Displaying 1 - 2 of 2
When captain Biddle, of the Congress armed vessel the Andrea Doria, on the 29th May last took the Oxford transport, on board of which was a company of His Britannic Majesty's 42d regiment of foot, Capt. Biddle upon taking the officers out of the Oxford, only allowed them to take their bedding and a few shirts with them, and told them that by orders of the Continental Congress, all that was the...
Date: 13 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
We the Subscribers for ourselves and in behalf of the other Ship wrights, Ship joyners and Others, lately employed on the Ship Congress, beg leave to represent that your Honorable House were Pleased to Resolve on the 20th Day of December last, that the Superintendant of said Ship, Capt. Augustine Lawrence, be Desired to Pay the People Belonging to said Ship for the Nights work in which they were...
Date: 15 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8