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Last Friday arrived a Brig laden with dry Goods, &c. bound from Bourdeaux, in France, for Newbury; was taken by His Majesty's Ship Grayhound and sent in here.1
The rebel privateer brig, brought in here by the Milford, was mentioned in our last, is the same that engaged the Glasgow last Summer. She is called the Cabbot; fights 16 six pounders on one deck, and had 182 men on board,...
Date: 22 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Last Monday arrived at a safe Port, a large Ship, from France, with the following Cargo, viz. 58 Pieces of Brass Cannon, Cloathing for 10,000 Men, Tents for ditto; 10 Tons Powder, Lead, Brass, and a Quantity of Blankets. A Colonel, and 24 Officers of Artillery came Passengers in the above Ship.1
Arrived on Tuesday, at Port, a Prize Brig, taken by Capt. Robert Parker,2 her...
Date: 24 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Last Wednesday [April 23] arrived the armed Ship Albany, from a Cruize and brought in a Brig from Salem bound to the French West-India Islands, laden with Fish and Lumber, commanded by one Atkins, of Boston.1
Date: 29 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
By J. Grafton, Jun. On Thursday, Fifteenth Instant, At Ten o'Clock A.M. Will be sold by Public Auction, On the Long-Wharf, Salem, The good Ship Royal Charlotte, 300 Tons burthen, sails uncommonly Fast, exceedingly well found, and will be sold with her Tackle, Apparel and Furniture, as she now lays.
Also, on the same Day, at Eleven o'Clock, A. M. Will be sold, at the Wharf of Richard Derby, Esq;...
Date: 8 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
We learn from New-York, that all American prisoners, taken on the high seas, are confined on board a separate guard-ship in that harbour, in order to be sent to England, to be tried as pirates, agreeable to an act of parliament for that purpose, which passed the royal tyrant of Britain and his bloody ministry, the 17th of February last.
Deserted from the Alfred Ship of War, now in this Harbour, a...
Date: 15 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Sales by Auction.
To be Sold by Public Auction, On Tuesday 3d of June next, at William Greenleaf's Office, in Cornhill, Boston. The Prize Brig Ann, of about 150 Tons, Bermudia built, a prime Sailer, and well found. ー She lays in the Town-Dock ー Her Cargo consists of some Flour, Bread, Horse Beans, Tripe, Vinegar, Painters Oil and Colours, small Casks of Lime, Hogshead Hoops and Heading.
Also,
The...
Date: 22 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
The armed Brig Diligent, Lieut. Edward Dod, commander, was lost on the Gannet Rocks in the Bay of Fundy on the 15th Instant, and her Officers and Men were only saved and taken up by the Transport Brig Berry, and carried into Annanpolis [Royal].
Date: 27 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Last Tuesday se'nnight [May 20], 18 Ships, 2 Schooners and 7 Sloops, having on board, 'tis said, 2000 Troops, left Rhode-Island, and stood up the Sound. Next Day they were seen passing Montauk, standing to the Southward.
Last Sunday se'nnight [May 18], 'a large Number of Men of War and Transports, with a Number of flat-bottom Boats, were seen off Huntingdon and Oyster Bay, ー In the Afternoon they...
Date: 29 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Notice is hereby given, That Libels are filed before me, against the following Vessels, their Cargoes and Appurtenances, viz. in Behalf of John Skimmer, Commander of and all concerned in the Continental armed Schooner Lee, against the sloop Betsey, of about 58 Tons burthen, Nat. Homek, late Master; in Behalf of Jonathan Harriden [Haraden], Com mander of the armed Brigantine Tyrannicide, in the...
Date: 5 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
On Sunday last, a person arrived in this town from Halifax, who left it the 29th of May, from whom we have collected the following authentic Advices, viz. — That a fleet of 35 sail of transports arrived in that harbour lately, from New-York, in pursuit of provisions, &c. under convoy of the pirate Frigate Tartar, of 28 guns; so destitute is Howe's army of every necessity of life — That 16...
