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Sir, As I understand all the Letters sent by the last Post for the Navy & Army were intercepted, have sent you herewith a duplicate of my last of the 23d. Instant.
The Major part of the People here are almost in a State of Rebellion, they have broke open the City Hall, and distributed the City Arms to the Mob, were it not for the Assistance I have given the Transports, make not the least...
Date: 26 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We wish matters ware onct settled between G.B. & these Collenys but from the last accts we se[e] little prospect. No doubt if the difference Subsists much longer but what the Collonies will suffer severely. but at the same time we think England will feel it much more, as here the real Necessarys of life for the poor will come much lower than in England & if the Collonys should hold out...
Date: 26 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We have just recievd a letter from the Officers of the independant Company of Spotsylvania which I have herewith inclos'd;2 I immediately call'd together this Company and had the vote put whether they would march to Williamsburgh for the purposes mentioned in that letter which was carried unanimously.
I have nothing more to add but that We are well assured you may depend on them either...
Date: 26 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I came into this place through Roxbury last evening & find great numbers of troops or rather armed men in much more confusion than I expected, but perhaps with as little as possible in this disordered state of the Massachusetts; most of the soldiers here are inhabitants of this Province who are now enlisting in a regular manner ー General [Artemus] Ward is at Roxbury ー Genl [Israel] Putnam is...
Date: 27 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Resolved, That Captain [John] Derby be directed and he hereby is directed, to make for Dublin, or any good port in Ireland, and from thence to cross to Scotland or England, and hasten to London. This direction is, that so he may escape all cruisers that may be found in the chops of the Channel to stop the communicating of the Provincial Intelligence to the Agent.2
Ordered, That Colonel...
Date: 27 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir I have received your Letters April 22d and 24th The Vessels laden with Provisions and Naval Stores I could wish might come to Boston, but in doing this we must not (I find) use Compulsion, but endeavour (by making it their Interest) to entice them to supply us. I therefore desire that you will make it publick, that all Vessels who shall bring to Boston for sale live Cattle, Sheep, Hogs,...
Date: 27 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
As there is great Reason to expect the Rebels will continue to prevent all kinds of Provisions being brought to Boston in order to distress not only the friends of Government, but the Kings Forces; And as we have no Resources but in the Provinces of Nova Scotia and Canada, I have written to Governor [Francis] Legge desiring his Assistance on this Exigency and I also intreat your Excellency to...
Date: 27 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Yesterday Mr. John Brown, one of the principal Merchants of this Town, being at Newport, as an Agent for this Colony, appointed by the General Assembly to purchase Provisions, for the Use of this and your Government, was seized upon in a Freight or Packet Boat coming to Providence. He was carried and confined on Board a Man of War lying in Newport; and about 300 Barrels of Flour, in that Packet...
Date: 27 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
April 1775
Thursday 27
Moor'd in Rhode Island Harbour
P M sent the Sloop Abigal to Boston2
Date: 27 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
This day at noon sailed the two Provid[enc]e packets seized yesterday, and in one of them Mr. Jno Brown is carried off for Boston, whither also they have sent the flour.
Date: 27 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Yesterday, Capt. [James] Wallis [Wallace] of His Majesty's Ship Rose, stationed in this Harbor, stopped a small Sloop, bound to Providence with a Quantity of Flour, consigned to Mr John Brown, Merchant in that Town, who was a Passenger on board said Sloop, with a regular Sufferance from the Custom House for the Flour; notwithstanding which, Capt. Wallis detained Mr Brown on board His Majesty's...
Date: 27 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I receivd yours thanking me for my endeavours for the Release of your Brother from on board the Man of Warr, When I heard of his Detention tho' I had no very great intimacy with Capt [James] Wallace The thoughts of his Family & their Distressd Situation cou'd not but move every Person of the least Humanity & on seeing him the Sympathising Tear trickled on my Cheek. I was from four oClock...
Date: 27 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Whereas the Continental Congress did resolve in the following words, viz: "And we further agree and associate, that we will have no trade, commerce, dealings, or intercourse, whatever with any colony or province in North America which shall not accede to, or which shall hereafter violate this Association, &c."2
And whereas the Parliament of Great-Britain, in pursuance of their plan...
Date: 27 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Committee having just now received Intelligence that the Magazine of powder at Williamsburgh had been seized on Thursday the 20th Instant in the night by Captn. [Henry] Collins commander of one of his Majestys Sloops of War and by the Governors directions was deposited on Board his Vessell, thought it adviseable to forward this Information to the Committee of Philadelphia which was...
Date: 27 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
In compliance with your request we give you a candid Relation of the Disturbance which happend last Week in this City about the removal of the Powder from the Public Magazine. Early on Friday morning [April 21] the Inhabitants were universally and much alarmed at the Report that the Powder had been removed the preceding Night under an Escort of Marines and carried on board an Armed Vessel at...
Date: 27 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Gentlemen, The General Committee thinking it of the highest Importance that the Committees in the interior Parts of the Colony, and that, through them, the People at large, should from Time to Time be informed of all such Affairs and Transactions as have any Relation to the American Cause; they have for the Management of so necessary a Service nominated a Committee of Intelligence.
We are very...
Date: 27 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On the 8th of March Bill passed the House of Commons, restraining the Provinces of Massachusetts Bay, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, from fishing on the Banks of Newfoundland; and from exporting to any Part of the World, but to "Great-Britain, or some of the British Islands in the West Indies." Thus, as these four Provinces have by the American Association contracted not to export...
Date: 27 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Your fav. of 24th Inst I recd duly, & observe the Contents ー The late unhappy Event, has put by all business for the present. Your order to Charter or purchase a Vessel is Impractacable here ー Therefore decline an attempt ー A Vessel cou'd not be man'd, with the greatest assurances for the seamans safety from an impress, nor is it possible to procure a Master & men for the purpose of...
Date: 28 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Whereas a worthy Friend to the Liberties of America, Mr John Brown of Providence hath been lately seized, & with two other persons carried on board a British Ship of War at Newport.
Ordered, That Samuel Murray & such officers of Gen [Thomas] Gages Army as are now prisoners of War & not disabled from travelling on account of their Wounds be immediately sent under a Sufficient guard to...
Date: 28 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
It [is] with the deepest Concern that We find Mr [John] Browne, that devoted Friend to the Cause of America, betrayed into the Hands of our common Enemies & every Measure for his Release that can be pursued by us shall most earnestly be adopted
We have ordered Samuel Murray son of the Mandamus Counceller & such officers of General [Thomas] Gages Army as are prisoners of War & not...
Date: 28 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1