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Mr Joseph Brown, and Mr Moses Brown of this Place, principal Merchants, and Gentlemen of Distinction and Probity, will wait upon you with this Letter ー Their Brother Mr. John Brown of this Town Merchant, was two Days ago forcibly taken at Newport in a Packet, as he was coming from thence with a Quantity of Flour, which he had purchased there. He was carried on Board a Ship of War and confined,...
Date: 28 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The alarming situation of public affairs in this country, & the late unfortunate transactions in the Province of the Massatts Bay, have induced the General Assembly of this Colony, now sitting in this place to appoint a Committee of their body to wait upon your Excellency to desire me, in their name to write to you relative to these very interesting mattersー
The inhabitants of this Colony are...
Date: 28 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Dear Sir In great haste I wrote you but a very few lines by [Edward] Chappell this day in Answer to all your letters, wch I beg you will Excuse, for our City has been in Such Tumult & confusion ever since Sunday last that Scarcely any Business has been done, and every day we have had People Marching booth day & Night through the Streets with Arms & they are Exercising &...
Date: 28 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
. . . was our troubles settled I would not make the least doubt of our getting business Enough. but troubles sams to Come Heavyer for the troops & people in N. England have had an Engagement in which we think the troops are worsted the best acct we have yet here I now Inclose you but have not mentiond it to any person on yr side but yr self.2 how matters will now end God knows. but...
Date: 28 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
You must not be angry with me for (at this Time) being apparently negligent in my Intelligence to Lord Dartmouth, for it is impossible to give any positive Intelligence or Information on Affairs here. We are at this Time, as You will judge by the inclosed, in a State of thorough Confusion. I had set apart Wednesday, Yesterday, and this Day (Friday) for writing fully on the Affairs of this Country...
Date: 28 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
By some Gentlemen who came passengers with Captain Miller, we learn . . . That Lord William Campbell is appointed Governour of South Carolina, and was at Portsmouth ready to sail for his government.
The Mary, Miller, from London, and Tom, Clark, from Liverpool, are arrived in York river; the Jenny, Welch, Molly, Collins, and Sparling, Priestman, from Liverpool, at Norfolk.
His Majesty's ship...
Date: 28 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
This day sailed . . . for the West Indies, the Portland and the Pomona men of war.
Date: 28 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Three corvettes are being commissioned for a foreign destination. I suppose that two of them will be used along the coast of Africa according to what Myd. Rochford told me. Order has just been given recently at Portsmouth to place the crew of a frigate being laid up on board a guard ship in order to help fit out the ship Romney destined for Newfoundland and according to the rumor there, the crews...
Date: 28 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I this minut have an opertunity to Informe you of the State of our affairs at the Eastward that we are all Stantch for Countery Except three men and one of them is Deserted the other two is in Iorns ー as for the vessels which attemtd to Carrey Stuff to our enemies are stopt and I am about to move about Two hundred of white pine masts and other stuff got for our Enemies use Sir having heard of...
Date: 29 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I am just this moment informed that you are interrupted in your occupation by the misled people of the Place where you are; I therefore think it incumbent on me as a Servant under the Crown, to warn those Infatuated people of the Consequences that will issue from the detaining, or interfering with you, or any other of his Majesties Loyal subjects in their lawful avocations, & I do by the same...
Date: 29 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Honorable Sirs For some Months past we have persevered in our Duty notwithstanding many Threats, & Insults from the Lawless Sons of Violence but lately being well assured of a concerted Plan to confine us and then to lay at their Mercy, it behoved us with other Friends to the British Constitution to take refuge onboard His Majesty's Ship Canceaux on the 24th Instant, where we continued till...
Date: 29 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Since writg the preceedg. a Vessel is arrived from Totola by whom recd the Inclos'd letter from Cap Roberts of the Ship Lucretia, who is gone to Jamaicaー
The Master of the Vessel (arrived here) tels me Capt Roberts inform'd him Grino had got a freight at Antigua. I have again talk'd with Cap. Turner, he sais Bettenham sold for £4.10/ ー at Grenviel Bay ー wch is equal to £5.0/ ー at St Georges in...
Date: 29 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The President having received a Letter from Messrs. Nicholas Brown and Joseph Brown, dated Providence, April 27, 1775, desiring that the Congress would observe secrecy in respect to the capture of their brother, John Brown, at Newport, on the 26th instant: And also another from the Honourable Stephen Hopkins, Esquire, dated Providence, April 27th, 1775, presented the same to this Congress; which...
Date: 29 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I transmit you herewith a circumstantial account of an unhappy affair that happened in this Province on the 19th Instant, between His Majesty's Troops, and the people of the country, whereby you will see the pitch their Leaders have worked them up to, even to commit hostilities upon the King's Troops when an opportunity offered2 ー It has long been said that this was their plan, and so...
Date: 29 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On Wednesday last [April 26], as two of our Packet-Boats were returning from Newport, without about 300 Barrels of Flour, the Property of Mr. John Brown, Merchant of this Place, (who was on board one of them) they were taken into Custody by the Men of war stationed there, ー and one of the Packets, with Mr. Brown on board, and 200 Barrels of Flour, we hear has since been sent to Boston.
The Troops...
Date: 29 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
IN the Name of GOD, Amen John Tillinghast of Providence Marriner2 as well as in his own Name, as for and in the Name and Names of all and every other Person or Persons to whom the same doth, may or shall appertain, in Part or in all, doth make Assurance, and causeth himself, and them, and every of them, to be insured, lost or not lost, the Sum of Six Hundred dollars on the Body, tackel...
Date: 29 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
It is impossible fully to describe the agitated State of the Town since last Sunday, when the News first arrived of the Skirmish between Concord and Boston. ー At all corners People inquisitive for News ー Tales of all Kinds invented believed, denied, discredited . . . 2 Sloops laden by [John] Watts for Boston with Provisions unladen. In that Night the City Armory open the Powder taken out of the...
Date: 29 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
May it please your Honours, We the Committee of Correspondance of the Several Towns in sd County beg leave to Represent to your Honours the Circumstances of this County in this day of Strugel & Danger ー in the first place we confess our Towns have in general heretofore been negligent in providing Arms and Amunition according to Law, until distress came upon us, from our Mother Country &...
Date: 30 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
You have desired me to state the number of cannon, &c. at Ticonderoga.I have certain information that there are at Ticonderoga eighty pieces of heavy cannon, twenty brass guns, from four to eighteen pounders, and ten to twelve large mortars. At Skenesborough, on the South-Bay, there are three or four brass Cannon. The Fort is in a ruinous condition, and has not more than fifty men at the most...
Date: 30 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Capt [Benedict] Arnold Captain of a Company from Connecticut attended & Reports, that there are at Ticondarogo 80 peices heavy Cannon, 20 ps. Brass Cannon from 4 to 18 pounders, 10 or a doz. Mortars at Sckenesborough on the South Bay 3 or 4 ps. Brass Cannon. the Fort in a ruinous condition suppose has about 40 or 45 Men a number of Small Arms and considerable Stores ー A Sloop on the Lake of...
Date: 30 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1