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I have the pleasure to acquaint the honbe Board that our Warlike fleet sailed yesterday after a Detention of ten days by contrary winds they consist of two Ships of Eighteen Guns each, two Brigs of twelve & fourteen Guns, three Schooners, a Sloop besides our two Frigates ー & were joyned by two other Brigs from Salem & Marblehead. I am Jealous the Enemy have heard of their being near...
Date: 22 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I am without any of your late favrs I Last Evg Recd a Ltr from Mr [Robert] Morris he Says tge Esther was Chased a Shore Near the Capes Virginia and he hopes the loss wont be great as the Cargo and Materials are sav'd and will sell high.2 he is much pleas'd with the purchase of the Active pray by next post send me the Cost & outfit as he is desireous to have it Speedily please to...
Date: 5 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
. . . its difficult going out or in our harbour at present as theirs three ships constantly Cruising in the Bay one of them a fifty or Sixty Gun Ship, the Hessian transport2 arriv'd at Towns end to the Eastward and Landed the prisoners there, they appear truely happy in their present Situation, and their greatest fears were after they were taken that of being retaken — We have heard...
Date: 12 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Your post going off before his usual time prevented your hearing from me last week, Agreeable to your request I now send you the valuation of the fifty Rifles and the other Musquets. I agree in Sentiment with you as to the price of the Duck, tho'gh had not several pieces been much damgd eight pounds (even at that time) would have been very low as Duck Sold about that time by the Single piece at...
Date: 18 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
In Obedience to your orders I now transmit the Roll of the Ship Hancock, with the Boston, they are true Copys, as from the Originals left with Mr Cushing — I also inclose the Account of Sales of Ship Esther, Alexander, & Active,I am not furnish'd with the Sales of the Mellish yet, when it comes to hand I shall immediately forward it, I have the pleasure to acquaint you that the Frigates have...
Date: 19 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Your several favours under the 16th, 21st & 23d I but this hour at 11 O Clock Receiv'd tho' I was twice at the Lodgings of the post early in the morning to enquire after Letters but he was out, the list of names is gone forward for Capt [John Paul] Jones to sign, its fate I shall soon know, I return them by post I am pleas'd to hear the providence has 25 Barrells provission on board, as its...
Date: 26 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Captain Hinman of the Alfred informed me some time ago he had receiv'd orders from the Honble Board to go out on a Cruise & to return here or to some near port to receive your orders which shou'd be left me the Alfred has been ready to Sail about a week only the Captain being disapointed in manning his Ship — the time being so nearly elaps'd he thought best to remain in port till this time ...
Date: 3 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
My duty lays me under the disagreeable Necessity of acquainting the Honble Board with the loss of the Brig Robert (late Lively) on her passage to South Carolina and sent into Rhode Island, I am glad there was no Cargo on board, and we have made some small saving by taking out a good New Cable of ten Inches full length — I could wish it was the only loss the publick have lately sustain'd from this...
Date: 10 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I have the honour to congratulate you on the Success of the Hancock & Boston Frigates, which have fallen in with, & taken the Fox a twenty Eight Gun ship — they fell in with a forty Gun ship a few days before they took the 28, and would certainly have carried her, had she not been reliev'd by a 60 Gun Ship; Capt Manley engaged the 40, three Glasses before the Boston could get to his...
Date: 14 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
previous to writing on Business suffer me to give you & my Country Joy, of our late Acquisition by sea, in a Capture of an 28 Gun frigate 'by the Hancock & Boston. she is called the Fox and has not been off the stocks Sixteen months, they engaged a forty Gun Ship a few days before, & would have carried her, had she not been resqued by a 64 wch came to her assistance, Manly lost seven...
Date: 14 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I had the honour to acquaint you under the 14th Instant of the Capture made by the Hancock & Boston, and that the latter was Arriv'd at Sheepscut, I confirm what I then wrote, tho we have no Letters from Capt McNeile, a report has prevail'd for some days past that the Fox was retaken and sent into Halifax, But I hope it is without foundation; we have nothing from Capt Manly since...
Date: 24 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Your much Esteemd favr I Recd by post, I find you did not enjoy the pleasing sensations that the Capturing the Fox occasiond so long as I did, for till last evg we in general thought she was not recaptured, I fully Join in Sentiment with you it had been prudent &Right in them to have come in with their Prize your reasons are the most Cogent for it, however its too late to mend, And as you...
Date: 24 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Capt James Holiday master of the Brig Necessity which you have in your possession it appears by the papers is Burmuda property and that she was bound to Falmouth and laid off the Harbour several days in hopes to be carried into Port. As he had given bonds at Burmuda to land his Cargo at a British Port the like Scheme was pursued last year by the same Vessell when she was Carried into Newbury, and...
Date: 8 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
. . . the Marine board2 is not organiz'd here, the marine department Suffers for want therof, the Boston has been arrivd About a Month — at an Eastern port, and is now coming up our harbour. I deplore the loss of the Hancock Frigate, Several of poor Manleys men have got here from hallifax I have reason to believe he has done honour to his Country. The Lee Capt Skimmer has been saild...
Date: 22 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Mr William Jasper being employed to make Surgeons Instruments for the Navy, Which he cant perform for the Want of Materials, he Applys for ten pounds Cast Steel, Six smooth files half round, Six half Round Bastards, four flat files of different Sizes.
I pray the honble Board wou'd be pleased to Order the above Articles may be deliver'd him he paying for them, and you will Oblige Honble sirs [...
Date: 22 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I am Sorry I'm Oblig'd to be thus troublesome to the Board, But I am Again Call'd upon by the Continena Agent for the New hampshire State, for the undermentiond Articles, for the use of the Ship Ranger, Which Colonel [Thomas] Crafts is Ready to furnish, Receiving an Order from the Honble Board for that purpose, pray your honours to Give the Necessary Orders [&c.]
Date: 25 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
This Accompanies the Ship Alfreds abstract with Copy of Capt Hinmans Acct of disbursements & mine of outfit she with the Raleigh are now at Sea and I hope will do something towards Supporting such an enormous Charge in fitting her out —
It has not been in my Power to procure a Suitable Vessell for a Cruizer as directed some time since by the honble Board. I am still on the Look out and shall...
Date: 1 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Yr favour P Post is before me am glad the Hambden has escaped the Enemy and got safe into your Port I wish she may send you in a good Prize soon after Sailing. You Ask how Conta prizes are to be sold it was desigrt'd by the [Massachusetts General] Court when they prohibited Vendues to Except Continental Property as it millitates with the resolves of Congress, but they rose in a hurry &...
Date: 4 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
These serve to inclose the Account of the Cost & Outfit of Ship Esther, with Cost of the Sugar, ship'd in her as I recd from Mr Jarvis. the Ship Mellish and Brig Tryton remain on hand, the latter with part of her Cargo — the other part I have now a Prospect of getting, as the Season of the Year wont Suffer the British Cruizers much longer to infest our Coast & harbours. I have Agreed for...
Date: 17 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Captain Jones of the Contina ship Ranger has Apply'd to me for two Reams of Cartridge paper, the ship is ready for the Sea & only waites the Arrival of a few Stores, wch I have Collected, But cant find any paper only in the Labratory, I pray Your honours to furnish me with an order on Colo. Crafts for that Quantity, I have the honr to be with due Respect [&c.]
Date: 17 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9