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We the Subscribers all of Providence in the Colony of Rhode Island Merchants request your Honor to grant a Commission or Letters of Marque and Reprisal to Lewis Thomas Commander of the Sloop Snowbird of which we are Owners, She is burthened about Fifty-six Tons carries Four Swivel Guns, manned with Six Men and fitted with a suitable Quantity of Military Stores &c. Lewis Thomas is Captain and...
Date: 8 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Capt. [Peleg] Potter, from Cape Francois, informs, that Advice was received there from France before he sailed, that his Most Christian Majesty had, in peremptory Terms, signified to the Court of Great Britain his Disapprobation of sending foreign Troops to America.
Capt. [James] Westcot, from Martinico, advises, that the French have at that Island between 5 and 6000 Troops; that great Lenity is...
Date: 8 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sr As the Hurry of buisness Prevented My Senden to You for the Book You Promist To Lend me I Should Be Much Oblige to You If You Would Send It to Coln Tillinghast So that He Can send it to Me to Newport as I Shall Sail for Newport Tomorow, & In Complying With My Request You will Oblige [&c.].
Date: 11 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Meeting in being according to adjournment
Voted. That Eighty Pounds LMy be paid Mr Manly out of the Treasury to pay for Cordage &c ー
Voted. That six pounds be paid Mr Richd Marvin out of the Treasury for one Months Wages
Date: 12 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Meeting in being according to adjournment
Voted That the Ship Joiners be allowed five shillings LMy pDay from this Date. ー
Voted That Mr Paul Hathaway be appointed 3d Mate of One of the Ships provided he inlist 6 Seamen the men to be got in 10 days. ー
Voted That John Grannis be Capt George Stillman first Lieut and Barnabus Lothrop second Lieut of Marines on board the Ship Warren.
Date: 14 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Mr [Elisha] Warner comes down and Mr [Philip] Brown. I think it will be best for you to Order Mr [Benjamin] Dunn to act as Lieutenant in the Room of Mr [James] Josiah2 and for Mr Browne to Act as Master ー but think it will be prudent not to give a Commission or Warrant till we hear further from Mr Josiah ー for if he returns he must have his old birth. I am your Friend
Date: 17 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
To the Town Sergeant of the Town of Providence in the County of Providence.... Greeting
Whereas the General Assembly of said Colony have Erected a Court to try and condemn all Vessels that shall be found infesting the Sea Coasts of America and all Vessels belonging to any of the Inhabitants of Great Britain and brought into said Colony and have ordered that such Vessels shall be tried by a Jury...
Date: 17 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Interog. 1.
To whom did your Ship true Blue and her Cargo belong where was She laden and to what port was She bound when taken by the Cabbot? ー
Answr
the said Ship and Cargo, belonged to Messrs Salisbury's Merchants in Lancaster in old England. She was laden at Kingston in Jamaica, and from thence bound to said Port of Lancaster, Except 15 puncheons of Rum, and One Hogshead and Ten...
Date: 18 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I received your letter of the 17th Instant ー I had before given Capn. [John Paul] Jones of the Providence Orders to Sail for Newberry Port. Shall send Express to Newport immediately if she is not sail'd to proceed directly to Boston.
There being no coal to be had in this Government think it will be best to get what you can with you.
Please send a line to Capn. Jones of the Providence to Newberry...
Date: 18 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I have received Orders that you proceed to Boston in the room of Newberry Port ー You are to make all the dispatch there you can ー the Ships of War are drove out of that Bay and I believe that Port is the safest to Send in Prizes of any on the Continent ー I am Your Friend
Date: 18 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Herewith yon have the Muster Rolls as deliver'd to me of the Alfred, Columbus, Andrew Doria, Providence and Fly ー the Cabots Captn. [John Burroughs] Hopkins tells me he Sent to Mr James Reed Pay master a day or two before the Brig Sail'd and it will not be in his power to send any further Account till the Brig comes in ー
You also have a Copy of the Account Captn [Nicholas] Biddle give of his I...
Date: 19 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
The following Officers living in Philadelphia are recommended for Officers in the New Ships ー vizt
Onboard the Alfred
John Earle
for Lieutenants of the Ships at Philada
Thomas Vaughan
George House
Robert Sanders living in Maryland, for Lieutenant of a Ship there ー Francis Varell, Boatswain for one of the Ships in Philada
Onboard the Cabot
Richard Fordham
for Carpenters...
Date: 19 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Notice is hereby given, that on Thursday the 27th of June inst. at Nine o'Clock in the Forenoon, at Mr. Fenner's Wharff, in Providence, will be sold at public Vendue, to the highest Bidders, the Sloop called the Two Friends2 Burden about 40 Tons, with her Appurtenances and Cargo, consisting of Salt, Rum, Melasses, Sugar, &c. pursuant to a Decree of a Court of Justice held at...
Date: 19 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Voted. That a Captain of Marines shall lnlist forty good men a Lieutenant thirty three, a second Lieutenant Twenty seven before they be intitied to their Commis[si]ons
That Silas Devol (of Tivertown) be Appointed Captain of Marines to the Ship Providence
That Mr William Barron be appointed first Lieutenant of the Ship Providence
That James Sellers be second Lieutenant of the Ship Warren.
That...
Date: 20 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I receiv'd yours of the 24th May and through a Continual hurry found no Opportunity to answer it before ー I am greatly Oblig'd to you for the Intelligence you give me in it ー I have nothing New to acquaint you with save that the Brig Andrew Doria has taken two Transports with two hundred Men onboard, and I believe they are both retaken by the Men of War in coming in here ー We have lost twenty...
Date: 20 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Herewith I send a Letter directed to you from the Congress, should it reach you hope you will immediately take such Steps as you may be able to Satisfy the Congress with your Conduct ー Captn [Dudley] Saltonstall and myself are both ordered there to Account for our Conduct ー Shall take pleasure in your Company.
Must beg you to be exact in your State of the Ship and People onboard her, and as the...
Date: 20 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I have just Received Orders from Congress to Repair to Philadelphia immediately; and as I believe Captain Saltonstall & Capt Whipple are likewise Order'd to Philadelphia the Command of the Fleet devolves on you as oldest Officer ー Should be glad you take the most prudent Steps to Conduct the same in such Manner as will be most for the Publick good ー be carefue that you take no Steps with the...
Date: 20 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Wednesday last Capt. James Munro, of this Port, in a Letter of Marque Sloop, arrived here from Hispaniola. On the 7th Instant he retook two Sloops, loaded with Lumber, from Edentown, in North-Carolina, which had been taken by the Act[a]eon Frigate, and ordered to Antigua. Capt. Munro sent the Prizes to Hispaniola, and has brought home with him a Person taken on board one of them, who calls...
Date: 22 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Voted That Seth Chapin be second Lieutenant of Marines for the Ship Providence
That Twenty Barrels of Flour be deliver Charles Bowler to Bake into ship Bread.
Date: 24 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Your letter of the 14th of May respecting the cannon came to hand on the 17th. On the 18th Messrs. Levi Hollingsworth and Thomas Richardson came to this town with an order of Congress, for 20 of them to be transported to Philadelphia; and on the 20th I set out on my journey; and when I returned I found here a resolution of Congress that six only should be taken from this Colony, which have...
Date: 24 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5