, And Rice, Giving preference to these Articles In the Order they stand,...
Date: 7 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I have the pleasure to Inform you that Capt [Isaac] Bartlett in Schooner Plymouth Arrived here yesterday, with 2 or 300 Arms, A little duck, A few flints, & some few Other Articles, as much as his own Cargo would purchase after A poor sale he left Hallet 2 at Martinico 25 days ago to sail in five days after him, heard of Coffin, & McClannin at St Petre. the Schooner the last...
Date: 9 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
This pr Capt Auldon [Jonathan Alden] 2 is to inform your Honor, of the safe arrival in this port, of the Brigantine Grogg, from Ireland, Leden with Beef, Butter, Potatoes, Herrings, & sundry other Articles, Taken by Capt Smedley, of the Brigtne Defence, belonging to the State of Connetticutt ー
The prize Master, has applyed to us as Continental Agents, for assistance, we have taken every...
Date: 21 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
[1777. January] 16. A number of seamen's wives came on board to-day, and upon being told that they had American prisoners on board, "Have you?" said one to the other; "What sort of people are they?" "Are they white?" "Can they talk?" Upon being pointed to where some of them stood, "Why!" exclaimed they, "they look like our people, and they talk English."
Date: 16 January 1777
Volume: Volume 8
[1777. January] 18. To-day is the Queen's birth-day, and every ship in the harbor that is in commission, fired twenty-one guns, as a royal salµte.
19. Sunday. To-day we were removed from the Reasonable to the Bellisle, a ship of sixty-four guns, after having been on boarµ the Reasonable twenty-seven days. Here we lodged in the cable-tier, 011 boards laid over the cable, which is better than we...
Date: 19 January 1777
Volume: Volume 8
[1777. January] 27. The daily allowance on board His Majesty's ships, is: Sunday, pork and peas; Monday, birgu,2 butter and cheese; Tuesday, beef and pudding; Wednesday, birgu and peas, butter and cheese; Thursday, pork and peas; Friday, birgu and peas, butter and cheese; Saturday, beef and pudding; a pint of wine, or half a pint of rum, when at sea; and when in port, beer in abundance...
Date: 28 January 1777
Volume: Volume 8
[1777] February 5. It is a pay-day for bounty, on board this ship, (the Bellisle,) which occasions a great market on board
6. We begin to grow very sickly, and twenty or thirty of us are suffering with the itch, and we are all dreadfully infested with vermin. I make a constant practice of examining my clothes every day, when we are permitted to go upon deck. I often find them swarming with these...
Date: 6 February 1777
Volume: Volume 8
. . . The Mill Prison, used during the French and Spanish War, is to be got ready to receive the American Prisoners.
Date: 9 February 1777
Volume: Volume 8
[1777. February] 7. We were removed from the Bellisle, after having been on board nineteen days, and were carried up to Ammores [Hamoze ], and put on board the "Tarbay," a ship of seventy-four guns, and confined in the bay, between decks, where there was not room for all of us to lay down; it is parted. off, like a sheep-pen, and takes in two side-ports only.
8. Pleasant weather, but very cold...
Date: 10 February 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Feb. 13, 1777. Third remove from the Torbay ー after being on board her 6 days ー to the Burford of 70 guns, George Bowyer, Esq, commander, a man of humanity, tenderness and compassion, which we have all experienced. When he found what a situation Fitzherbet2 left us in, he expressed himself surprised, and told us he would do all in his power to make our situation as comfortable as...
Date: 13 February 1777
Volume: Volume 8
A few days ago I spoke with a French Ship from Brest bound to Havre she sailed from Brest the St Instant and the Master of her said, that Twelve sail of the Line (all Seventy fours) and Six Frigates, were in all respects ready to put to Sea, and that twenty eight sail more of the Line were fitting; How far this may be credited, though the Master and the Crew affirmed it, I submit to their...
Date: 22 February 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Arrived here his Majesty's ship Liverpool, Capt. Henry Bellew, from America, th e ship which has been so fortunate in retaking many West India ships from the rebels.
[Printer's note] It is said that the crew of the Liverpool man of war have received upwards of 40 I. each, prize money, for captures they have made since their being on the American station.
Date: 3 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
[1777. May] 5. This morning Joseph Hatch, one of our company, died with small-pox. He is the second of our company that has died in these hospitals. 2
6. I begin to grow bravely, and have a very good appetite for my victuals. I remain very sore, yet not so sore as I was two or three days ago; as my pox ran all together then, when I used to rise up in bed to receive any thing, and...
Date: 10 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
27th [May] Capt [Francis] Brown Our Lieuts Sailing Mastr My self Mr [Isaac] George & the Gunr & two of the People sent on Shore to Be Sent to Prison; we were Escorted to the Fountain Tavern there to be Examined before a Justice of the peace & Capt Brown After Passing the First Examination had the good fortune to make his Escape; the rest after Examination Were all (Except one who was...
Date: 27 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
State of Massachusetts Bay
Plymouth ss.
At the Superior Court of Judicature Court of Assize and General Goal Delivery begun & held at Plymouth within and for the County of Plymouth on the third Tuesday of May (being the 20th day of said Month) Anno Domini 1777. —
Isaac Jones for himself & others Claimants Appellants vs Adam Babcock Libellant Appellee from the Judgment & Decree of a...
Date: 20 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Octa 15 [1775]. Went to Kingston to se Capt [Daniel] Adams, who promis'd to have his Vessell down to Plymouth, at 5, oClock. ー
Date: 15 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
16: [October] Waited on Wm Watson Esqr one of the Committee wth the letter, ー Who engages to Supply the Provisions, & take Charg of any Prizes that may be sent in here. ー Waited on the Committee wth the Letter from Head Quarters Who engag'd to give their Assistance ー Examined the Guns here & find 4 of abt 3 or 3¼ [lb] Seven Swivels & one Wall Piece. ー Capt [Daniel] Adams tells me that...
Date: 16 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
May it Please Your Excellency
According to the Instructions recieved at Head Quarters, I went to Watertown, to Colo Warren, from thence proceeded for this town & Arriv'd on Saturday evening [October 14]; Capt Adams being out of town, I did not see him till yesterday Morning, when I went to Kingston where he was with his Vessell, he engagd to have her at Plymouth that evening which he...
Date: 17 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
18 [October, 1775] Waiting For the Genls Answer. Attended the Schooner most of the Day ー recd the Genls Answer, wth Mr Watsons instructions which I deliverd him ー
Date: 18 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2