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You are desired to send to Charlestown Neck about 20 men to take the five Boats that lye there & carry them up Mistick river, to Monotomy, or such Other place as you Judge will be safe from the Men of War's Boats, assistance will be ready to help launch them tomorrow morning at nine o'Clock
N.B. You must send oars.
[Endorsed] In Committee of Safety [Ordered] that Richd Devers be directed to...
Date: 30 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Communication between this and the other Colonies being entirely stopt by Land, I think it of the greatest Consequence to the King's Service that Some Small vessels Should be got ready to carry Dispatches between this and New York and at times to Piscataqua
Date: 30 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Whereas in the present Rebellious State of this Country it is extremely difficult to procure fresh Meat even for the sick of his Majs Squadron under my Command, and whereas I am informed there is a great quantity of Cattl upon Elizabeth Islands near Falmouth in this Province, which it is absolutely necessary to prevent being carried to the Main; You are hereby required and directed with all...
Date: 30 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Notwithstanding my Orders to you of this Morning you are hereby required and directed to proceed as fast as possible to Martha's Vineyard in his Majs Sloop under your Command, where you will find the Ship Champion, Paddock Master, laden with Flour and Wheat; You are to seize the said Ship and send her immediately to Boston under the Command of an Officer from the Falcon, and then proceed to Eliza...
Date: 30 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I wrote you already by this Conveyance of the brig Mary Carrol for Cork & yrs port Loaded with wheat & flour2 Since then have Recvd yrs by Norwood Yesterday,3 Kenne[d]y also arrivd here Yasterday4 & I believe shall get a Good freight for him, G[eorge] D[arley] has Rubed me a little about not being more particular about Vessells that are Loading here to...
Date: 30 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I wrote you the 26 Inst since then have Recvd yrs by [John] Norwood who arrived yasterday & shall answer them soon2 [Alexander] Kennedy also Arrived Yesterday3 & I think shall get him a freight for England as I cannot Complete the orders for him from [John] Wright.4 I observe what you say about my not Giving G[eorge] S[almon] proper Information. & am...
Date: 30 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
By the Schooner Rochester Capn Elliott you will receive four Thousand five hundred bushels Indian Corn as P Bill of loading inclosed, which doubt not you will dispose of on the best terms you can for my Interest, the Nett proceed thereof you will please to remitt by the first opportunity to Messrs John Norton & Son's in London. I shall write to those Gentlemen to make Insurances &...
Date: 30 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Gentlemen ー one Captain Davis from the Southward came to Inform of a large Number of Whaling Boats now at Falmouth in the County of Barnstable and Nantucket that are Halled up which may be easily got here if wanted. The people that Way are afraid they will be taken from them by the Tenders the Messenger could not wait on you but desired I would inform you relative to this Matter any Orders...
Date: 1 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I am desired to acquaint you that Mr Samuel Allen (by the desire of the principal part of the Inhabitants of this Place) is sent to you to know the Minds of the Provincial Congress, whether it is most proper at this Time for the Merchants in this Place to send their Vessels and Provisions to sea or not, your early proposing the same to that Respectable Body will much oblige your most humble...
Date: 1 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I have received your Letter of the 27th April, in regard to Mr [John] Brown of Providence; the Vessel he is in, is not yet come round, but I have already spoken to the Admiral; and expect on Mr Browns Arrival, he will be dismissed as I dont as [sic! at] present, see any reason for his detention.
I am with great Regard &ca
Date: 1 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
You are hereby required and directed to put to Sea in his Majs Ship under your Command with all convenient dispatch and proceeding forthwith to New York, you are to anchor if possible before the City.
On your Arrival you are to consult with his Majesty's Lieutt Governor of that Province in what manner you can best assist, by the means of the Kings Ship you command, towards supporting the legal...
Date: 1 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir We the Subscribers Inhabitants of the Town of Newport in the Colony of Rhode Island deeply impressed with a grateful Sense of the Support You have on all occasions given to His Majesty's faithful Subjects residing in this Town, and fully convinced that our Peace and Security has for some time past been owing in a great measure to your Attention to His Majesty's Service and spirited Conduct...
Date: 1 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Last Wednesday [April 26], as Mr. John Brown, of Providence, merchant, was going from this town to Providence, in one of the Packets, the Packet was stopped, by order of Captain [James] Wallace, of the ship Rose, and Mr. Brown taken on board the ship Swan; soon after which another packet was stopped as she was going up. These Packets had on board a quantity of flour, which Mr. Brown had purchased...
Date: 1 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Last Eveng I was told that the Officers of the two Men o' War here had by them a List of 27 Persons in Newport whom they intended to take up; and that I myself was in the Listー
Date: 1 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
By two gentlemen from Newport we have certain intelligence that Mr. John Brown, Merchant of Providence, was employ'd by the General Assembly to procure provisions for the use of the troops now raising in that colony ー That on Tuesday last [April 25], he went to Newport, where he purchased a quantity of beef, pork and flour, some of which he shipp'd on board two of their packets for Providence, in...
Date: 1 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Unanimously Voted by Said Committee that at this Alarming and Critical Scituation of affairs in America, the need and Necessity in all probibility we shall have of what Molasses we now have in the Colony, we therefore think it expedient that none of that Comodity be Transported to any other Colony; and we do advise that no person send any from This Town for the above Reasonー
We do also Advise for...
Date: 1 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir The People of this Colony are taking up Arms in all Parts of it, and every Species of Violence is threatned to be executed upon me, unless I restore some Gunpowder which I though it my duty to remove from a Magazine in this Town to Onboard the Fowey.
I have reason to believe that the Show which I have made of defending myself by Arming the Persons of my Family and the Assistance given me by...
Date: 1 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
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Sir./ The Inhabitants of most of the Counties of this Colony are in Commotion, and a Body of two Thousand Men are now Actually preparing to March to the Assault of my House, defended only by my self and the Persons belonging to my Family, the Occasion of which Insurrection is no greater than my having Conveyed from the Magazine in this Town the Powder which was therein (and which I...
Date: 1 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Lord The series of dangerous measures pursued by the People of this Colony against Government, which they have now entirely overturned, & particularly their having come to a Resolution of raising a Body of armed Men in all the Counties, made me think it prudent to remove some Gunpowder which was in a Magazine in this place, where it lay exposed to any attempt that might be made to seize...
Date: 1 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
To Henry Mowat Esqr Captain of His Majesty's Ship Canceaux. The Memorial of Us the Subscribers, for themselves and many other faithful Subjects in the County of Cumberland
Sheweth That since the Arrival of His Majesty's Ship under your Command, we have been relieved by your Spirited Conduct from those Anxieties natural to Persons who are abnoxious to the Enemies of our happy Constitution; and by...
Date: 2 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1