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July 1775
Sunday 13
Moor'd at New York
sent the Pinnace a Shore with a Sick Man, She was haul'd up on a Wharf & Stove, then Launched & set on Fire by a Mob of People in the Town.
Date: 13 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Alderman [David] Matthews and Alderman [George] Brewerton, applied to the committee and delivered a letter from Captain [George] VanDeput of His Majesty's ship Asia to Governor [William] Tryon, complaining that one of his boats is brought on shore and the crew detained prisoners; and the committee being informed that the boat's crew are prisoners in Gen. [David] Wooster's camp; and also, that His...
Date: 13 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Stephen Seaman and Obadiah Seaman attending at the door, were called in, and gave the committee such information, as affords great reason to suspect that George Youngs and his son, and Captain [John] Brush, and one [Cornelius] Conklin, all of Huntington, are concerned in shipping provisions to supply Gen. Gage's fleet and army Short notes of their examinations were taken and filed.
Thereupon a...
Date: 14 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
General [Philip] Schuyler having by his letter of the eleventh instant requested this Committee to appoint a proper person to command the Sloop [Enterprise] on Lake Champlain and send him up with all convenient speed, and Capt. Patrick Dennis being sent for to confer with on the subject, recommended Capt. James Smith for the above service.
Captain James Smith attended and expressed his great...
Date: 15 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Capt. William Stewart, of the Ship Mary, from Bristol, on his Passage . . . July 3d, in Lat. 39,3, Long. 68,43, spoke Capt. [Henry] Collins, in the Schooner Magdalen, with Lady Dunmore and Family on board from Virginia, bound Home.
Date: 17 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Relying on your discretion and prudence, I have to request your assistance in an affair that I imagine will require some dexterity to manage properly. I want to have a few articles out of the medicine store put on board Captain [George] Vandeput's Ship, to be sent here, if you think it can be done so as not to be observed. You must consult with Bowden about it, who has the care of them; and I...
Date: 18 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Mayor of the city of New-York attending in the next room, informed some of the members, that the magistrates had applied to a carpenter to build a boat for the ship Asia, to replace that lately burnt belonging to the said ship Asia; that the Carpenter desires an order or protection from this Board for that purpose, to convince any of his fellow-citizens (who might inquire), that he is doing...
Date: 18 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A draft of a letter to the committee at Brunswick, in New Jersey, was read and approved, and is in the words following, to wit.
Committee of Safety for the Colony of New York, During the recess of the Provincial Congress, New York, July 21st, 1775.
Gentlemen: We have had intelligence that boats have sundry times loaded flour at-or about your city, and have run down to the west bank, and there...
Date: 21 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Since my last of yesterday, Capt. [Jeremiah] Halsey, who has commanded the Sloop2 since she was left by her former Commander, arrived at this Post. He reports that the Schooner Liberty is returned from her Cruize towards the North End of Lake Camplain ー that about Isle la Mott she fell in with two Canoes, containing three Frenchmen and as many Indians ー that the[y] informed the Capt:...
Date: 27 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On Tuesday last [July 25] arrived at Sandy Hook his Majesty's ship Fowey, Capt. George Montague.
Date: 27 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Thursday the 13th, about eight o'clock in the evening, Francis Staple, the person who has the care of Turtle Bay, came to town and informed me of the following particulars, vizt. That about three o'clock this afternoon, the same sloop which carried off the stores from thence on the night of the 12th ultimo, came again to that place, and was met by a party of the Connecticut troops, supposed to be...
Date: 31 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Copy of a Letter, appearing to have been written from Joseph Read, Esq. secretary to Gen. Washington, was read, giving advice of the sailing of three men of war, &c. from Boston.
A draft of a letter to the committee of correspondence for East Hampton and Southold, was read and approved, and is in the words following, to wit:
In Provincial Congress, New York, 31st July, 1775.
Gentlemen ー By...
Date: 31 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The President informed the Congress that the Recorder had waited on him at the door, and informed him that the boat which had been building by order of the Committee of Safety was sawed to pieces, and entirely destroyed.
Ordered, That this matter be taken into consideration to-morrow morning.
Date: 1 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Mr Joseph Totten and Crosfeild
To Henry Sheafer
for building A boat for the Ship Asia
this boat abt 28 feet in length a 18s pr foot
£25
4
0
The boat not finshed by one Quarter
6
6
0
the ballance
£18
18
0
[Endorsed] Augt 11 1775 Examined & Allowd in the Sum of Eighteen pounds Eighteen Shillings
Date: 1 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A Letter from John Dennis, Chairman of the Committee of New Brunswick, in answer to the Letter of the Committee of Safety of the 21st ult., was read, and is in the words following, to wit:
[John Dennis's letter of July 27, 1775.]
Mr. [Isaac] Low moved that this Congress make a Resolution in the words following, to wit:
In Provincial Congress, August 2, 1775
Whereas it appeared to the Committee of...
Date: 2 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Ordered, That the consideration of the resolutions moved by Mr. [Isaac] Low on Wednesday, the second inst. with respect to the insult offered to this Congress by destroying the boat ordered to be built for the use of His Majesty's Ship Asia, and which was appointed for this day, be taken into consideration to-morrow morning.
Date: 4 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Mr. John Foster informed the Congress that the committee of the several towns in Suffolk county, have resolved not to permit any cattle or live-stock to be shipped off from Suffolk County; and further informed the Congress that if he may be permitted to send a cargo of live stock to the West Indies, he does engage to bring back in return, military stores for the benefit of this Colony, if the...
Date: 5 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On the 13th ultimo a Boat belonging to His Majesty's Ship of War the Asia (the only Kings Ship now in this Harbour) under the command of Captn [George] Vandeput was seized and set on Fire by the Mob. The Mayor and Corporation took up the Matter as a high misdemeanor, & attempted a discovery of the perpetrators of an outrage so manifestly contrary to the general sense and inclination of the...
Date: 7 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The mayor and some other of the magistrates attending at the door, informed one of the members that Capt. [George] Vandeput, of His Majesty's ship Asia, had requested to know whether he will receive a boat in lieu of that lately destroyed.
Ordered, That the mayor and magistrates be informed that it is the sense of this Congress that a new boat be built for the use of His Majesty's ship Asia....
Date: 9 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Last night an express arrived from Cambridge, which, it is said, brings advice that General Pribble1 had brought an account that six transports employed at Casco-Bay to procure forage and provisions for General Gage's army, had been surprized by 300 of the provincials in whale boats; five out of six of them were taken and secured in shoal water. Most of the men belonging to the...
Date: 10 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1