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lb Sole Leather 4/ 1¼ hundd 10 d nails 1/ 10½
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6d nails 1½ hundd 40 each
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Colony Dr Joseph Shurtloff bill for boards &c
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Colony Dr cash pd Anty Thomas for 1351 lb pork
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Joseph Short carting do
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Lazs Goodwin for 7.2.0 Bar Iron @ 40/
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Nathan Spear for 30 Iron bound W[ater] Cask
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Date: 15 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
[Kingston] June 23d
Colony Dr expences of Journey to Boston for Stores &c for Brigt [Independence]
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pd Zephs Fuller for pilotage to Plimo[uth]
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Date: 23 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
the bearer Capt [Daniel] Adams shew me a paper from you impowering him to purchase a number of Gunns to arme one of your Provence Brigs.2 ー I had just now purchased fifteen Four & Six pounders a pr Swivels Shott &c. as pr Invoice which he will deliver you Amounting to £907.9.2 which I intended for a Privateer ー but Capt Adams has prevailed on me to let you have them, and that...
Date: 1 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Cash, pd for 1 Months Advance pay to
Crew of Brigt Independence
230.18..ー
Date: 3 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Capt. Samson waits upon the Council to make report, & receive further orders.
As some small repairs are wanting on the Brigantine he commands ー and if the Honble Council should order him out Again, some provisions &c will be necessary I imagine it will be thought needful, that some person should be appointed for these purposes, as I do not know that any provision has been made in these...
Date: 23 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Sloop Elizabeth to me as Agent2
Dr
To
Bill of Cost pr the Register
8.13. 3
advertising cargo for Sale
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Cash pd Isaac Bartlett for pilotage
3.18.ー
Portage Bill for Do Sloop
87.13. 2
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Date: 14 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I yesterday addressed a line to you,2 mentioning the arrest of a prize of Capt Samson's of the Brigt Independence with a number of Irish men on board.3
as the Supporting such a number of people here will be expensive, I have thought it advisable to send Lieut Adams the prize master to Boston to take the orders of the Honble Board respecting them. can they be considered as...
Date: 19 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Richard Derby junr Esqr
Dr
To Cash as Agt Schoonr 3 Brothers 2
369
0
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State of Massachusetts Bay
Cr
By Sales of one half Cargo Schooner three Brothers &c at Dartmouth Octob 21. 1776
[Total]
£1207
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[To] Cash pd for advertising sales
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do pd labourers unlading & watchg nigh[tl]y p bill
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do...
Date: 22 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
By the Direction of the honle the Convention of this State I am to apply for your Assistance in procuring Men for two Callies in Hudson's River which altho fitted for Use cannot be employed for the Want of Hands. Genl McDougall hath applied to the Convention for this Purpose urging by many Arguments not only the Expediency but Necessity of putting some floating Defence above the Forts in the...
Date: 13 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
The bearer Mr Smith is a gentleman officer of the Artillery, who was taken at St Johns and likewise Dr Landon who is in company with Mr Smith; those two gentlemen with the whole garrison of St Johns I had orders from Gen'l Schuyler to march to Connecticut with a guard of 100 men ー but recd orders while at Mr Huffman's Landing from the Continental Congress to march the men to Lancaster in the...
Date: 25 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Mr Smith has delivered me your letter of the 14th instant, informing me of the sevl Actions brought agt you.
Doubt not but your conduct will on this & every other occasion be approved by the Crown; & it will give [me] the utmost pleasure, whenever honoured with your [?]lication & confidence, to become instrumental in justifying it to the Publick.
The maxim of the Law that mentions, "...
Date: 15 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
The Council have desired me to inform you in answer to your favour of the fifth Instant that they have exerted themselves to their Utmost to forward the Continental Frigates but as the State is without Cannon and Seamen it is impossible that their exertions can answer the purpose. The Ships are now at Poughkeepsie, and we hope they will soon be rigged, which is the utmost we shall be able to do...
Date: 10 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
The Delegates from this State, agreable to the request of Congress, transmitted to us a resolution of that honourable body dated the 23d of May last: by which we are required to equip such gallies as may be necessary for the defence of Hudsons river, & to direct their operations — We flatter our selves that this report passed the house in the hurry of business without the fullest deliberation...
Date: 11 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Various are the conjectures concerning the motions and destination of the enemy's fleet and the army, on board. Some think them still bound for Philadelphia, and that all their late motions have been only to conceal their real design. The last account we had of them was by a man, who we hear has since declared under oath, that on Wednesday the 27th ult'. he saw off Blue Point (about one hundred...
Date: 4 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Mr Deane in a Letter of the 28 May, after recommending an attack on the Greenland fishery & Hudson Bay Trade, desired me to communicate the following Plan to Congress vizt "To send three frigates loaded with Tobacco to Nantz or Bordeaux, equipped in the best Manner and on their Arrival hide the chief of their Guns and appear as Cruizers. Intelligence may be had every week what the station of...
Date: 23 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9