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July 1776
Friday 5
Anchor'd in St Mary's River
(A M) Heeled the Schooner & paid her Starbd side with Brimstone & Turpentine & blacked the Bends, also paid her sides with Tar Came on board the Boat from Cumberland with fresh Beef for the Schooner's Co people rather sickly under arms as before.
Fresh breezes & Clear W[eathe]r Loosed [sails] to dry Called all hands to Quarters...
Date: 5 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Gentlemen This serves to inform you that there is now lying off the Mouth of St Mary's River, between Seventy and eighty Sail of Vessels ー I am now at Leonard Town in my way down, with part of the 6th Battalion under my Command, when I received an Express from Colo Barnes (who is now at St Inagoes Neck with the Lower Battalion) informing me that this Morning Ten Boats full of men Landed on St...
Date: 15 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I arrived down here on the 15th Instant with about One hundred of the Militia, where I found Capt Beall with part of his Company and one Company of Colo Barnes's Battalion ー about day Break yesterday we were Visited by a Row Galley or Row Gondola Carrying 5 Swivels on each Side and a Six pounder in her head and another in her Stern, they Rowed Close along side our Centinels and not a Man to be...
Date: 17 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Genl [Andrew] Lewis recd a Letr yesterday evening from Majr Price who commands at St Marys2 the Majr Says he has 400 Men & 4 peices of Cannon I of 9 lb 2 of 4 lb & 1 of 3 lb that at two Oclock thursday Morning he sent 100 Men over to the Island who he ordered to lay an ambush till Dunmores Men came on the Island to get Water which they did every day & go of[f] in the eveng...
Date: 27 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I have the pleasure of forwarding [torn] circulating News with us with the [torn] that G. Hows Army are certainly moving from the Jerseys ー & its conjecturd their aim will be our Bay & a conquest of the E Shore ー the Virginia Frigate has been compleately man'd by a very warm press ー the Defence has broke ground & will be down the Bay in a few days we have a Ship from Patuxent loaded...
Date: 20 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I am just arrived from Savannah and fully intended waiting upon your Excellency with the utmost Dispatch, but Matters of the last consequence to my little Settlement lays me under an absolute necessity of being here a few Days.
The Governor and Council of Georgia have been under Arrest (by orders of the present Rulers of the Province) these five Weeks past and I had it in charge from the Governor...
Date: 13 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
July 1777
Sunday 20
St Marys [Azores] N2° 9 Lgs
AM at 4 saw a Sail to the NW, gave Chase Tked Occasionally, at Noon the Chase SW, about 4 Miles — Mod: 8c Cloudy, [PM] fired 11 Shot at the Chase, at 2 she hrought too, an American Schooner, from North Carolina,2 bound to Cadiz, sent a Mate & 6 Seamen onboard her, brought the Schooners People onboard the Ship —
Date: 20 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
July 1777
Monday 21
St Marys [Azores] N58°W 15 Lgs
at 11 AM. gave Chase to the Southward. —
Light Breeze & Cloudy PM at 3 sent 2 Boats after the Chase, a Sloop, at 8 the Boats brought her too, an American from South Carolina,2 bound to Cadiz, sent a Midshipman, and 6 Seamen onboard, and brought the Sloops People onboard the Ship —
Date: 21 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9