Date: 19 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Last Sunday [June 22] arrived at Cape Ann, from Halifax, in Nova Scotia, 10 American Sailors, in a Whale-Boat, who made their Escape from the Lord-Stanley Prison-Ship in that Harbour, the 1st Instant. They were part of 75 American Prisoners, that were draughted from on board the said Prison-Ship, to help man the Rainbow, of 44 guns, the Milford, of 28; and the Cabot, of 16.
The pirate Ship of 64...
Date: 26 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Notice is hereby given, That Libels are filed before me, against the following Vessels, their Cargoes and Appurtenances, viz. in behalf of Azeriah Whittlesey, Commander of the private armed Brigantine called the Fanny, and all concerned in said Brigantine, against the Ship Caesar, of about 180 Tons burthen, Lucius Obrian, late Master; against the Brigantine Nancy, of 150 Tons burthen, John Taylor...
Date: 26 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Last week arrived at a safe port a Prize, which makes the eighth taken and the sixth sent in by Captain Fisk, in one of the State Vessels; she came from Topsham in England, was taken in seven days after sailing, her loading salt Provisions, and bound to Newfoundland: He also took another vessel from said Port, which he gave to the Prisoners about 60 in number.
Saturday last Captain Glover...
Date: 10 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Captain Prince [Job Prince, Jr.] in a Cartel Schooner, returned here last Tuesday, from Newport, with about 50 Prisoners, taken directly from on board a Prison Ship, in that Harbour, where they have been confined ever since they were first captured and carried in there. While the Prisoners of the Continent, have Liberty to patrole the Streets of America, like Ambassadors from some foreign...
Date: 17 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
All persons belonging to the Continental Frigate Boston, are desired to attend on board the said Ship, on Thursday the 18th Inst. where the Agents will be ready to pay them their Dividends of Prize Mony, arrising from the captured Brigantine Littleton.1
Wanted Immediately, A Number of Men, to serve as Guards on board the Prison Ships that are to take in the Prisoners coming in — Any...
Date: 11 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Notice is hereby given, That Libels are filed before me, against the following Vessels, their Cargoes and Appurtenances, viz. In Behalf of John Cluston, Commander of the armed Brigantine Freedom, in the Service of this State, and all concerned therein, against the Brigantine Peter and John.1 ofabout 140 Tons burthen, Charles McCall late Master:—In Behalf of John Fisk, Commander of...
Date: 2 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
Notice is hereby given, That Libels are filed before me, against the following Vessels, their Cargoes and Appurtenances, viz.—In Behalf of John Skimmer, Commander of the armed Schooner Lee, in the Service of the United States, and all concerned therein, against the Brig Industrious Bee, of about 150 Tons burthen, John Biddlecombe late Master: In Behalf of William Rogers, Commander of the armed...
Date: 9 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
Notice is hereby given, That Libels are filed against the following Vessels, their Cargoes and Appurtenances, viz.—In Behalf of John Kendrick, Commander of the armed Brigantine Fanny, and all concerned therein, and James Babson, Commander of the armed Brigantine General Mercer, and all concerned therein, against the Sloop Wolfe,1 of about 90 Tons burthen, William Marshall, late Master...
Date: 9 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
Notice is hereby given, That Libels are filed before me, against the following Vessels, their Cargoes and Appurtenances, viz.—In Behalf of Enoch Staples, Commander of the private armed Sloop Wooster,1 and all concerned therein, against the Snow Atlantic, of about 150 Tons burthen, Charles Morris, late Master: In Behalf of Thomas Thompson, and Elisha Hynman, Commanders of the...
Date: 23 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
...Early in the morning of the 23d, six of the enemy's ships warped through the lower row of Chevaux de frise opposite to Billings's Port, which was at first intended to have been defended by batteries, but afterwards rejected through the plan of defence, as being too extensive. The enemy had been some days busied in removing part of the Chiveaux-de-frize from this tier, in doing which, as it...
Date: 29 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10