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We have the Kings Speech to his Parliament, The Addresses, and the Lords Protest, we observe both Houses re-echoed the Speech with out Knowing the Kings information to be true if we may believe the protesting Lords, and by that complaisance of theirs, we see that like obedient Spaniels they were ready to leap over the Stack. The speech threatens, threats make no impression. By Letters we...
Date: 10 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I am instructed by the Convention now sitting to communicate to your Committee the enclosed Resolve. Our Governor having no other Opportunity of procuring a Passage to great Britain than by some Packett or Ship from the Fleet in your Colony, has Requested this Convention to give a Passport for a Boat to go down to the Fleet on an Enquiry for a convenient passage. This Convention has thought...
Date: 25 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I have as Mr [Matthew] Tilghman Desired in His to Me of Thursday Made Enquiry for Small Vessells, but Cannot find that any are to be Got Here on freight ー I fancy if they are to be Procured it will be Down the Bay, the Sooner they are Got the Better, as I fear the flower now Begins to spoil ー I was yesterday Down at the fort, they Are Pretty forward, and the Resistance they Can now Make, if the...
Date: 2 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
. . . The last letters bring us a piece of Intelligence that it may be material for you to know one Mr [Davis] Bevan a person that may be depended on who was taken by Capt Hammond [ Andrew Snape Hamond] informed Mr Morris that Hammond told him they were now determin'd to put a total stop to our trade, and for that purpose 6 Frigates were to be stationed off Georgia and the Carolinas, 6 off the...
Date: 21 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I am sorry by Your Last 2 to find that the Vessel Must be Delay'd unless We Raise the Price of flower to 13/ [However] as Our Businss Will suffer by Not Hurr[yin]g her [illegible] off With the Utmost Dispatch I now Acqua[i]nt you that we have the Consent of the Council of Safety to [ra]ise the Price for the Remainder of Her Cargo if it Cann[ot] be got Under I am &c
Date: 19 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3