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I have lately been favoured with a Copy of Lord Dartmouth's circular Letter to the Governors of the respective Colonies upon this Continent, wherein he Informs them, that His Majesty has thought fit, by his order in Council of the 19th October 1774, to prohibit the exportation from Great Britain of Gunpowder or any sort of Arms or Ammunition & that it is his Majesty's Command that they take...
Date: 30 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
We have Nothing new here except Captures from the British Trade, which are likely to increase ー Our own Navigation is almost Wholly turn'd into Privateering, so that their Cruizers can take little or Nothing from us but empty Hulls, while their Ships come fast to us richly laden'dー
It is regretted among us that the American Fleet is not in greater For- wardness. We have two fine Frigates built at...
Date: 17 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I have the Honour to transmit You this by Capt John Adams who goes express by order of Congress with dispatches for the Honble Commissrs at the Court of France, with orders to deliver them himself. The secret Committee were desirous of making as valuable a Remittance as might be, to put the schoonr in a set of Ballast, But it happens we have no Oil, pot Ash or any Article at market, wch we...
Date: 25 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7