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The General Assembly of this State have ordered that the House at present made use of as an Hospital be immediately cleard. I have at present under my care upwards of twenty Sick men [be]longing to the Fleet. I know not what to do with them without some further order. I should think it would be best to take up some suitable building to lodge them in, and furnish it with such utensils as...
Date: 4 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Reports from above that Mr. Carlton has retired back to the North End of the Lake, and from below that the Provincials have gained Advantages last Monday & Tuesday in several Skirmishes near White plains .... When [David] Waterbury was inlarged after the Action on the Lake Carlton told him Burgoyne was sick at Montreal -Perhaps this Event and the Season were the Cause of his being recalled...
Date: 4 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Last Sunday Morning (October 27) was ushered in with a violent Cannonade from the Forts Constitution1 and Washington, against the Repulse and Pearl Frigates, who had advanced somewhat higher towards the Rebel Quarters, They fired near a hundred Shot; but providentially did no other Damage than qreaking one Man's Leg by a Splinter on board the Repulse. The Frigates, having answered the...
Date: 4 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
The appointment you propose to make of the small Cruizers does not appear to be capable of more correctness for the present purpose. As the Rose will be in your Neighborhood when you move Westward, the Carysford may remain off of Hungerford for a protection to the small Cruizers, for a few days longer. But I believe I shall soon have occasion to employ Capt [Robert] Fanshaw in another manner. His...
Date: 4 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Novr 76
Monday 4
Moord in New York River —
Captn Anthony Hunt superceeded me I being appointed to Command His Majestys Ship Rose.
Date: 4 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
November 1776
Saturday 2d
Sandy Hook N67: W Distce 82 Leags
(AM) Unbent the Foresail and Foretop mst Staysl being torn and bent new Ones.
Fresh Gales and Squally.
Sunday 3d
(AM) gave Chace to a Sail in the SW Quarter.
Fresh breezes and Cloudy.
at 9 (PM) left off Chace.
Monday 4th
At 6 (AM) chaced to the Et ward. at 9 came up with do which proved a Ship from Boston for Hispaniola -...
Date: 4 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
It being represented that some of the marines in the barracks are sick,
Resolved, That Doctr Rush be desired to take them under his care, and see them properly provided for.
Date: 4 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Commodore [Thomas] Seymour informed the Board that the Commanders of the Continental Vessels, the Wasp and the Fly, had received and detained divers Men belonging to the Armed Boats of this State, and declare their Intentions of receiving and detaining as many more of the said men as they shall be able to obtain; therefore,
Resolved, That Commodore Seymour be directed to apply to the Board of War...
Date: 4 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
A Compleat List of the Officers and Men on Board the Ship Defence
Capt Geo Cook Commander
[Baltimore]
Henry Auchenlick
1st Lieutt
James Hogan
ditto
John Burnell
2d Lieutt
Joseph Walpole
ditto
James Cordery
Master
James Gifford
ditto
John Hall
Mate
James Allen
ditto
Nathaniel Cooper
2d Mate
William Portis
ditto
Levin Langrel
3d Mate
Collin Brown
ditto
Peter...
Date: 4 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Agreeable to the requisition of your Honble Board, We Examined, into the state and Condition of the Vessells drifted on Shore, or made Captures of from Lord Dunmores Fleet, and are of Opinion that of the following Vessells lying at Kitts Point (to wit)
1 very large Pilot Boat
1 Schooner of about 1400 Bush[el]s Burthen
1 Sloop of about 2000 Bushs do wth some Rigging
The Sloop only in condition to...
Date: 4 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Resolved that Edward Ross Master of the Sloop three Friends lately arrived in James River frorn Curracoa be permitted to dispose of the remainder of his Cargo consisting of thirty Cases of Gin and one hundred and ten peices of Striped Linnen and that he be allowed to trade in this Commonwealth to the amount of his Cargo consisting of the aforementioned Articles and of fifteen hundred Bushells of...
Date: 4 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Ordered that Mr Benjamin Powell deliver unto Capt Wright Westcott Two hundred two shilling Nails and one bag of Spanish Brown 2 for the use of the Sloop . Scorpion
Ordered that Robert Anderson deliver unto Capt Wright Westcott six Gallons of Linseed Oil for the use of the Sloop Scorpion
Ordered that the keeper of the Public Store deliver unto Capt Wright Westcott one Compass, one Spie Glass, four...
Date: 4 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Lieutenant Browne is order'd by this Board to repair with the Marines he has on board the Congress Sloop immediately to join his Company under Capt Ellison which you are to permit to accordingly, the Arms belonging to these 'Marines you are to keep on board 'till your return to York. By order of the Navy Board [&c.]
Date: 4 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
The Court was opened and the Marshal returned an Appraisement and Account of Sales of the Sloop Vulcan & Cargo together with an Account of the Charges attending both Trials which are ordered to be Recorded and of which Copies are hereunto annexed2
Date: 4 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
4th Nover. 1776—
Captn. Thomas Pickering
The Commissioners of the Navy having received Intelligence that a Ship & Sloop belonging to the subjects of Great Britain are Loading at St Marys River which is guarded by two small Vessels from St Augustine You are without delay to proceed off the Port of Sunbury in Georgia where if no Pilot Boat should be off & the weather will permit send your...
Date: 4 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Novemr [1776]
Monday 4
Et end Tortuga SbE. 5 or 6 Ls
11 [A.M.] Gave Chace to two Sail to the Eastward ½ past TKd Ship
Do Wr [Fresh Breeze and cloudy] PM 1 Set studing Sails, ½ past Fired two Guns and brot to a Brig from Nantuket Bound to Cape Nichola2 took out the Master. Sent a Mate and 10 Men to take Charge of her. Sent the Prize in Chace of a Sloop in Shore. Fired a Gun and brot...
Date: 4 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
At a Council holden at Halifax
on the 5th November 1776
Intelligence having been received that an Expedition is now forming in New England by raising an Army for the Invasion of this Province, and that for that purpose, Magazines of Provisions were already forming: -It was considered and Advised that Application be made to Sir George Collier Commander of the King's Ships in this Harbour, that he...
Date: 5 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
In consequence of Intelligence having been received of an Army raising in New England, with intention of invading this Province by Land, and that Magazines of Provisions were now forming for that end: It was this day consider'd in Council, and agreed that application be made to you; requesting that you would Order such of His Majesty's Ships or Armed Vessels, as shall be most fitt for the purpose...
Date: 5 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Dear Alderman Halifax, Nov. 5, 1776
As so many of his majesty's transports have scandalously given themselves up
to the rebel pirates, in justice to Capt. Edward Carey, commander of his Maj
esty's hired transport Newcastle Jane, as well as Capt. Murdock M'Lean, who com
manded 20 soldiers on board, I have the satisfaction to tell you, and you will oblige
me if you will inform Mess. Coppingers, of...
Date: 5 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Last Thursday was brought in here, by Capt. Robert Parker, in the M'Clary Privateer (fitted out of this port) 1 the ship Hero, Charles Harford, Master, with 500 hogsheads rum, bound from Jamaica to Quebec, but not being able to get up the river, bore away for New York, was taken in Lat. 43.00 Long. 70.00.
On Friday arrived the Prize Snow Three Friends, Thomas Russell master, from St....
Date: 5 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7