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In the House of Representatives. On the Petition of Simeon Samson, Commander of the Brigantine Hazard, in the service of this State, Praying that Officers of Marines may be appointed and provision made for them on board said Vessel.1
Resolved, That the Council, be, and hereby are Desired to appoint the following Marine Officers to serve on board the Brigantine Hazard, an Armed Vessel...
Date: 11 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
... There is a Paper left here, contents as follows—This is to give notice to the Capt or some one of the owners of the Privateer American Revenue1 yt the Appeal enterd by us the Subscribers hath ben Lodg'd in Congress, & refferd to ye. standing Committee of Appeals before whome the Same will be Argued with all imaginable dispatch Jos. ...
Date: 11 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
Voted That an order be drawn on Capt. Hacker to deliver to Colo Daniel Tillinghast 30 Small arms and accoutrements taking his receipt for the same to return them again—
Voted That a Letter be write to Mr. Jarvis1 in answer to his of the 7th: instant and to Inform him that a Court Martial for the Examination & Tryal of the Pilot of the...
Date: 11 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
Monday last a Flag of Truce came up the River from Newport, and brought TWO Prisoners for Exchange. An Officer1 that came in the Flag (who is a Lieutenant of one of the Enemy's Ships) was next Day detected in making Drafts of the River, Shipping &c. his Performances were secured, and a Guard immediately sent on board, to prevent any further Specimens of Ingenuity in this Way.......
Date: 11 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
An act for punishing persons Guilty of Wilfully and Maliciously destroying, Magazines of Stores or Vessels belonging to this State or the united States
Be it Enacted by the Governor, Council and reprsentatives in General Court Assembled and by the authority of the Same, That if any person or persons Shall willfully and maliciously burn or destroy or attempt or conspire to burn or destroy any...
Date: 11 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
Resolved by this Assembly, That a Prison Ship be provided for the reception of the prisoners of war in this State, if a convenient one can be hired or impressed for a convenient time at a reasonable price. And his Excellency the Governor is authorized and desired, by and with the advice of the Council of Safety, to give such orders therein as he shall judge most expedient.
Date: 11 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
Colo. Worthington1 has proposed to me sending for Mr. Bushnells2 Machines to destroy the Enemy's Shiping in the River—have mentioned the same to Genls. Parsons, Silliman & Ward3—we think an Experiment of that kind as likely to succeed up this River as in any Place—whether it is best to send on the Machines and make the...
Date: 11 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
October 1777
Saturday 11
Peeks Kiln ENE Fort Independance NBE ½ E & Butter Hill NW
AM Wash'd between decks all our Boats variously Employed
Peeks Kiln ENE Fort lndependance NBE ½ E & Butter Hill NW
Light Airs and fair Wear. PM several Vessels from New York Anchd. here recd. on bd. Three Six pounders and some Iron from the Montgomery Frigate...
Date: 11 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
Octr. 1777
Saturday 11
[Anchored off Fort Montgomery]
at 8 AM weighd in Co as before1 Standg. Up the River
Working through the Highlands
Light Airs and fair at 5 P:M: Pass'd through the Chevaux de Frize Steering Up the River at 6 Do Saw a Rebell Gally2 Gave Chace at 11 Do. Came too small Bower in 15 fm....
Date: 11 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
Colo Smith informs me that the Enemy have been raising Batteries near the Landing place at Webbs Ferry with an intent to cover their passage over to Provine Island. If the Battery is erected upon the Meadow or upon the Wharf it may be much injur'd or the approach to it from the City1 renderd very difficult by cutting the Meadow Banks in five or six places from the mouth of...
Date: 11 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
October 11th.—About 1 o'clock this morning Captain Montresor informed me that the battery on Province Island1 was ready to receive the howitzers and mortars, and desired me to march and cross the ferry directly. I got there about half past 2, and had got an 8 inch howitzer in the flat, but for want of some care the flat went to the bottom in an instant, with several men and horses, and...
Date: 11 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
Last Night the Enemy threw up a Battery in the Rear of the fort Close to the Banks of the Meadow within Musket Shot of us & had already got One pc. of artillery in it,1 we attack'd it with the floating Batteries, Block Houses, Gallies & our 32 pounder from the Battery & in Short time oblig'd them to hoist the white flag, as we were bringing off the prisoners...
Date: 11 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
My last1 inform'd you that the enimy had erected a battery at the mouth of Schuylkill—2
Last night a party of above One hundred Men got over at Webbs ferry and threw up a redoubt3 within two muskets shot of us, opposite the block house—as soon as discoverd the Commodore order'd three Gallies to attack the redoubt, also one of the floating batteries to play on it,...
Date: 11 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
[At] 12 [Midnight] thick fogg [At] 4 [AM] moderate & hazy [At] 6 made the general Signal for a Boat [At] 7 made the Liverpools, Signl. to look out aStern [At] 8 moderate & fair [At] 9 Boats employ'd Sounding &c, about the Cheveaux de freeze at Billings Port [At] 12 [Noon] Do. Weather, the Enemy kept a continual fire of Cannon, from Fort Island, floating...
Date: 11 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
Octr
Saturday 11
[Billingsfort East 4 Miles]
AM Recd: on board fresh Beef. at 7 the Rebels fired from Mud fort at our Batteries.1 At [11] the Enemies Galleys fired a number of Shot at the Liverpool, the advanced Ship.
Billingsfort EbS 4 Miles
Modte: & fine Wr: PM Sent our Boats to assist the Vigilent by towing her [at] [7] Sighted...
Date: 11 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
Silas Talbut,1 a Captain in the first Battalion raised by the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations, humbly sheweth, That on the first Day of August One Thousand seven Hundred & seventy six, by the Requisition of his Excellency General Washington, he entered on Board, & took Command of a Fire Ship in the Harbour of New York: That on the Night of the seventeenth of...
Date: 11 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
Octr: 1777
Sunday 12th.
Cape Sable N 8 Et: Distant 21 Leagues
at 6 AM saw a Sail in the SE Qr: Tkd: & gave Chace.—at 7 saw 2 sail in the NW Qr: brot. to the Chace a Schooner from Charlestown bound to Boston.1—made the Cruizing Signal to two Ships in Chace of us, which they answered.—at 9 spoke the...
Date: 12 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
I have the Honor in the Name of myself & the other Captors, to offer to their Lordships for the Service of Government the Ship I took from the Rebels, calld the Hancock; She has 32 Guns on board, & Ports for 34; is quite new off the Stocks, & is so fast a sailer, that Capt. Fotheringham of the Fox informd me she went Thirteen Knots (whilst he was Prisoner on board Her)...
Date: 12 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
October 1777
Sunday 12th.
Cape Ann West Distance 52 Leagues
at 1. AM in Boat's, at 6 saw a Ship & Schooner to the So:wd: gave Chace, made the Private Signal to which the Ship answered, at 8 Brot: too and sent a Boat onbd: the Schooner, in Topgt: Sails & 1st: Reefs, Tack'd and Stood for them, at 9 came up with...
Date: 12 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10
...Our Troops have not yet Landed on Rhode Island. there Appears in that quarter A want of vigour. & I think of Judgment. Things were not provided for the descent as soon as the Militia arrived & their spirit & Genius you know does not Admit of delays. when the Expedition was formed General Spencer1 Informed us every thing was prepared. he had Occasion for Nothing but two...
Date: 12 October 1777
Volume: Volume 10