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May it please yr Honrs your Petitioner has schooner named Beggers Bennison about 136 ton, bound Demeray or the West Indies, of which Joseph Titcomb is Master — loaded with Boards fish Shooks hogshead and Hoops — which was ready for sea before the Embargo took place, your Petitioner therefore prays your Hons to give Liberty for sd Vessel to proceed on her sd Voyage — And your Petitioner will ever...
Date: 10 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
The Petition of Albert Salleron, an Inhabitant of the Island of Martinico, Humbly Sheweth, that in September Last he Arrived here with Sundry, useful! Articles, for Sale, Viz: 2700 lb Gun Powder, Some fire Arms, & Dry Goods which he has Disposed of, and with the Neat proceeds, thereof has purchased, a Brigantine Called the three adventurers and a Cargo of Lumber, with which he was about...
Date: 12 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
The Subscribers of Newburyport Merchants humbly beg leave to represent to your Honours, that a Ship owned by them, called the Montgomery, commanded by Joseph Rowe, had, before the present Embargo took place, sailed from hence bound to Bourdeaux in France, with part of her Loading (of which two Casks of Furs were shiped by the honble Board of War upon the Acct of this State) & with all her...
Date: 13 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
That your petr. arrived in Boston from Martinico in the Schooner "L'amiable felicite" having a french bottom & belonging to said Martini co — That he brot with him forty five hogsheads of Molasses twenty five Hogsheads & twenty five barrells of Sugar twenty seven barrells of Coffee thirteen barrells of Cocoa fifteen Cases of Liquor, twelve boxes of Soap, Nineteen Cases of Wine three...
Date: 16 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
The Memorial of Adam Babcock of New Haven in the State of Connecticut Merchant, in behalf of himself & the other Owners of the Privateer Briggantine Fanny mounting Fourteen Carriage Guns now lying at Dartmouth, within this State, humbly sheweth
That Your Honors Memorialist together with Thos Mumford Esquire of Groton, Wm Hart Esq. of Say Brook, Saml Brown Esq of Guilford, Mr Thos Hazard of...
Date: 17 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Your Pititioner being Desirous of importing Provisions into this State From Carolina and being Acquainted that Liberty may be granted by Your Honors for that Purpose beg the favour of Your Honors granting Permission for His Schooner Ranger, 60 toris burdn, Jeremiah Pearson Master to proceid from this Port Under Such Restriction as shall seem Meat, to Some of the united States of America for the...
Date: 18 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
We being of the Committee of Correspondence Safety &ca. for the Town of Ipswich do humbly Acquaint your honors that we are of the Opinion that it will be greatly for the benefit of said Town & the Towns Adjacent for the Scooner Rebekah to go her intended Voyage to one of the Carolina's as said Towns are in great Need of Rice and other Necessary's the produce thereof—therefore pray your...
Date: 19 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
That his Sloop Polly whereof Lemuel Jenkins is Master now lying in Dartmouth aforesaid is bound on a Voyage to South Carolina with forty Hogsheads of Rum and five Hogsheads of Sugar, and to return back with Rice and other Merchandize; And as a general Embargo is laid on Vessells they cannot Sail without leave from your Honors. Therefore
Your petitioner Humbly prays your Honors would be pleased to...
Date: 20 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
In complyance with an Order of Council of the 11th Instant, directed to this Committee, they have apprehended, and caused to be confined, all Masters Mariners and Seamen, taken on the High Seas, who have not entered into the Service of this or some of the united States and were Resident in this Town.
The Mariners and Seamen the Committee were under the disagreeable necessity of committing to the...
Date: 23 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
The Humble Petision of George Crowninshield of Salem Sheweth that He your Petisionor Had at the time of the imbargoes taking Plase A Shipp Called the Bachaler / William Gray Master Lying at Newbury Port All Loaded & Ready fitted for the Sea & was to Saile On the Aproach of the first fair wind from thence to the Westindies with A Cargoe of Lumber & thier to Dispose of the Same, to Some...
