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You are hereby directed to receive all such Dispatches as shall be sent to You from His Excellency Sir William Howe, as also all such as you will receive from me, for the Lord Viscount Howe; and proceed with all convenient expedition in the Armed Sloop under your Command to Rhode Island, and follow his Lordships Orders for your further proceedings.—
As the Dispatches with which...
Date: 5 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
. . . As to Cloathing I have heretofore represented to your Excellency that it's Manufacture within the State always was and still is inconsiderable. We lost many of our small Stocks of Sheep by the British Plunderers, and the last Year's Crop of Flax failed very generally. Fortune threw some Cloths in our way lately that will be sufficient for more than our Battalion Consists of at present, if...
Date: 5 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Your letter of Jany 16th I duly recd. by the hand of Mr Jas. Davidson—Comdr. Hazelwood does not think proper to furnish the Men you are pleased to Mention therefore the same cause still subsists as ever as done since the Calling out of the Militia and that prevents these Works being carried into execution and I do not see any...
Date: 5 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
February 1778
Thursday 5
[Back River Point SWBS]
AM, read the Burial Service & Committed the body to the Deep weighd & came to Sail as did the Solebay at noon Cherry Pt. WNW 3 Leagues
Cherry Pt. WNW 3 Leagues
Modt. & Hazy PM at 1 Saw 2 Sail to the SW, at 3 weighd & gave Chace at 5 made the Solebays Sigl. to chace one of...
Date: 5 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
It being certified to me that Capt: Roberts in the Schooner [blank] and Capt: Hutchins in the Schooner Race Horse, both from Bermuda, with Salt, on the faith and credit of the Resolutions of Congress—have disposed of their Cargoes for Corn and Pork, which they have now ready to Ship and return to their Island.
They are both small and will not carry more than 120 or 130 barrels of pork. I find a...
Date: 5 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Navy Board Feby. 1778—
Ordered that the Clerk of the Board1 do go on board Each of the Vessels in the Service of the State now fitting out on an Expedition, and take an Exact List of all the Men on board, belonging to Each Vessel, that the purser of Each Vessel be directed to send an Exact List of all the provission Supplied by the Commissary2 for the Cruize, and...
Date: 5 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Mui sor. mio y de mi maor Venerazon. Acabo de tener noticias ciertas de la entrada en el Lago1 de una Balandra Guarda costa de S. M. B. montada de 4 canones 12 pedreros y 25 à 30 hombres,2 y para que en un todo, pueda yo caminar arra alado à la voluntad de VE, le vengo tenga à bien remitirme las ordenes por el escrito de lo que devo executar...
Date: 5 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
February 1778
Thursday 5
Abrest of the Keys off Port Royal [Jamaica]
at 10 AM Port Royal Harbour bore NNW distant 4 or 5 Leagues at 11 fired a Gun and made a Signal for a pilot bore away for port Royal Running down for Port Royal
Running down for Port Royal
Fresh Breezes and fair Wr at ½ past 12 Saluted Vice Admiral Gayton with 13 Guns and at 1 Came to in Port Royal Harbr....
Date: 5 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Feby 1778
Thursday 5th
Moored in Old Road St Christophers Town bore NNW
Eastermost Fort ESE ½ S Brimstone Hill NW ½ W
at 5 AMd weigh'd and came to sail, at 9 Pass'd thro' ye Road of St. Eustatia found that the Rattle Snake Privateer1 had sailed the night before. Steered towards St. Martins.—
St....
Date: 5 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
February 1778
Friday 6
Do: [Nantucket South Shoal] S 78º W dist: 28 Leags.
AM Do: Wr: [fresh breezes & clear] sounded in 34, 35, 37 & 39 fms: fine brown sand & black Specks, at 10 saw a Sail in the NE Qr: gave Chace to Do:
Do: [Nantucket South Shoal] S 71º W dist: 32 Leagues.
PM modt: and...
Date: 6 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
1778 [Feb.] 6
A heavy Snow Storm from N by E which drove ashore several Vessels—
Date: 6 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
In the House of Representatives. On the Petition of Simeon Samson and Jonathan Harraden.
Resolved, That the Prayer of the Petition be granted and that after the present Cruizes are out, all Commanders of Armed Vessels in the service of this State be allowed Eight Shares of all Prizes and Prize Goods which shall be Captured by them.
In Council Read and Concurred.
Consented to by Fifteen of the...
Date: 6 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Lord Howe has made but few changes in the disposition of the Ships in the Bay since his arrival. The Somerset lies in the Naraganset passage, in place of the Renown. The Nonsuch lies above Gould Island, between Cononicut1 and Prudence.2 The Lark off Greenwich;3 the [blank] above Dyer's Island; the Flora above Popasquash;4 and The Mermaid in the Seconnet...
Date: 6 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
At a meeting of the Governor and Council of Safety held in Lebanon the 6th day of February, 1778.
. . . Voted, To draw on the Committee of Pay-Table in favour of Capt. James Day of the ship Oliver Cromwell for £120, to be improved in inlisting men for said ship; to be in account. Order dd Feby 5th, 1778. . . .
Voted and resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be advised...
Date: 6 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Feby. 1778
Friday 6th
Ditto [Sandy Hook] NWbN 201 Miles
AM at 7 Wore Ship; at 8 out 2nd & 3rd Reefs Topsls: at 10 Unbent the main Topsl: & Bent a New One;—
Ditto NW ½ W 207 Miles
Modt: & fair Wr: PM at 5 Squally with rain in 3rd Reefs Topsls: at 6 Bent the Main Sail, at 8 Modt...
Date: 6 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Ordered. That the western shore Treasurer pay to Richard Clark one hundred pounds one Shilling and six pence on Acct. for work done to the Galley Independence and the further Sum of twenty three pounds twelve shillings and six pence for work done to the Galley Conqueror ⅌ two Accts. passed—
Date: 6 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
. . . P. S. My Servant is returned from Leeds [town with letters]1 from Congress. Inspector General Loyeauté2 informs me that a Gentleman just from Charles Town tells him that a french man of war of 74 guns had engaged and beaten an English Frigate that had taken a French merchant man bound to Charles Town and that the M. of War afterwards convoyed the merchant Ship into...
Date: 6 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
I Rote you some days ago by Mr. Waire since that I have Viewd. The Boat & think has avery fine one but am afraid we shall be a good while In fitting out as hands are Scarc & this draught has made Most of the young Carpenters Run off1 Tho am in hopes we Shall Launch in 4 or 5 weeks—The Man of war2 at presant Block up the road that there is hardly...
Date: 6 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Febry. 1778
Friday 6
Do. [St. Bartholomew] Bore W & BS Distce. 3 or 4 Leagues
at 3 A.M in Second Reeft Topsls. at 7 Saw a sail to the Northward at ½ past 9 Fired several 6 pound Shott at the Chace at 10 Brought too the Chace prov'd to be the Sally Sloop of 6 Guns & 8 Swivels with 17 Men a Letter of Marque Belonging to Egg Harb...
Date: 6 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
I Should according to my Promise have wrote you from Windham, but finding Colo. Trumbull1 to be better than had been Represented, also that he had himself wrote you, thought it Needless, on my Arrival here found Colo. Sargent2 was gone for Salem I wrote him, as you desired, to have your Part of the Prize in the Origional Effects—But whether thro hurry,...
Date: 7 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11