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22 [June] Sunday All in good health; but Badly Clothed & much worse fed we are Allowed By Govermt As follows Viz Each Man to have In a Week 7 lb of Brown Course Bread, 7 Quarts of the Smallest of Beer, 4½ lb. of the meanest of Beef, I lb. of Greans, 6 Ounces of Cheese & ½ a Jill of Salt. & some times the Pot Liquor at [after] the fat was taken of[f] —
23d of June Clear & Pleast wr...
Date: 28 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
You will Please to acquaint My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty of the return of His Majestys Ship under my Command into Plymouth Sound and lay before them the lnclosed Journal of my Proceedings, in Execution of their Lordships orders of the 23rd May; And also Inform them that having chased several Vessels within sight of Bell Isle, I fell in with a French Frigate of 32 Guns, who appeared...
Date: 29 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
29th [June] Sunday raw Cold weathr
30th fair wr 12 Lamp Posts Erected round Our walls In Order to Illuminate the Jail Least some shoud Indeavour to Elope by night— the13th Regt to Guard us, a Lieuts Guard Consisting of 36 Soldiers, 12 of which are upon Centry Steady —
Date: 30 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
4th [July] this [day] recd Intelligence that Mr Phinehas Smith Our Sailing Master & Jona Knowlton Carpenter to the Doltin [Dalton] made an Elopement from the Royal Hospital — A fleet of 40 Sail of Merchtn Put into the Sound in Consequence of a Head wind, (Bound to America) this Day 12 Months the United States of America Declar'd Independent which they've Supported one year. God send they Ever...
Date: 4 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
12th [July] this Morning Between the Hours of 3. & 4. Doctr [Samuel] Smith, Mr Little, James Dean, Wm Smith from the Hospital Mr George from the B.[lack] hole & Hy Lunt fr. the Itchy Ward All Eloped thro the Vaultt of the Hospital — at 6 A.M. Benja Sheckle Died —
Date: 12 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
4th [August] 3 More Prisoners retd from the Hospt, On the 18th of Last month begun to Mine a Passage under ground from the Long Prison in Order for An Elopement but As I'm so low by the Small pox I Don't Expect to Elope — This Night favour'd their Design &at 11 P.M. began to Open the Hole thro which 32 passed before Day without being Discover'd, they was not Miss'd till about 10 A.M. We...
Date: 4 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
[1777. August] 15th. Friday. Capt John Lee, of the Fancy, Privateer from Newburyport, taken by the Fordroyant 9th inst., and nine of his crew brt on shore and committed to prison. Capt Lee is put into the prison with Capt Burnell and Capt Ross. Lee has been out 8 weeks from Newburyport.
Number of prisoners 210.
9 months from Newburyport.
Date: 15 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
[1777. August] 22. We hear that Ticonderoga is taken by the King's troops, and also Philadelphia; that the Hancock, Captain Manley, is taken, and the Fox retaken; but we cannot tell what to believe by what we hear; for since we have been taken we have heard, nearly twenty times, that Philadelphia was taken, and as many times that Washington was killed; that Congress was divided, that continental...
Date: 22 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Being persuaded of your Lordships tender feelings, flowing from those truly humane principles which have ever distinguish'd Britains from the more barbarous Nations; I cannot but flatter my self with hope of your Lordships immediate interposition in behalf of the American prisoners, who are now Actually perishing with hunger,
My Lords, the relation of Facts I humbly beg leave to lay before your...
Date: 29 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
[1777. August] 31. Sunday. To-day we had a newspaper, where-in was a confirmation of Ticonderoga and Philadelphia being taken; also, of the Hancock frigate and Fox being retaken; this news is very disagreeable to us, for we are sorry to hear of the enemy being in any way victorious; for should they conquer the country, or even get the upper hands of it, we are positive that the gallows or the...
Date: 31 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
To the Honble the Commissioners for Sick & lame Seamen, the Petition of Thomas Haley Humbly Sheweth,
That your Petitioner is an Englishman and was one year in his Majestys Service in Virginia under the Earl of Dunmore, and that he was one of the Crew, belonging to a Vessell sent from Norfolk in that Colony to the Island Bermuda by order of the said Earl of Dunmore, and on his return was taken...
Date: 21 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I have the pleasure to acquaint you of my Arrival here, Having mett with the Lexington Brig, Armed by the American Congress with Sixteen four Pounders Twelve Swivels and Eighty four Men, commanded by Henry Johnston (late Master of the Yankee Privateer, who made his Escape from the Mars at Blackstakes September 1776) which, I took the 19th instant WBS 14 leagues from Ushant, two days out from ...
Date: 24 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
[1777. September] 26th. The new Black hole finished. Will. Ford took possession of it. Capt Henry Johnson, of the brig Lexington, taken the 19th inst. off Ushant by a Cutter of 12 guns; sent in the 24th, brought on shore from the Blenheim with six of his officers, examined and committed here. Put in the prison with Capt Burnell.
Date: 26 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
[1777. September] 27. Ten more of Captain Johnston's men came to prison to-day. They inform us that they were taken by a ten gun cutter after almost four hours' engagement, and having expended all their shot; they were so disabled by having their shrouds, stays, and braces shot away, and so nearly wrecked, that they were obliged to strike to their inferiors. They had six men killed and a number...
Date: 27 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9