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I have this moment wrote to Captain [Henry Edwin] Stanhope, & given him by his Excellencies Command, Such reasons for not imediatly granting his request as Cannot but be Satisfactory; the Same reasons you will clearly See hold good with respect to you ー the General is truely Concerned it is not at present in his power to grant you Leave to go to Nova Scotia to your familly the first moment...
Date: 24 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
your Letter to his Excellency of the 23d instant is Come to hand, by Lieut. Wiggleworth [John Wigglesworth], his Conduct respecting Mr Dote, in giving up the first Lieutenancy to him will be taken due notice of on a future occasion
he Carrys the Commissions, & Cartridge paper ー the General doubts not your endeavoring to get the Harrison out as soon as possible ー
Date: 25 January 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Last Saturday [January 20] a vessel, filled with our distressed brethren of Boston, put off from that place, and landed her passengers at Chelsea, among whom were Capt. Andrew S[y]mmes, and Capt. John Dean. It is said a considerable number more were soon to follow.
Last Thursday [January 18] one of our cruisers, 1 commanded by Captain [Stephen] Mascoll, carried into Cape Ann a ship of...
Date: 25 January 1775
Volume: Volume 3
By His Excellency George Washington
Esqr General & Comander in Chief of
the Army of the United Colonies ー
Permit William Foster, James Lowrie, Robert Hunter, 2 to proceed to Great Brittain in the best manner they Can, provided they do not go by way of Boston, they have given their paroles, not to act inimical to the United Colonies.
Date: 26 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
wrote him that Captain [John] Ayres woud have the Comand of a Schooner to be fitted out, in order to supply the place of Such whose Cruizes may be out, and to give Captain Ayres every assistance he Can
Date: 26 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
The Hancock Armed Schooner
I received your agreeable Letter of the 26th instant giveing an account of your haveing taken & Carried into Plymouth two of the Enemys transports. Your Conduct in engageing the eight gun Schooner, with so few hands as you went out with, your attention in Securing your prizes, & your general good behavior since you first engaged in the Service, Merits Mine,...
Date: 28 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Your letter to his Excelly of the 26th is Come to hand with the papers found on board the Norfolk & Happy return transports taken by Comodore Manly ー you will please to Libel them imediatly & the Sooner they are brought to trial the more agreeable it will be to the General you will take notice that the private property of the Captains & Crews are to be Carefully guarded for them,...
Date: 28 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Sir Your favours of the 6th & 20th Instant, I received yesterday with the several resolves of Congress attended to, for which I return you my thanks.
Knowing the great Importance Canada will be of to us in the present Interesting contest, and the releif our Friends there stand in need of, I should be happy, were It in my power to detach a Batallion from this Camp, But It cannot be done ー On...
Date: 30 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
you and the rest of my friends must excuse me for not writing often the disbanding An Army within half a cannon shot of the enemy and fixing another in its place is not only a new manouvere but one that causes much trouble and some anxiety the far greater part of this business is happily finish'd for the particulars I refer you to the last page. last night an express from Col. Arnold dated the...
Date: 30 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
... I can acquaint you that our Commodore Manly has just taken two ships from White Haven to Boston, with coal and potatoes, and sent them into Plymouth, 2 and fought a tender (close by the light house where the vessels were taken), long enough to give his prize time to get off, in short, till she thought it best to quit the combat, and he to move off from the men-of-war, which were...
Date: 31 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Sir Mr [Jonathan] Glover called upon the General this day informing him that the Legislative power of this Province, were about makeing Some alterations or amendment in the Act, relative to Captures made by armed vessels, fitted out of this Colony. So as to make that act Conformable to the Resolutions of Congress, he allso mentioned that Some difficulties may arrise, after Condemnation respecting...
Date: 31 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Last Monday [January 29] one of the Continental Cruizers got into a harbour to the eastward, having been chased by the Lively man of war, who fired about 170 shot at her. 1
A wood vessel, bound to Boston, was taken by one of our cruizers this week, in the Bay.
Last Thursday morning [January 25], Capt. Manley, being on a cruize in the Bay, discovered a ship a league or two S.E. of...
Date: 1 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Your favor of the 29th ulto is Come to hand there must be an enquirey made into the Conduct of that Comander who So shamefully deserted his Commodore please to Let the General know which of the Schooners it was ー the General thinks it will be proper that the Captains of these vessels, prove upon oath their private property, 2 after which you may delive[r] to them all except the beeff...
Date: 1 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Major Hubbard will want 100 Tons of the Coals taken in the two prizes Sent into your place by Commodore Manly , 2 as it is for the publick Service His Excellency is willing to Let him have them, he paying as much for them as any one else woud his Excellency desires you woud be Careful to prevent waste of this article, as it will be very Much wanting for the publick works, he...
Date: 1 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Acknowledged Receipt of his Letter of the 2nd Ins giving an Acct of the Brig Henry & Esther, laden with 62 Cord of Wood, 150 Butts with Water, 40 Suits of Soldiers Bedding, taken by Captain [Daniel] Waters & Captain [Samuel] Tucker 2 & sent into Swan [Squam] Harbour ー ordered the private Property to be given up, after Captain Nelles proves the same on Oath, to libel her...
Date: 4 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
I last night received Intelligence of the Arrival of some Powder in your Colony by the sloop Maccaroni, & the report is that she brought Arms too ー As my last Letters from Philadelphia do not promise me an Immediate supply of these necessaries, And as the Exigency of this Army at this particular crisis, calls for much more than what we have I beg the favour of you to Interest yourself, that...
Date: 8 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
We hear, "that as Capt. Manly was coming out of Plymouth, January 30, an armed brig (which went from Boston for the purpose of taking him, as is supposed) 1 gave him chace; upon which he ran his vessel on shore, a little South of the North river, in Scituate. The brig came to anchor, and fired not less than 400 times upon the privateer; but, very remarkably, no man was even wounded....
Date: 8 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
In Compliance with the resolves of Congress I have applied to General Howe for the exchange of Mr [James] Lovell, A Copy of my Letter & his Answer thereto you have Inclosed. ー
Captain Watters [Daniel Waters] & Captain [Samuel] Tucker who Command two of the Armed Schooners, have taken & sent into Gloster a Large Brigantine Laden with wood, 150 Butts for water, & 40 Suits of Bedding...
Date: 9 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
I have it in command from his Exceilency General Washington to Inform you, that on Tuesday last [February 6] he received a petition from the Mariens in Springfeild Jail, Signed by David Scurrey & Patrick Clark, Sugesting the Severity of their Confinement without Fire & the want of necessary Cloathing at that Inclement season ー His Excellency doubts not but you have paid proper attention...
Date: 9 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
The Congress have ordered all captures to be tried in the courts of admiralty of the different governments to which they are sent, and some irreconcilable difference arising between the resolves of Congress, and the law of this colony, respecting the proceedings, or something or another which always happens to procrastinate business here, has put a total stop to the trials, to the no small injury...
Date: 10 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3