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February 1778
Sunday 15
The Seal Island N 34.42 Et. 29 [Lgs.]
at 9 AM saw a Sail SSW, made Sail and gave Chace, at noon 17 fath. water; still in Chace. The Venus not in Sight.
The Shoal on St. G[eorges] Bank WbS 3 Lgs.
Fresh breezes and thick dirty Wr. at 1 PM fired a Shot at the Chace and brought [her] too, a French Ship, called La Felicite,1...
Date: 15 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
This Morning att 6 AM began to heave a head att 8 do Got Under Way and Proceeded to Marblehead for Some of my Offercers & men att 2 PM Came to Anchor after firing Several Signal Guns att 4 PM Sent my Large Boat on board a Coaster and furnishd the Ship with three Cords of wood So Ends this day
Date: 15 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
1778 [Feb.] 15
Sailed with a WSW wind, & put in to Marblehead at 2 pm—
Date: 15 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Your favour of the 24th. of December has come safe to hand by Captn. Perkins.1 Colo. Trumbull2 had also favour'd me with yours to him Pr. the Same Conveyance, also yours Pr. post December 12th.. . .Am Verry glad you Prevail'd on Captn. Sargent3 to Sail at last, he has arriv'd Safe though his Cargo...
Date: 15 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
. . . A Mr Putnam formerly as he says in our Navy,1 & dress'd in blue, & Buff, or white, Uniform, has been more than once in this Camp; acknowledes also his having been in Philadelphia, this, with many suspicious circumstances collected in the examination of him, Induces the Genl. as we hear he lodges in the House where you do, or are often, to desire that...
Date: 15 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
I sailed from Rhode Island in the Bristol the 15th. of last Month—the 5th. instant I called off English Harbour, and by Desire of Vice Admiral Young went in There that Evening, and proceeded the Morning following with the Nottingham Ordnance Ship,1 and the Eliza a Ship in Ballast, which brought out Naval Stores for the Squadron at Antigua—I arrived with Them Here...
Date: 15 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Feby 1778
Sunday 15
Standing off & on in Guave Bay1
at 10 AM Saw a Ship under Engs. Colours under the Isl: of Roan2 Standing to the NWd.
Isl. Roan East 4 Legs:
Fresh Breezes & Clear at 10 PM Saw a Ship to the Eastd. bearing down3 ½ past hawld her wind to the Nord. Spoke the Pelican...
Date: 15 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
this Morning the wind being NE and blowing Quick I waid my Anchor and Dropt farther up the harbour Very full of Rain I then Seeing no Probability of going to Sea give two midshipman two matts1 and my Pusser2 Liberty to go on Shore att 2 AM3 the wind Got Round to Northward I desired Preparation to be made for geting Under way fired Several guns to bring my...
Date: 16 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
1778 [Feb.] 16
We had great Difficulty in getting under way—At 7 pm in passing halfway Rock, a distance of 5 or 6 miles from the Harbour, Mr. Barron1 the 1st. Ship's Lieutenant fell overboard, & by catching hold of the Flukes of the Anchor, which he was trying to fish—was haply caught & got on board—Course ESE—
Date: 16 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Another Storm for our Mortification—the Wind at N.E. and the Snow So thick that the Captain1 thinks he cannot go to Sea. Our Excursion to this Place, was unfortunate, because it is almost impossible, to keep the Men on Board—Mothers, Wives, Sisters come on bord, and beg for Leave for their Sons, Husbands, and Brothers to go on Shore for one Hour &c So that it is hard for their...
Date: 16 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Your favour of the 15the. Ultimo reach'd me last Evg in wch you acknowledge Sir Patrick Houstons Rect. for 300 Dollars. & that you have noted it accordingly. I wrote under the 4th. Instant acquainting you with Orders I had Recd from the Marine Board1 respecting the Nanny. I am sorry they happen to thwart You in that Vesell as she is a...
Date: 16 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Order'd That materials be immediately provided for building equipping & arming a Frigate to carry 20 nine pounders. Also for a Briga. to carry 16. six pounders with a long quarter Deck1
Date: 16 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Feby. 1778
Monday 16th.
Do. [Att Single Anchor off Pine Hill.]1
AM. Cleand between Decks Ventr working.
Do. [Att Single Anchor off Pine Hill.]
The first pt. fresh breezes & hazy with Snow, the midle. & Lattr pts. fresh breezes with sharp frosty weather. PM att ½ p...
Date: 16 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
. . . as the warren a thirty six Gun frigate lay in providance harbour & had never been to sea it was proposed to Sail her through the British fleet that lay at Newport & fetch her into Boston Harbour & one Capt Peck1 undertoock the Voyage, he sails out in the month of february One Very Dark Knight with wind & tide Down providance river I was then walking the...
Date: 16 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Sir Incloasd is mr Cahoon1 letter who was prizemaster of ye Brig George which I first took & was retaken in boston Bay last June and was caried to hallefax2 and been in prisen Ever Sence he came in ye Ship3 that Got in to marblehead that ye priseners retook. that peic of Sheloone4 I will Send you by ye...
Date: 16 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
The last Accounts from his Majesty's Ship the Liverpool,1 are, That she lays at a Place called Old Rockaway; at low Water, she is dry as far as her Fore Chains, and there is 11 feet astern: Her Rudder is knocked off, and 'tis thought she will not be lost. . . .
Friday arrived here the Lee Sloop,2 Capt. James Lowe, loaded with Staves, Flour, and Tobacco; she was cut out of Morris's...
Date: 16 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
The1 first Commr. informd ye Board that he had wrote & ordered the Clerk to deliver Instructions to Capts. Hall,2 Sullivan,3 Morgan4 & Anthony,5 & their warrant officers respectively,— which the Board approved.
Ordered that the Clerk of the Board6 do Enquire of Mr. Isaac D...
Date: 16 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
. . .The British Cruizers having done much Damage on our Coast, it was determined, about the 17th. of December. to fit out some armed Vessels, to act in Concert with the Randolph & Notre Dame, against them_In order to man those Vessells, & prevent the Enemy's obtaining Intelligence, our Ports were shut, till this Squadron sailed_The Preparation's for the Expedition, (like all...
Date: 16 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
. . . I mentioned to you in a former letter1 that we had laid an embargo & were fitting out a Small Fleet, our little Squadron, went out I think last Friday,2 consisting of the Randolph, Notre Dame, & three other Vessels3—Steering Southwardley, next day two Ennemy's Frigates were in Sight again,4 from which we conclude they had not seen them,...
Date: 16 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Feby 1778
Monday 16
Isl. Roan East1 4 Legs:
at 6 AM She Bore up under Engs. Colours, let fly her Top Gt. Sheets fired a Gun & hawl'd her Wind to the Nord. at 10 Carryed away the Main Top Gt. Mast, find the Chace to Out Sail us, at 11 Pelican Wore to the Nord. Do. Stood after her Suppose the...
Date: 16 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11