Date: 23 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Daniel Fox that he some time since arriv'd at Falmouth in Casco Bay in the Sloop called the St Croix Packet from the Island St Croix with a Cargo of Rum Sugar Salt Cloth Warlike Stores &c. — with a part of which Cargo he has procur'd a Cargo of Lumber & Fish for the Sloop Friendship, burthen about one hundred Tuns James Dilworth Master bound for St Croix, which Vessel was ready to sail...
Date: 23 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Edward Southouse Attorney General of the Province of Quebeck having sundry Goods and Effects on Board the British Cloathing Ship lately brought into Dartmouth and being advised by the Captain of the Alfred Ship of Warr to go down there to look after his said Goods takes the Liberty of requesting this Honourable Board to give him Leave to go to Dartmouth for the purposes aforesaid and to take a...
Date: 24 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Unto the Members of the Honble House of Representatives of the Province of Massachusets Bay in Council assembled at Boston,
The Petition of Thomas Roberts chief Mate, Robert Watson Carpenter, Sam Smith Steward, of the Ship Pecarry [Picary], Breholt Cleveland Commander from Tobago to London taken 29th Agt. 1776
As Also Nicholas Pundy chief Mate Thomas Moore Carpenter, Sam. Short Carpenters Mate,...
Date: 25 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
That your Petitioner, was taken on the Tenth day of November Last, in the Ship La Soye Planter, by the Brigantine Freedom John Clouston Commander, Belonging to this State, And that as your Petitioner has not heard any thing of his Late Ship's arrival at any of the Ports in this State, thinks that She may have been Retaken,2 And as he has no means of Subsistance here, Prays your Honours he may...
Date: 1 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
That he was master of the Brigantine Washington in the service of the United States: & had the Misfortune to be taken by a British Ship of War on the third day of December 1775. Since which he has suffered great Hardships haveing been sent to England & there Confined on Board a Man of War for five months,& then brought [to] Hallifax & Confined in Goal there five months longer,...
Date: 9 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
The Board of War having fitted out the Sloop Republic Allen Hallet Master, navigated with ten hands for the West Indies, mounting two 4 pd Cannon & ten Swivel Guns, & apprehending it may be of Service if the Master be fumish'd with a Commission for a Letter of Marque, do desire a Commission for him as such
By Order of the Board
Sam Phps Savage Prest
The Vessell will have 10 bbs...
Date: 16 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
When I wrote You last I was at Bristoll Waiting for the Signal, to be Made On Board the Emerald Frigate, for Me to pass for Road Island which Was, On Sunday Morning last. I directly Weighd Anchor, & Made Sail for the Emerald, who Put An officer On Board & then we Steerd for R. Island And Anchord, under the Commodores Stem, & I went On Shore, & waited On Sr Peter Parker, who...
Date: 17 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
I did apply last Monday Morning for an Order of your Honourable Board to Search a Certain Privateer call'd the Rising States — on board of which I had reason to think some of my Men were embark'd with an intention to desert the Publick Service —
The Order was Granted and a proper Officer appointd for that Service but before these could be Accomplished the Vessell Sail'd —
Your Honours thought...
Date: 30 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
We the Subscribers, Inhabitants of the Town of Dartmouth and others, having understood that your Honor's have given permission to the Captains of several Vessels brought into this port of Bedford to be exchanged and that they are to be sent to NewPort in the State of Rhode-Island for that purpose. We beg leave to ,represent to your Honors that the Harbours of Bedford and Fairhaven lay very much...
Date: 3 February 1776
Volume: Volume 7
That one of the prisiners Robt Key on board the said Bark John, robbed the prize of Sundry articles & attempted the Life of your petitioner, and endeavord to raise a Mutiny on board, and is a person very inimical to these States, & is now under Confinement — Your Memorialist therefore prays your Honors would give direction what shall be done with the said Robt Key — and as in duty bound...
Date: 5 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7