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Please to acquaint my Lords Comm[issioners] of the Admiralty, that on the 21st Instt A.M. I Sailed from [the] Road, in Company with His Majesty's Sloop Pomona, wh[ose Com]mander I have Ordered to accompany me to Antigu[a] pursuant to their Lordships directions. The 22d the Wi[nd came] to the So Wt & blowes strong, with heavy squalls of Rain [Th]erefore put into Torbay, and Anchored, 'till the...
Date: 24 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Esteem'd Friends Reynell & Coates2 My last to you, was of the 27th Ultimo p[er] Capt. [Samuel] Nowell, which suppose you have received, since which your much esteem'd of the 23 Ultimo has come to hand, with Bill of Loading of the particular Iron I wanted, & for which am much obliged. I imagine in this,you will be advis'd of our unhappy Sistuation in this Province, by which you...
Date: 25 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Last Wednesday, the 19th of April, the Troops of His Britannick Majesty commenced Hostilities upon the People of this Province, attended with Circumstances of Cruelty not less brutal than what our venerable Ancestors received from the vilest Savages of the Wilderness. The Particulars relative to this interesting Event, by which we are involved in all the Horrors of a civil War, we have...
Date: 25 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Resolved, That Colonel [Nathaniel] Freemen, of Sandwich, be directed to take such a number of Men as may be sufficient for the purpose, and secure the Whale and such other Boats at Cape Cod, as may be of use to this Colony.
Date: 25 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A Letter from Salem [was] read, setting forth the expediency to the Depositions we are now taking to be forwarded as fast as possible, the same [was] ordered to be sent to the Committee for that purpose at Lexington, immediately.
Date: 25 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
By Samuel Graves Esqr Vice Admiral of the Blue &ca &ca
Permit Mr Samuel Pepper Master of the Schr Polly to carry out of this Place his Wife and three Children with their bedding and other Necessaries; taking up this Pass and returning it On board the Flag
Dated On board his Majesty's Ship Preston at Boston the 25th of April 1775
Date: 25 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I am Informed of Numbers of the Inhabitants getting out of Town, with Passes Signed by you, two of which I have seen. As it is of the greatest Consequence tey should be kept in till the whole have leave to retire, and that it is regulated for the friends of Government to come in without Molestation, I am to beg the favour of you to grant no more passes for the present, without a Cirtificate of...
Date: 25 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
In answer to your Excellency's Letter of this Evening I have the Honor to acquaint You that a few passes have been granted by me to some known friends to Government, And to an inconsiderable number of transient people & fishing Vessels; but I shall very readily comply with your Excellency's desire not to permit any more to leave the Town, but such as produce to me Your Excellency's...
Date: 25 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
There are now two ships of war lying off here, the Captains of which threaten to fire on the town if a man goes out to the assistance of our most unhappy brethern at Boston.
Date: 25 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Gov. [Samuel] Ward yesterday wrote a letter to Messrs. Malbones received today: advising the Merchants to get their Vessels to sea or out of New England with all speed: and recommending to the people at Newport to remove themselves and Effects speedily, as there was certain Danger of Immediate Seizure, in Consequence of Measures adopting by the Assembly. This has thrown the Town into great...
Date: 25 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Agreable to your Desire I have Sent up Eighty Three Barrels of Powder to Colo Jed. Huntington2 Containg about 108 Each the Remainder is in this Town I hourly Expect Thirty Two Barrels more that I have Account of the Capt having it on bord the Remainder of what Moneys was in My hands Capt [William] Packwood left with Capt Jno M'Shibbin who is in One of my Vessels in the West Indies...
Date: 25 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Bearer in the Sloop Macaronia has on Board fifty One Hogsheads and Eleven Terses of Mollasses and four hogsheads of Cocoa which Despose of for my Accot and hope Y oul Save the Duty's in the Cocoa I have Drawn on you in favour of James Tilley for One Hundred & Eighty Pounds York Currancy & in Favour of Thomas Allen for Eighty Pounds York Currancy pay Twenty Days. I want Five Hundred wt...
Date: 25 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Yesterday arrived his Majesty's ship Portland, Admiral [James] Young, from Portsmouth for Antigua; and the Pomona sloop of war from ditto.
Date: 25 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
April 1775
Wednesday 26th
A M Fired a 9 Pounder shotted & brought too a Snow from Wednesdy 26th the West Indies, Impressed 4 men from her.
Date: 26 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On the twenty-fourth of April it was resolved that the inhabitants of Chelsea and Malden be, and hereby are absolutely forbidden to fire upon or otherwise injure any Seamen belonging to the Navy, under the command of Admiral [Samuel] Graves, unless fired upon by them, until the said inhabitants of Chelsea and Malden receive orders from this Committee, or the General of the Provincial Forces, so...
Date: 26 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Ordered, That the Letter drawn by the Committee to send to Doctor [Benjamin] Franklin, as Agent, be copied and authenticated by the President pro tempore.
The Depositions taken by the Committee for that purpose, laid on the table, and ordered to be read.
Ordered, That the Committee make duplicates of the same, and Captain [Josiah] Stone, Jonas Dix, Esq; Colonel [John] Tyng, Colonel [Nathaniel]...
Date: 26 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
From the entire Confidence we Repose in your faithfulness and Abilities, we consider it the happiness of this Colony, that the important trust of Agency for it, in this day of unequalled Distress, is devolved on your hands, and we doubt not, your Attachment to the Cause and liberties of Mankind, will make every possible Exertion in our behalf, a Pleasure to you; altho' our circumstances will...
Date: 26 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Admiral having ordered a Boat with Fire Grapnels from the Somerset, Boyne and Glasgow, to be on board your Sloop by half after seven o'Clock this Evening, I have his Commands to acquaint you therewith and to signify his Direction that you do dispose of the said Boats during the Night in the most effectual manner to prevent any Attempts of the Rebels either to destroy the Kings Ships, or to...
Date: 26 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Two Vessels full of Passengers sailed this morning for Philadelphia.2 The Town in great Panic ー The Assembly proceed with Vigor, tho the Upper House hesitate ー The Tories elated ー Great Dejection on most countenances ー but some revive their spirits. this afternoon the two Providence Packets loaded with 4 or 500 Bbs. flour here to-day, sailed for Providence, but were immediately stopt...
Date: 26 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
April 1775
Wedsdy 26
26 Moor'd in Rhode Island Harbour
Light breezes and Calm, PM Spoke a Schooner from No Carolina with Tarr Seiz'd the Sloops Diana, and Abigal with 300 Barrels of flour bound to Providence for the Rebel Army, sent an Officer and 10 Men on board the Diana2
Date: 26 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1