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Among the Prisoners that I brought to this place were two belonging to Rhode Island or Connecticut — Ezekl Burrough's second Lieut of the Columbus & Jno Earl Master of the Alfred both having Continental Commissions propos'd to the Gentlemen of the Committee appointed by you to settle the Exchange of Prisoners (on my first Meeting at Water Town) to Exchange Lieut Burroughs for Lieut Edward...
Date: 26 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Gentlemen Since my last under the 15 Instant 2 I have been at Salem and have made a strict scrutiny into the affair of the Sloop James Capt Gillis late master and find that the owners of the privateer wch retook her 3 did not know she was fitted on account of the Continent, the letter which you supposed to be wrote by the Salem Committee to Eddington 4 was wrote...
Date: 26 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Mr [Jonathan Loring] Austin, retum'd to Town, waited on the Board, and Accepted of his appointment of Secretary. —
Resolv'd that Capt Eleazr Johnson purchase the Ship George at£ 1,000 — including her Cable or at £ 800 without 2 —
Resolv'd that the Secretary to this Board be allowed Ten pounds Lawfull Money P Month; he took the Oath of Office accordingly, wch is filed, agreable to Order...
Date: 26 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I am very sorry to be under the disagreable necessity of making a second complaint to you of the unjust conduct of one of your Privateers, but as this comes nearer to your door than my former information (if I am rightly inform'd of you being one of the owners) I shall do it with more freedom, & with greater expectations from necessity of your exerting every faculty, that may conduce to the...
Date: 26 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
1776 Novemr
Tuesday 26
Do [Block Island] N42d. — 25'E — 20 Leagues
at 2 AM Veer'd at 7 saw a Sail gave chase at 10 brot too an American Brigt loaded with Salt & Wine 2
Date: 26 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Manifest of the Cargo of the Sloop Mary, now at Anchor in the Port of New Haven & bound on a Voige to the Isle of Statia . . in the West-Indies — Burthen Sixty five Tons, — whereof Giles Mansfield is Master for this present Voige —
Vizt 12 Horses — 2,000. Staves . . 8,000 Whoops —
20 Bbsl. Pork & Beef —
(to mount 6 Guns —
Thirty Two men)
Hartford County ss.
Novr. 26th. 1776 —
Capt Giles...
Date: 26 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
The defence of Hudson's river being riot only absolutely necessary for the security of this State, but also for the defence of the United American States, and keeping up a communication between the eastern and southern States,
Resolved, That the committee heretofore appointed to obstruct the navigation of Hudson's river, or any three of them, be directed to report some form of a plan for...
Date: 26 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
The Perseus & the Galatea came in last Night having taken or retaken near 20 Prizes, off Bermuda.
Several of the Transports with Troops on board, going on the new Expedition, fell down the River, with the Asia, &c.
Date: 26 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Yesterday the ship Sam, lately commanded by Samuel Richardson, was sent into this port; she was taken on her passage from Barbados to Liverpool by the Continental sloop Independence, Capt. Young, was mounted with four guns, and had on board 20,000 dollars, two tons and a half of ivory, 100 bars of iron, &c. 1
Date: 26 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Notice is hereby given that a Court of Admiralty will be held at the Courthouse, in the city of Philadelphia, on Saturday, the 14th day of December next at ten o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, then and there to try the truth of the facts alledged in the bill of John Young, Esq; (who as well, &c.) against the armed ship or vessel called the Sam, burthen about 120 tons, with her tackle...
Date: 26 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
We have certain intelligence that a number of ships of the smallest Draught of water, sufficient to carry 10,000 Troops are now lying ready in the North River with Fascines on their sides. The Destination of this Float [sic fleet] is uncertain, some conjecture to land a body of Troops at South Amboy, which is very probable, if this City is the object with Mr Howe. others guess Virginia or South...
Date: 26 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
As I understand some of the Gondolas are nearly ready for which your Honorable Board has the Appointment of Officers — I would therefore beg leave to remind you of two Gentn who have been recommended to you by sundry Persons who are well acquainted with them — Their Names are Captn Bennett Mathews and John Stevenson of Harford County — Captn Mathews is well acquainted with the Sea & is a...
Date: 26 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Joshua Singleton is Recommended to his Excellency the Governor and the honble the Council as a proper Person to be appointed first Lieutenant of the Henry Galley in the room of Byrd Chamberlayne who is appointed first Lieut of the Brig Musquetto. —
Ordered that William Holt deliver unto Doctor William Carter Nine Ounces of Rhubarb, it being for so much lent by Doctr Carter for the use of the Navy...
Date: 26 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
You are to proceed with your Vessel immediately to Cumberland where you are to apply to Cornelius Dabney for a Cargo of Tobacco and Flour which you are to take on Board and secure in a proper manner for a Voyage to the West Indies. You are to make the best dispatch in your power and when loaded return down the River to the mouth of Queens Creek and apply to the Board for further orders
Date: 26 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Sir, The Commissioners of the Navy Board are in want of a number of Cambuses and Potts for the use of the Navy for which purpose they have inclos'd you a Memorandum, and wou'd be glad you wou'd have them made and sent down to Fredericksburg to the care of Mr James Hunter as soon as possible.
Mem.
20 Cambooses three feet in the clear from side to side each to be fix'd with two Pots one of...
Date: 26 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I have learned from the Royal Order Your Excellency transmitted, dated August 6, that the King has approved the answer I gave to the Governor of Louisiana, following his request to dispatch a War Frigate to the Mississippi River in order to maintain respect in those shores, and expressing His Majesty's will that amid the strict neutrality he enjoins be observed in the war of the English with...
Date: 26 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Your much [es]teeme[d] favour of the 5th of Septr came to hand yesterday. I have the pleasure to tell you I ar[r]i[ve]d here the 26th Ulto after an agreeable passage of forty Six days. I am of opinion a House settled here by a person who has good connexions in America would answer very well on the plan you prop[o ]se, 5 P Ct will pay all the losses in Vessels trading from this to the States since...
Date: 26 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I had the honor to receive your letter, dear Baron, in which you reported the capture by an American Privateer under the Perle of a Parliamentary vessel with two merchants from Dominique on board. This is a most heinous action: any power should be safe under the protection of our flag and the least hostility is an insult to it. Therefore, you will please to command all the New Englanders who are...
Date: 26 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Narrative of Mr. Lamont's Observations during the Time he was a Prisoner in Massachusetts-Bay, viz. from the 22d of September till the 27th of November last [1776]. Mr. Lamont commanded a Ship from Glasgow 2
Upon the 6th of November two continental men of war lay at Newport, Rhode-Island; the one carries 36, 12, and 18 pounders; the other 32, 9, and 12 pounders, nearly manned, with...
Date: 27 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I sent an Officer with my Orders to take up, and bring onboard the Fleet some deserters who Enlisted out of the Army, and receiv'd their Months pay — and he took up Seven at Warwick, and brought as far as the Fulling mill — where a number of the Inhabitants got together, and took the Men away from him — the names of the Men taken away are as follows —
John Joyce, John Allen, Benjamin Howard, Abel...
Date: 27 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7