Displaying 1 - 20 of 20
Sirs, The brigs are both dischar[g]'d.2 On hoisting out the lower tier of the Flour on board Mr Lux and Bowley's Brig, I find it is damaged. I have had two gentlemen to view the Flour. The report they make I send you.3 The Flour apears to have been wet sum time ago, as it is rotten all round the outsides and head of the barrill and has since dried so that it is hard and...
Date: 11 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I Recd your Lett[er] and am Well Satisfy'd that I have So far Pleasd you ー you Menshon Sending £250 By Capt Nicollson he Brought Me a Order for that Sum But No Cash, have Sent the Order By Mr Wells to Reeve the Mony, after Paying the flowr Expence to Poakamoak the Expence of Discharging the Brigs and the hier of the Vesells for the Troops to Elk, shall Lay Out the Remainder in any Way you Pleas...
Date: 14 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I have Recd your Letter Conserning Skow and Bots which I should answerd Sum Time But Was in Pentapsco Neck Getting timber for the Gundelos which I must atend on I Dont No When it Would Bee Got, and the frigat Busines as I have all to Prepare for her With My Own Busines and a Thousand Other Peoples. I am allmost Wore out Butt shall Try My Best to Serve you there is Skows to Bee had I am Offerd...
Date: 13 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I am Going On a Bout the timber and other thing[s] for the Gundeloes Which I shall Purchase and Bring into the yard as fast as Posible But have made No Bargin With you a Bout it ー I shall Charge the Same for My Time as When I Superidentended the Frigat Busines Which Was 22 j6d P Day and I had the Liberty of Furnishing her With all the Bar Iron Deliver'd at the Place at £26 pr Toon I Mean Mr Wells...
Date: 15 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I understand your Going to Strip the Schooner Resolution I Dont Pretend to Direct you But think shee had Best Bee Loded With Bread Which you Now have Redy and Sent to Sum Market Where it Mout Be Sold to Advantage, and Loded home With Salt Perhaps shee May have a Second Sute of Sales that May answer, this Shall Leave to yore Beter Gugment from your Humbl Servant
Date: 23 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
the Bearer Capt William Worth has C[o]me from Newengland to take Charge of the Schooner Dolley N: 10 that Was Sunk at the alarm at Baltimore, there Seems to Bee a Anker & Cabble Missing I have taken all the pains I am Capable of to find them, But Cannot and Capt Nicoldson has Put a Vallerv On Such as hee Soposd the[y] Ware, for your Consideration these things Ware Soposd to Bee takken Care of...
Date: 8 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I Sent you By a Vesell yester Day 100 bbls of Bread and 18 Casks of Powder for Colonall [Robert] Hooe and a gread With the Bote to Carry your Salt But she went to the Point to Take in the Salt as I thought But Went of[f] Without taking it and I fear Much to your Pregudis But you May Depend that it shall Come With the Next Bot Wee are Going On as Well as Wee Can I hope the Resolution Will Bee With...
Date: 14 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Capt king has at Last Left Baltimore With all his Papers Invoices &c With him,2 Which I hope Will Pleas — Capt keltey [John Kilty] is Loded 3 But has Many things to Provide Which I New Nothing of, there is No Gib Saill Nor Can Mr Dogan [Cumberland Dugan] find One I have advisd Capt Celty to Ride Down to No if you have any Canvis to Make One, as Wee have None here Nor Do...
Date: 21 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
1776
The Honorable the Council of Safety of Maryland
To Jesse Hollingsworth
For sundries Supplied the Schooner Resolution —
Dr
Novr 14.
To Cash paid for 1¾ Cords wood @ 18/
£1
11
6
15.
To Ditto paid for 630 Nails
7
6
21.
To 29 lb Brown Sugar @ 13d Cask 1/3
1
12
8
To Cash paid for 2 Keggs
7
6
To 1 Barrel of Flour Nt Wt 2..0..0 @ 13/6 Cask 1/10
1
8
10
To 1 Box of...
Date: 21 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Jesse Hollingsworth's Account for Cargo Supplied the Maryland Schooner Resolution, November 21, 1776
1776
The Honorable The Council of Safety of Maryland
To Jesse Hollingsworth
For part of the Cargo on board the Schooner Resolution
Dr
Novr 16
To 20 Hhds Tobacco Nt Wt 17935 lb @ 22/6 P Ct Hhds a 5/ Each
£206
15
4½
To Cash paid Mackie & Brinton Storage of the above Tobacco @ 1/ P Hhd
1
—
—
21
To 49 Barrels of Super fine Flour Nt Wt 77..1..2 @ 17/ P Ct
65
13
6½
To 39...
