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May 1778
Friday 8
Do [Cape Henlopen] NWBW 115 leagues
Light breezes, at 4 A:M: fresh breezes, close Reeft the topsails, Handed the Mizon do. at Noon Handed Main & fore Do. fresh Gales—
Do NWbW 104 Leagues
More Modte, at 2 Saw a Sail to the Wrd, Gave chace, at 5 came up with Do. She proved to be a Brig from N...
Date: 8 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
. . . There is several Merchants and Others here that would send Vessels and Cargoes your Way if you would underwrite them, and impower me to draw upon France in Case of Loss; if you think of doing this please let me know what the customary Premium is upon Spanish or french Vessels regularly cleared from here for the Windward Islands. I have the Honor [&c.]
Date: 8 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
1778 May
Friday 8
Do[St Bartholemew] W½So. 28 leags.
Thick Hazy weather with Rain. Fired several shot at the chace & at 3 AM brought her too, she proved to be the Schooner Elizabeth from Gaudaloupe bound to Boston Laden with Molasses, sent on board her a Midshipman & 4 Seamen. The Ceres in Company.1
Do SWBS. 18 leags....
Date: 8 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
1778 May
Friday 8th
Moored in St. Johns Road Antigua
First and middle parts light Airs and variable, at 8 AMd came in our Tartar Tender with a Maryland Sloop her Prize wth: 66 hhds of Tobacco.1 Cleared Hawse and loos’d Sails to dry.
Date: 8 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
Present,
Saml Ph’ps Savage Esqr
Isaac Phillips Esqr
John Brown Esqr
Eleazer Johnson Esqr
Thomas Walker Esqr
George Williams Esqr
Saml Ph'ps Savage Esqr Prest—
Order'd, That the Round House1 of the Brigt Tyrannicide2 be taken of[f]...
Date: 9 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
We the Subscribers Wm. Bentley Henry Oman, John Harwood John Newton Wm. Pitman Richard Thomas belonging to Newport have been very Great Sufferers by the Enemy, & been drove off from our Habitations, have now fix'd up a Boat in order to Catch Fish down at point Judah1 &c
Therefore Pray your Honors to grant us a Commission to make reprisals upon any Enemies...
Date: 9 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
May 1778
Saturday 9
Do. Cape [Cape Cod] SbE 6 or 7 Miles
at 7 A.M out all reefs—at 10 saw a Sail to the No.wd.—made Sail—gave Chase.
Do. Cape [Cape Cod] So. 17 Wt. 10 Leagues
Light Airs & clear Wr. PM still in Chase—at 3 hoisted out the Barge & sent her after the Chase—at 5 the Barge return'd—at 9 the Chase...
Date: 9 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
Capt. Whipple,1 in the Providence Frigate, who sailed from this Port last Week, in his Passage down the Bay was fired on by the Lark Frigate, which lay near Warwick-Neck, and had got under Way. Capt. Whipple returned the Compliment with a Broadside, and we since learn killed 3 and wounded 17 of the Lark's Crew; her Hull and Rigging were likewise much damaged. The Juno Frigate, the...
Date: 9 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
May 1778
Saturday 9th
Riding at Single Anchor off Robinson's Hole in Buzzard's Bay. [Mass.]
at 9 AM weigh'd & came to Sail.
Working thro' Buzzard's Bay.
Fresh Breezes and fair Wr. at 4 PM bore up for Quick's Hole, at 5 came too in 5 fms. veer'd away & moor'd ½ Cable each Way, at 6 recd. Information of the Rebels attempt[in]g to land &...
Date: 9 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
May 1778
Satureday 9th
Remarks at, Lees River [Mass.] 1778
This 24 Hours wind at NW, fine pleasant Weather Brought too John Anthony. in a Small Sloop bound to Howlands Ferry,1 pass sign by Jos Cole Capt2 came, to Sail & Ran Down, to Howlands Ferry Recd. on Board, one Barrell Flour, from, Mr. Childs3 came to Sail again...
Date: 9 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
The transports from the Elisabeth Islands arrived last night in the Seconnet passage.1 The troops have been very successful, and met with no opposition. The two transports have brought 884 Sheep and Lambs.—150 of them were bought from such of the Inhabitants as were well affected, and willing to sell them. The rest, being the property of noted Rebels, were taken without payment. The...
Date: 9 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
May 1778
Saturdy 9th
In Delaware River Wr.
Do Wr. [Modt. & fair] At 2 PM Weigh'd & ran lower down ye Galleys & Troops past by at 3 weigh'd & turn'd down at 6 the Sloop Galley came aground Do ran back to Cover her.1
Date: 9 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
By this Conveyance you will receive a Duplicate of my Letter No: 57,1 sent in the Hyde Packet, which sailed to proceed down the River the 24th: past.
I am by this Opportunity to return a more explicit Answer to the Contents of your secret Dispatch of the 7th: of January;2 Regarding the Establishment of a Naval Yard at either of the three...
Date: 9 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
Extract of a Letter from the Viscount Howe To Captain Griffith Commanding a Detachment of His Majesty's Ships at Rhode Island dated the 9th. May 1778.
“Advice having been lately received that Monsr. de la Mothe Piquet1 with a Squadron consisting of several Ships of War put to Sea from France towards the End of last February to escort a Number of large Ships laden...
Date: 9 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
Yesterday morning the Enemy came up the River with five armed Vessells, & between twenty & thirty flat bottom'd Boats—they landed at Bordentown & burnt two of Mr Bordens1 Houses, the two Frigates,2 & a great number of other Vessells that were lodged in the different Creeks—they then proceeded up the River, to the lower end of Biles Island, where...
Date: 9 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
The Committee on the Treasury brought in a report; Whereupon,
Ordered, That 20,000 dollars be advanced to the Marine Committee, for the use of the navy board in the middle district; the said Committee to be accountable.
That 24,000 dollars be advanced to the Committee of Commerce, to be by them paid to Mons. de Francey, for the use of the house of Messrs. Roderique Hortales & Co. and to be...
Date: 9 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
A Proclamation
Whereas Congress have received information and complaints “that violences have been done by American armed vessels to neutral nations, in seizing ships belonging to their subjects and under their colours and in making captures of those of the enemy whilst under the protection of neutral coasts contrary to the usage and custom of nations": To the end that such unjustifiable and...
Date: 9 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
We have received yours of the 6th. 9th. 15th. 20th & 22d April last under the signature of Mr Warren and now sit down to give them an answer.1 The loss of the Columbus altho' considerable yet by the prudence of your Board in taking out her Cannon & Stores before she left Providence, is much less than it would...
Date: 9 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
Yesterday His Excellency Sir Henry Clinton, K.B. arrived here from New-York.
Since our last a fleet of transports, from New-York with forage, and another from Corke, with troops and provisions have arrived in this port.
A sloop belonging to Messrs. Moore and Neal of New-York, who left that port with the fleet, got aground on Cape Henlopen, and became a prey to the rebels.1
Date: 9 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
May 1778
Saturday 9
Do [Cape Henlopen] NWbW 104 leagues
at 5 AM Saw Do. Ship to the Sard, gave chace at ½ past 8 came up with Her she proved to be from Do. place [No Carolina] with do. cargo [Tobacco],1 took possession of them.2 & Made Sail. Prizes in company.
Do [Cape Henlopen] NWbW½W 121...
Date: 9 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12