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1776
To Ballance of an Accot delivered 24 Jany. Last
20.11.3
Feby 3
By Cash Reced from Silas Dean
To Cash pd Sundry Officers & Seamen belonging to
Esqr - 576 Dollars
£216.0.0
Ship Alfred as P List
100.13.9
March 26
" ditto Reced from Joseph
" do pd do do belonging to
Hews Esqr. 200 -ditto
75.0.0
Ship Columbus P do
43.16.3
April 12
" ditto Reced from ditto...
Date: 14 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
You are desired to repair immediately to the City of New York, and there purchase a Ship suitable for carrying 20 nine pounders upon one deck, if such a Ship can there be found. Also a Sloop, suitable to carry ten guns, which we would choose should be Bermudian built if such a one can be had. If you succeed in purchasing both, or either of these Vessels, you will use all possible expedition to...
Date: 7 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
You are desired to repair immediately to the City of New York and there purchase a ship suitable for carrying 20 nine pounders upon one deck, if such a ship can there be found. Also a sloop suitable to carry ten guns, which we would choose should be Bermudian built, if such a one can be had. If you succeed in purchasing both, or either of these Vessels, you will use all possible expedition to...
Date: 17 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The Congress are now preparing two Ships and two Brigantines to be fitted out as soon as possible to cruise against our common enemy ー they have thought of you as a proper person to take the command of one of those ships as Captain If you enter into this service, which we take to be the Service of your country, You will give us the earliest information and repair to Philadelphia as soon as your...
Date: 27 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Agreed, That application be made to the Committee of Safety for as many Seamen out of the Boats as are willing to go on this cruize. 2
Date: 18 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Agreed, That Mr. [Stephen] Hopkins be desired to wait on the Committee of Safety with the resolution of this Committee, desiring their permission to apply to the Seamen on board the Galleys for such as are willing to enter on board the Continental armed Vessels now fitting for sea in this city.
Date: 19 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
The Committee for Naval Affairs present their Compliments to the Committee of Safety for the Province of Pennsylvania, and acknowledge that they have been supplied by them with many important articles, which they could no where else procure, and are now brought to the necessity to beg the said Committee to supply the principal Surgeon of the American Fleet 2 with thirty-six pounds of...
Date: 20 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
This Committee are of Opinion that all the Officers and Men employed in the Service of the United Colonies by sea who do their duty properly but who notwithstanding their utmost efforts are taken Prisoners, are properly entitled to the same Wages that they Received before they were made prisoners, until they are Released from Captivity ー And the Commander in Chief is hereby desired to signify the...
Date: 4 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
The Naval Committee give possitive Orders, that every Officer in the Sea and Marine Service, and all the Common men belonging to each, who have enlisted into the Service of the United Colonies on board the Ships now fiting out, that they immediately repair on board their respective Ships as they would avoid being deemed deserters, and all those who have undertaken to be Security for any of them...
Date: 4 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Orders and Directions for the Commander in Chief of the Fleet of the United Colonies
You are to take care that proper discipline good order and peace be preserved amongst all the Ships, and their companies, under your command
You are to direct the Several Captains to make out and deliver monthly or oftner, an exact return of the officers seamen and marines on board of each respecting vessel...
Date: 5 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
The United Colonies directed by principles of just and necessary preservation against the oppressive and cruel System of the British Administration whose violent and hostile proceedings by Sea and land against these unoffending Colonies, have rendered it an indespensible duty to God, their Country and Posterity to prevent by all means in their Power the ravage, desolation and ruin that is...
Date: 5 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
You being Commander of the Sloop Hornet in the senrice of the United Colonies, are instructed as soon as the said Sloop shall be armed and manned, to proceed down the Bay of Chesapeak so far as to be certain of not being interrupted by the ice, and choose some safe and convenient Station for annoying the Enemy in every way you can. You are also to order the Schooner Wasp to follow or accompany...
Date: 5 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
The Congress attentive to the safety and security of every part of the united Colonies, and observing the peculiar distresses that the Colony of Virginia is liable to from a Marine enemy, have with all possible expedition fitted out a small fleet of Armed Vessels, which they have ordered in the first place to the Bay of Chesapeak, if the winds and weather permit, there to seize and destroy as...
Date: 5 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
You having received a Commission from the Congress to command the aforesaid ship You are hereby directed to take charge of her and all her officers men & stores ー to see that everything be conducted in the most prudent manner, and that the most careful and exact discipline peace and good order be maintained at all times onboard the said ship ー And that you put yourself and the ship aforesaid...
Date: 6 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
We are ordered by Congress to signify to you, that you are with the Hornet & Wasp under your Command to take under your Convoy such Vessels as are ready for the Sea as shall be committed to your Care by the Comee of Safety at Maryland, & see them safe through the Capes of Virginia & without a Moments Loss of Time after this Service is done you are to go to the Capes of Delaware,...
Date: 10 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
As this perhaps may be the last opportunity we may have to write to you before you go to sea, we thought it necessary to give you every intelligence that is come to our knowledge ー We shall first give you the disagreable intelligence brought hither by an Express from Quebec of an unsuccessful attack that was made to storm that city on the 31st of December in the morning in which General [Richard...
Date: 18 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
to Nicholas Biddle
To Cash paid for Officers and Seamens Board Wages as P enclosed Account 3
£53 ー 15 ー 3
To a Months pay Advance to John Chiswell. James Wilson. George Kelly. John Moies. and William Adams, Seamen and Peter Miller Landsman
17 ー 10 ー 0
To Cash paid Mr [James] Josiah for his expences in Philadelphia in quest of Deserters. for 9 days
1 ー 13 ー 0
To Cash paid...
Date: 19 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
1775 Dr The Honoble the Naval Committee in Accot with James Read Paymaster to the Fleet
Decr To
Cash paid Capt Nicholls's [Samuel Nicholas'] Compy. on Months Advance
£182. 5. 0
"
ditto paid Capt [Joseph] Shoemakers do do
178. 5. 0
"
ditto paid Capt. (John] Welshs do do
148. 10. 0
"
ditto paid [...
Date: 24 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3