Date: 21 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Sirs Capt. John Carry is in Want of a Mate as he informs Mee, there is a Good Looking yongue Man that Came Mate of a Prise Skooner 2 taken By Capt Cook that is Willing to Emedelly Enter With Capt Carry as Mate But Capt Cook Will Not Releas him Without your Orders So Would have you Write him I have Done all in My Powr to Get him But it Dont Seem Satisfactory to Capt Cook as I have Wrote...
Date: 30 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I Sent you a Parsell of Naills By Mr Speer [William Spear] and have Bought a Parsell of the Rum that Was On Bord the Skooner, a Bout £ 500 Worth and as Soon as any of the Vesells is to be Sold I Will Purchas the Skooner or the Brig Or Both,2 I Would Purchasd the Snow But the Best Guges thought her to Old, 3 the Prise Ship that Come yesterday is a Verry fine One for the Old...
Date: 11 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I have Bought the Brig 2 a greeable to your Orders at a Very Great Prise the People all Seemd Determind to have her shee Cost 2550 Pounds I Sopose shee is a fine See Vesell But shee is Not Worth that Morry But I Beleve it Was the Congrase against the Province I Was Very Canded a Bout the Matter I here the[y] intend to Apply to you for her I think you had Best Spare her to them I Dont...
Date: 28 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I did not by the ship yesterday, but can have her this morning for the 4400 Pounds.2 Shee is a fine Ship built in Philladelphia, but 4 years old, Seeder and live Oke, sales well and compleat full riged, and is as fine a ship as ever I saw. I have sent down George Dafney expres to now if I may take her for you. I think her a bargin if any ship of her sise is a bargin. Pleas let me Now by Mr Dafney...
Date: 10 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
I shall have the Ship Liddia deliverd to mee to Morer at £4400 Pounds. I think shee is a bargin, and that I should bee very glad, if Capt. Celty [John Kilty] could bee aquainted with it, as hee promist hee would go out in her, if the Counsill of Safety got her. Pleas aquaint him by first opertunity, or by expres, as there must bee god men got for her emedetly and I think him fit for that task....
Date: 13 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
I this Day am Aplied to By Capt kook for Sum Sutable plase as a Standing Warfe With Warehouses and all Other Convenient howses yards and Convenien[cies] of all kinds for the Province use to Contain Provisions Sales Riging of all Sorts a Dwelling hous yard and W eell to Bee Cept for the States use With a Proper Man to Reeve and Deliver Stores and Neseryes of a[ll] kinds I have the Conveniensies...
Date: 16 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Sir Above is the Bill of the Sails2 ー The Balance of yr acct you may depend on having as soon as possible ー Should be glad the Receipts for the wheat may be handed in, as I beleive some of them have been omitted ー However I doubt not but the Quantity you mention is right as it measured out a few Bushels more which you must not insist on having, as wheat crouded in so fast towards the...
Date: 2 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I Was yesterday On Bord the Brig friendship With Capt [John] Martin and John Crokket She is Very Leeky and Must Bee hove Down at any Rate, to Stop the Leeks, shee has Never Been Corkd Since shee Was Lanst [Launched], and as shee Must have a Over hall Would itt Not Bee Best to fit her for See and Send her Out with a Bout 14 hands and 4 or 6 of her Smallest Guns and in that Case shee Will Carry...
Date: 3 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
. . . I have Got the Brig friendship up to the County Warf and on Soft Mud there to Ly till farther Orders —I have Advanst Cash to Capt [George] Cook and his officers, and Sum to the Galleys — So that there is a Continual Expence and Must Bee While the officers are here With the Galleys — the Carpenters Corkers and Riggers are Going On Wee Want Sum Salt Provisions Pleas Order Sum up By the Barer...
Date: 2 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
We the under written with many others being Concerned in Vessals arrived at the Different Inlets of the Eastern parts of Maryld. and Virginia Beg leave to Represent to your Excellency, that a large part of the Trade Carried on by this State is by way of those Inlets and from thence down the River Pokamoake and thro the Tangier Sound to the Differt. parts of this State, And...
Date: 17 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11