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I am Informed by Two Persons that Made their Escape Last night About 8 oClock from the Ship that Lays now A Ground that She is the Dimond of Thirty Six Guns and Two hundred & Twenty Men Commanded by Capt [Charles] Fielding, and as they are Persons belongs To the Country & ha~e been In the service Untill Unfortunatly Taken and are Still Willing to Enter In our Ships to make An Attack upon...
Date: 2 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
I have the misfortune to Inform you that the Ship 2 which was aground yesterday, floated this morning at 3 oClock and fell down about 2 milesfrom the neck which was a great mortification as we were that Instant throughing up a brest work to play on her with our field Eighteen pounders, as we had done the Evening before which am Confident did her much Damage, had the Gallies Came Down...
Date: 3 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
This will be handed to you by Capt Ayers [John Ayres] with whom we have sent Prisoners, and it is to request of your Honor to provide a Cartel Vessel to convey them to the Commanding Officer of his Majesty's Ships at Newport, and in Case he should refuse to receive them, that you would give Orders for the Cartel to proceed with them to New York, to be exchanged for so many of our suffering...
Date: 6 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
your favor of the 26th Int I Recd with the Vote of the Council directing Me to take Charge of the Dimond,2 at which time she was drove up by the Gale of with [sic wind] & Ice almost high & dry —
have not been able to Get her off as yet hope I Shall this high Water have got the Guns, Powder &c &c out & Stor'd in Capt Mayhews Store which please to inform Mr Jno...
Date: 29 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
My Powers extend only t~ the exchange of Seamen and Persons taken at Sea, and should any mistakes happen in the exchange of Prisoners, I shall be always glad to rectify them, as I dare say you will be on your part — The two Persons whom you mention to have been exchanged for Soldiers, Lord Percy will settle with you the first opportunity. —
By the last exchange negociated with Capt Ayres there...
Date: 2 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
The Captain of the Amazon had leave to Negociate an Exchange of Prisoners on equal terms. — I have an Account of an Armed Schooner which was taken by the Amazon, but none of any Trading Schooner. — Mr Trumbull must have mistaken the matter for had Mr Andrew Palmer been Master of a Trader, he would have been exchanged with the others, because no Masters of Merchant Vessels are considered as having...
Date: 28 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Lieutenant D'Auvergne is charged with the delivery of a Number of American Prisoners, for whom you will please to give a Receipt and place them to our Credit ー
All the Prisoners which have been applied for, by you or Mr Hopkins have, I believe been released; I am inform'd that there are now some Petty Officers within your District that are detained Prisoners, the following are among the number...
Date: 14 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Your Letter of the 18th Febry was deliverd us about 10 days since by Captn Coffin in the Sloop Diamond, of wh we advised Mr [William] Ellery at Philada desiring he woud inform you of the Vessels safe Arrival. ー Two days after Captain Coffin's Arrival, when he was preparing the Vessel to load & her Ballast out, She was unluckily overset by a violent Squal of Wind & the Tide not answering...
Date: 21 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I herewith send you John Collins who has been Apprehended here, and Tried by a Court Martial for sundry Misdemeaners as will Appear by the Inclosed Judgment, the Two first Sentence's has been fully Comply'd with, and as Immagine him to be the same Person Advertised in the Providence Gazette for Stealing a Silver watch at the House of Thomas Bently, the property of Thomas Anderson, Clark of the...
Date: 26 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I came with Sir Peter Parker's commands to proceed as near to you as I could be admitted, to deliver twenty two, American Prisoners,2 to be credited upon the account current, A copy of which state: Sr Peter Parker would wish to have to compare the situation of the ballance with his own: I have brought a Letter to which I was desired to bring an answer, with some verbal messages for you...
Date: 7 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I have received your Letter with a List of Five Prisoners, Seamen, for whom I have given a Receipt to Lieutenant Baron [William Barron] and shall pass them to the General Account agreeable to your request I am Sir [&c.]
Date: 13 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I have fixt th Slop 2 fit for th Sees I was fierst to take flower for to Purchese Some meterials I was Disapinted of men at Nantucket & men is Not to be had under 25 or 26 Dollars I have Shipt A mate at Acoxsett but i have to Git men I can Not tell for theay are Afraid of the Capes of Vergeny I Set out for Bedford yesterday in hops for to find Some on the Rotle but mony is No...
Date: 31 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Sir: Your Favor of the 30th August and 2d Inst. are duly received; The Concurrence of the Committee in the Bermuda Voyage is very agreeable and I hope will prove a happy Earnest of its Success; Inclosed is a Letter to the Inhabitants of that Island of the tenor you have Suggested; but I shall depend upon Capt. [Abraham] Whipple's not making use of it, except in Case of real Necessity...
Date: 6 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I have between eight & nine hundred Sheep, in my possession which has been lately brought by our people, from New Shoreham, have endeavoured to put them from me to pasture, but can't prevail, to get any of them pastured in this Town, and as I am unable to pasture so great a Number of Sheep, Therefore by and with the advice of the principal Men of the Neighbourhood, have undertaken to send...
Date: 11 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Sir. Your Favours of the 9, 15, & 15. Inst. have been duly received: The Readiness of the Committee to cooperate with me in procuring the most authentick Intelligence & dispatching Captn [Abraham] Whipple for this Purpose, is peculiarly satisfactory, & I flatter myself will be attended not only with Success, but with the happiest Consequence to the publick Cause ー I should immediately...
Date: 18 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The Congress having received certain intelligence of the sailing of two north Country built Brigs of no force from England on the 11 of August last loaded with 6000 Stand of Arms and a large quantity of powder & other Stores for Quebec without a convoy: and it being of importance if possible to intercept them, I am directed by Congress to desire you with all possible expedition to dispatch...
Date: 5 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I laid that Part of your Honors Letter relative to the proposed Voyage and your first Letter upon the same Subject before the Comee of Secresy & I am instructed to acquaint you. That they approve of the Plan and in Behalf of the united Colonies agree to advance a sufficient Sum of continental Money to purchase sixty or eighty Tons of good Gun Powder as suits you best, to run the Risque of the...
Date: 5 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I am favourd with yours of the 10th & am sorry it has so happened that the proposed Scheme of Intercepting the Enemy's Ordnance Stores cannot have your Assistance. The Experience your Officers & Men have had by an earlier Attention to Sea Service would have made them very acceptable on the proposed Enterprize ー
The Fleet which sailed out of Boston a few Days ago & of which I apprized...
Date: 13 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Sir,ー Here, nothing material has happened since your departure. But it seems there is a party in Newport endeavoring to get the troops re-called off the island, for reasons, in my opinion, not sufficient only for the flattering promises of Capt. [James] Wallace. He promising to let the wood and ferry-boats pass as vessels, and not to rob them of any stock on that island, and that he will not fire...
Date: 19 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Inclosed I send you a Copy of my order to Mr Wilbour, who Lives on Rooms Farm on this Island, the reason for my takeing this method, was, that I found from Experance that many Supplys were brot from the Farm to his House in Town, and then caried abord the Ships
have Sent Similar Orders to Slochom that Lives on Andrew Olivers Farm in Tivertown and Pearce that Lives on Tom Hutcherson Farm on...
Date: 21 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2