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Genlemen of the Councel it seems on Saturday Last [February 10] a French vessel Ran on shoar on the south side of the Cape with an Hundred & Odd Hogsheads of molases and some Other small Articles and one Hogshead of sugar She Had a French master and one Pinkham of Nantucket the English master their Papers are all In French so I Can say But Little about them: there was on Board sd vessel one...
Date: 15 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
On my Arrival at this place I did apply to the Committee for a guard to conduct Sixteen Prisoners (late of the Fox Frigate) to Boston they set out from hence last Thursday but I am perswaded this will be with you before them — As I have three Lieutenants and fifty three Men onboard The Fox who I fear is taken to Halifax I beg as a particular favourthatTheOfficers of the Fox may not be disposed of...
Date: 21 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
May it please your Honors —
It having been suggested that Capt Fisk of the State armed Brig Massachusetts, has failed in point of Duty on a Cruise in Company with the Continental Brig Cabot & the State Brig Tyrannicide, and as Capt Fisk is anxious for some Means of clearing his Character from all Aspersions, we pray your Honors to order either a Court Martial or Court of Inquiry that Justice...
Date: 31 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Since my last, acquainting your Honors with the Intelligence I had receiv'd, concerning the Enemy's Design of invading this Place, we have found the reality of it. Last Wednesday the 13th Inst appear'd in Sight three Ships, a brig and a small schooner coming from the Westward, and standing in for the Harbour; & soon after came to an Anchor at the Mouth of the River; One of them was a large...
Date: 17 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
The Petition of John Hinckley and Andw Oliver humbly shews — that one Peter Higgins of Boston, some time in February last entered on board the Brigantine called the Freedom, belonging to this State, in the Capacity of a Gunner, that he proceeded in said Vessell under the Command of Capt Clouston in his late Voyage to France & returned home to Boston in her; and was on board during the whole...
Date: 29 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
The Navy Board Established by Congress for the four New England States finding it difficult to furnish themselves with Books Paper & Other Stationary Articles necessary to proceed in their Business and Supposeing the Committee of Sequestration to be possessd of them Beg your Honours to give them An Order on that Committee for such Articles as they may have Occasion for which they propose to...
Date: 2 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
The Petition of Perez Morton humbly shews —
That he with several other Persons, as owner of a Privateer Brigantine, pierced for 16 four pound Cannon, that thro' the impracticability of obtaining Cannon for her in this State, he is necessitated to send to Connecticut for them; that by late Regulations of that State, no Cannon are suffered to be transportd from thence, without a Certificate from...
Date: 11 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I understand that your Honble Board intend to dispatch a Flagg of Truce to Halifax, — Suffer me the Liberty to Send you a List of my Officers, & men who are now prisoners there, Rumbley praying that you would be pleased to take Such Steps as will Set them at Liberty as soon as possible, more Espacially Such a number of those first on the List, as may be an Equivalent for the Officers, and men...
Date: 16 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
The Petition of Ephraim Spooner William Watson & others of Plymouth Humbly sheweth,
That your Petitioners hath fitted out the Sloop called the America & ready to proceed on a Cruise burthen about Seventy Tons, mounting twelve Carriage Guns & navigated by Sixty Men has on Board fifty Bls Beef & Pork and three & half Tons Bread — fifteen hundred Wt Powder and Ammunition in...
Date: 20 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Mr [Edward] Southouse who was some time since taken On Board the Mellish with his family, by the Alfred, had by the Indulgence of his Honr Judge [Nathan] Cushing all his Effects Restored to him which Consisted of house Furniture & his Equipage, When he went hence for hallifax left part of his Goods at Bedford, which are since sent to me, they are pack'd in a Tierce & two Cases. he desired...
Date: 22 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
The Petition of Henry Strickland & Samuel Johnson Humbly shew,
That your petitioners sometime last Spring Deserted from the Milford Man of War, and got ashore at Cheboge, from whence they went in a Small Vessel to Quebeck, where they Entered on board a Merchantman bound to Cork, and on their passage were taken by an American Privateer Commanded by Capt Greely and immediately Entered on board...
Date: 29 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Au trez honorable
trez honorable Conceil
Superieur et Souverain
de la province de la nouvelle
angleterre
Suplie trez humblement jean Baptiste Hugounene Cape des navire marchant en france, de l'isle de la Martinique. disant que desirant armer un Corssaire d'environ quatorze pieces de Canon, equipe de soixante dix hommes. il plaise aux messieurs du Conceil luy faire accorder une...
Date: 24 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
That your Petitioner with others have fitted out the Ship Called the General Mifflin burthen about three hundred and fifty tons mounting Twenty, Six pounders and navigated by One hundred and Fifty Men, has on board as Provisions Two hundred barrels of Beef and Pork and Ten Tons of Bread, with Twenty barrels of Powder and four Tons of Shott
Officers on board are
Daniel McNeill
as...
Date: 17 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Agreeable to Instructions received from the Honble. Council, I proceeded to Newport in Order to Enquire into the cause of the detention of a Number of Prisoners, due to the State of Massachusetts Bay, and Negociate on that Business. on my Arrival there, I Applied to Lord Viscount Howe, Admiral and Commander of the British Fleet in America, relative to the Matter in Charge—Shewed him my...
Date: 25 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11