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I embrace this opportunity, by Mr Cabot, to Congratulate you upon our Continental Vessells this day bringing into this Harbour a Ship of between Two and three hundred Tons loadened with fifteen hundred barrells of Powder, One Thousand Carbines and a number of intrenching & Carpenters Tools ー one of the Richest pri[z]es that has as yet been taken ー As Genl Washington has left so few Men for...
Date: 17 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I have not been Able to procure more than abot 50 Charldron Coal, Iapply'd to Gen Ward for liberty to take part of the White Haven Coal in this town but he tells me its not in his power to Grant my request I have wrote to Commr Hopkins agreeable to your directions. and the day his vessell arrives I will dispatch her with the Coal vessell,2 I have sent to Dartmouth in quest of some...
Date: 17 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Since I clos'd my Ltr the Boat which I sent down to Nantasket is Return'd, And David Spear Reports, that the Ship & Brig have 200 Soldiers on board, our privateers (five in number) engaged them the greatest part of yesterday at sea, but coud not Conquer them, they all left them, finding the transports Arm'd to get into Boston, precautions were taken below (as their happen'd to be a Comme at...
Date: 17 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I had the pleasure to acquaint you in my last that our Little Navy had taken a Brig and a ship, since wch they, in Conjunction with the Connecticut Brig, and our Colony Sloop from Salem have taken another Ship, the two Ships are Returnd to their Native Country, and now are an ornament to the finest wharfe in America. they are 250 & 270 tuns, one Built by Walker in this town, the other built...
Date: 20 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Dear Sir I have received your several Favors of the 6th, 12 & 16 June & note their Contents, am obliged to you for the list of the Names of the Captains appointed for the Several Ships; I am glad to hear the money is upon the Road for the Troops & Ships ー that for the Ships is much wanted, & the Continental Troops had grown so uneasy for want of their pay that General Ward had...
Date: 24 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Duty obliges me to Acquaint you with the Situation I found our Little navy in, on my entering into that Department, you Remember sir, I hinted in a former Ltr that it wanted great Regulations. I found the Captains all at variance Each taxing the other with being a thief and a Robber, and all open mouth'd again Ayers [John Ayres] for being a Coward, the Unhappy disputes among those Captains has...
Date: 1 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
These Serves Just to Inclose you Capt [Nicholas] Johnsons Rect for thirty Eight Charldron Coal 2 which I wish safe to hand and am with all due Respects [&c.]
Date: 11 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
...Capt McNeil is just arrived in town from Philadelphia, after having some Consultation with him, shall send you A List of officers ー we wait for the Cannon, pray let me Know how soon we may expect them, as also the order for Enlisting the Men & for What time2...
Date: 22 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I have the Honour to inclose You an Acct of the Ship peggy's Cargo, as it stands in her Clearance from Hallifax, I have not yet begun to unload her being all the last week at Salem Attending the trial of the scotch Vessells which are Apportion'd as follows vizt 9/16 of the ship Lord How[e] to the Schooners 4/16 to the Connecticut Brig 3/16 to this Colony Sloop. 11/16 of the Brig Annabella and the...
Date: 5 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Your favour of the 25th. ultimo. I last night Received, have the honour of Receiving my Commission under your Signature, for which [illegible] under the highest Obligations, and shall make it my chief Study to conduct with that Rectitude which may meet the Approbation of my constituents
The arrival of the Commission will set matters to rights I hope.2 it gives your freinds the highest...
Date: 8 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
...Orders are come forward to deliver all the provision that came in the Ship Peggy to the Depy Commiss[ary] and he tells me he cant redeliver any part to me without an Order for that purpose, Will you please to send pr Next post the Necessary directions; Since the Grand prize wch was sent to portsmo; has been sent in here by two [New] york vessells a Ship from Granada with 400 hds Sugar 430...
Date: 12 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I have the pleasure to Acquaint You that yesterday a Small Brig was sent in here taken by the Hancock & Franklin. she was going from St. Augustine to Bristol, her Cargo Consists only of 3600 Ran deer Skins, and 6840. Ib Indigo2 - two other of the Schooners are Abroad, the Lynch will sail to morrow. she came in two days ago After a Months Cruise without Success, having Nothing...
Date: 18 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
...The Committee for Fortifying the Harbour of Boston are examining the Cannon in and About Boston to see if they Can possibly Spare me sufficient for the Twenty four Gun Frigate,2 Agreable to the order of Council. I am in great hopes shall be able to get the loan of a Sufficient Number for that Ship untill they can be obtained from Philadelphia Let me intreat you to hurry the Cannon...
Date: 19 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I had the Honour to write you by the last post in which I hinted that I had Sent Capt [Samuel] Tucker with fifteen hands to portsmo to bring the prize round to Boston, Tucker proceeded so far as Salem where he met Mr Tracy who assur'd him he was at portsmo the day before in Company with Mr [Joshua] Wentworth and [John] Langdon, who were determined to keep the vessell there and had libell'd her;...
Date: 29 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Mr William Bant Informed me that you directed him to pay into my hands such monies as he had from time to time occasion to remit to Philadelphia upon your Account, and to take Bills for the same upon yourself, he has accordingly paid me One Thousand Dollars for which have given him a Bill, which I hope will be Agreable: I forgot to mention in my last that Capt Manly sett out for Philadelphia on...
Date: 4 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I am under the disagreeable necessity of representing the Base conduct of Capt Daniel Waters in the Armed schooner Lee, who has lost two months meerly from an Obstinate perverse temper, he Arrived here from a Cruise Abot the last of June. I paid the vessell off, the portledge bill Amounted to £ 445. .6. . he was the best Officer'd and mann'd of any vessel in the Service; his first Leiutenant's...
Date: 16 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I have the honour to transmit to Congress the enclosed Resolve of the General Court passed the 18th. Instant, relative to the fitting for the Sea, the Continental Frigate Hancock of 32 Guns, now at Newbury Port. If this Frigate with the other at the same Port could be expeditiously fitted out, it is very probable several of the Enemy's Cruizers, which have much infested our Coast, would be soon...
Date: 23 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
By last post I inclos'd to Mr [Robert] Morris the State of the Case of the Condemnation of Ship peggy. as she is Claim'd by the former Owners who have Appeal'd to Congress and beg'd the favr of Mr Morris to give it into your hands. I have only to say there are sundry persons of Credit in town who have made their Escape from Hallifax which saw the process &. were in Court at the trial and know...
Date: 30 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I Beg leave to inform you that four prizes are lately sent into this State vizt. two to plimouth & two to this port by one Capt Paine of Charlestown South Carolina. he fitted his privateer at Providence on the Credit of the State of So Carolina but on Account (it is said) of the Continent, and on his return to that State found that port shut up by the Enemies Ships, if he belongs to the...
Date: 7 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I have the pleasure to acquaint you with the arrival of the Ship Alexander at Dartmouth with abot 3000 Quintals fish sent in by the providence Sloop Capt [John P[aul] Jones this intelligence I Recd Last Evg. in a Ltr from Messrs Watson & Spooner from Plimouth.2 its the first line I've recd from Mr Watson since I been in this department tho I've wrote Sundry Letters to him urging...
Date: 21 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6