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The Letter from Lord Dartmouth and the Copy of the Kings Order in Council Copies of which are enclosed were brought by the Scarborough, received by Express on Wednesday Evening last [December 7] and next Morning laid before the General Assembly. They immediately ordered Copies of them to be sent to Mr. [Thomas] Cushing to be communicated to the [Massachusetts] provincial Congress.2...
Date: 14 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
On my Return [from Philadelphia] I found the People of Connecticut in Arms for Sixty Miles; a Fleet of twelve Sail of Men of war and Transports had been at the Mouth of New London Harbour; an Attack was expected from them, but they only went to Fishers Island and got about 1000 Sheep and Lambs and 30 head of indifferent horned Cattle, the only fat ones being brought off a few Days before. The...
Date: 12 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
5th [October]. Congress according to the order of the day went into a Committee of the whole, etc. After some debate a member produced a number of letters from England, which were read, and Captain Read, just arrived,2 and the gentleman to whom the letters were written, desired to attend the Congress. Expresses sent to General Washington, Governor Cooke and Governor Trumbull, to send...
Date: 5 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I laid that Part of your Honors Letter relative to the proposed Voyage and your first Letter upon the same Subject before the Comee of Secresy & I am instructed to acquaint you. That they approve of the Plan and in Behalf of the united Colonies agree to advance a sufficient Sum of continental Money to purchase sixty or eighty Tons of good Gun Powder as suits you best, to run the Risque of the...
Date: 5 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
This Morning one Duncan Campbell at first an half pay Officer lately promised a Compy Commd who married in this Province and setled in Dutchess County in N. York was brought before the Comee of Safety of this Province; He and one Sims a Lieut under him and a Sarjunt and about twenty Privates were on Board a Transport from Boston which was cast away at little Egg harbor; they were going to N. York...
Date: 24 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I am concerned that I have recd no Answer from the Depy Govr to my Letter wrote him by Order of the secret Comee, the Voyage was unanimously approved of, and as I wrote him that they might immediately proceed and the Money to be advanced should at any Time be ready for his order I hope they have sailed but wish to know as soon as possible.
The Necessity of importing Powder occasioned the...
Date: 2 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
We deferred an answer to your Honor's last letter hoping to have obtained the Resolves of Congress upon the Interesting Subjects contained in it. We laid it before Congress. Business has since been very pressing, but we shall embrace the first favorable opportunity of obtaining the proper Resolves & shall transmit them as soon as possible.2
We have no news from England since the...
Date: 4 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
. . . our Instructions for an american Fleet has been long upon the Table;2 when it was first presented it was looked upon as perlectly chimerical, but Gentn now consider it in a very different Light; it is this Day to be taken into Consideration3 and I have great Hopes of carrying. Dr Franklin, Colo [Richard Henry] Lee, the two Adams and many others will support it; if it...
Date: 16 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
We have been so vastly hurried that the building a Navy hath not been taken into Consideration yet, but it will be done in a Day or two I think.2
Date: 21 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Sir Since our last We have the Honor of two Letters from you; Genl Hopkins has arrived very well, his accepting the Command of the Fleet gives universal Satisfaction:2 Capt Whipple is not yet arrived; We are a little embarrassed about the Vessel, the Comee informs us that the Colony considers her as belonging to the Continent & in their Service & propose to be repaid for her...
Date: 2 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
This Day I shall enjoy Myself highly; next to the Pleasure of being at home is that of seeing our Friends when abroad; Govr Hop[kins], his Bror [Esek] and Son, [John Burroughs Hopkins], the Comee for Accts2 and Capt Whipple all do Me the Favor to dine with Me; never did I expect the Pleasure of seeing so many of my Countrymen on this Side Rhodeisland. I shall be happy if the Afternoon...
Date: 3 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I was astonished to find by a Letter from Mr [Thomas] Mumford that You was shipping live Cattle on Acct of the united Colonies, there is an express Resolve of Congress that no horned Cattle, Sheep Hogs or Poultry should be exported and it must be owing to the great Haste in which your Permit was made out that it may not [have been] expressly inserted you was informed however of the Purport of it...
Date: 13 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
I have the Pleasure to acquaint you that upan considering our Instruction for a Navy the Congress have agreed to build thirteen Ships of War, a Comee is to be this Day appointed with full Powers to carry the Resolve into Execution, Powder and Duck are ordered to be imported, all other Articles it is supposed may be got in the Colonies; two of these Vessels are to be built in our Colony, 1 in New...
Date: 14 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
If the Comee for building those Vessels in our Colony had been appointed by Congress I should have taken Care to have had You appointed one of the Comee but as a Comee of Congress is appointed to carry into Execution the Resolve for building the Fleet it is out of my Power. Mr [Stephen] Hopkins, being on the naval Comee before, is one. I have mentioned it to him, or rather I believe read him part...
Date: 27 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
The french Gentn [Penet and de Pliarne] arrived on Friday Evening [December 29] ; Congress has referred them to the secret Comee We had a Conference with them last Evening; this Afternoon they paid Mr "[Silas] Dean[e] and Me a Visit and were going to wait on the other Members.
I am grieved for the poor People of Newport; when will there be an End of their Misfortunes. I wish they would nobly...
Date: 31 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
The Marine service is of such vast Importance, that we doubt not of your utmost Attention to it in all its Branches. The Ravages committed by the armed Vessels & the continual alarms raised by them must be very distressing to the Colony, but what would not a wise man do or suffer, to preserve his Liberty, the alone Source of human Happiness and only Security for the permanent Enjoyment of it...
Date: 7 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Our Seamen arrived here the Day before yesterday, those concerned in the naval Department are highly pleased with them ther Arrival gives fresh Spirits to the whole Fleet, 2
Your Favor of the 4th we recd I would wish to have the Instructions of the Genl Assembly relative to the Regiment or any other colonial affairs as soon as may be
The Letters of Govr [William) Franklin & the...
Date: 16 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3