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It is voted and resolved, that all the cannon now at Fort George2 (excepting two eighteen-pounders and one six pounder) and all the powder, shot and stores, thereto belonging (excepting so much powder and ball as are sufficient for the cannon to be left at said fort) be immediately removed to the town of Providence; that Col. Joseph Nightingale,3 be, and he is hereby,...
Date: 8 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
We have Authority to inform the Public, that the Right Honourable the Earl of Dartmouth1 has written circular Letters to the several Governors on the Continent, signifiying his Majesty's Command, that they take the most effectual Measures for arresting, detaining and securing, any Gunpowder, or any Sort of Arms or Ammunition, which may be attempted to be imported into the Colonies;...
Date: 10 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
Tuesday Se'nnight all the Cannon belonging to the Battery at New London were removed into the Country.
Date: 24 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
Since our last Captain [Elisha] Warner arrived here from New York ー A Quantity of Small-Arms, &c. lately arrived there from England, the Property of two Merchants of this Town, having been put on board Captain Warner, were seized and detained by the Officers of the Customs.1
Saturday last [December 31] the Hind Frigate, of 20 Guns, arrived at Newport from England.
Date: 7 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The latest Accounts from England, by Capt. Cochran,1 arrived at New York, are, that Orders have been given for the seizing every Ship, of what Nation soever, employed in conveying Arms or Ammunition to the Americans.
Date: 14 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Friends of Government (so called) at Marshfield, having applied to his Excellency General [Thomas] Gage for a military Force to protect them, we hear 120 Soldiers, with four Officers, were sent from Boston for that Purpose a few Days since.
Date: 28 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Rose Frigate and Swan Sloop, with the Tenders, are very vigilant in searching almost every Vessel that arrives in the River. ー Three Seizures have been made by them within a few Days past.
Date: 25 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The latter end of the week before last, 56 fireams, bayonets &c. with several casks of powder, were delivered out of a scooner, in our enemies service, to Thomas Gilbert, of Freetown, and his infamous associates, to counteract the measures adopted by the colonies for the preservation of their liberties.
Date: 25 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We hear a Number of Fire Arms, with a Quantity of Ammunition, have been sent from on board a Man of War at Newport, to Col. Thomas Gilbert, and his Tory-Adherents, at Freetown.
Date: 1 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
At VIII o'Clock this morning an Express arrived in Town from Providence, with the following Lettersー
Providence April 19th 1775
10 o'Clock at Night
Sir
Having received Intelligence that our Breth[ern] in Mass: Bay are attacked by a body of regular Troops and that many of our Friends are slain. ー These are to request your Honor that you will be pleased to call the Genl....
Date: 20 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Yesterday Mr. John Brown, one of the principal Merchants of this Town, being at Newport, as an Agent for this Colony, appointed by the General Assembly to purchase Provisions, for the Use of this and your Government, was seized upon in a Freight or Packet Boat coming to Providence. He was carried and confined on Board a Man of War lying in Newport; and about 300 Barrels of Flour, in that Packet...
Date: 27 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Mr Joseph Brown, and Mr Moses Brown of this Place, principal Merchants, and Gentlemen of Distinction and Probity, will wait upon you with this Letter ー Their Brother Mr. John Brown of this Town Merchant, was two Days ago forcibly taken at Newport in a Packet, as he was coming from thence with a Quantity of Flour, which he had purchased there. He was carried on Board a Ship of War and confined,...
Date: 28 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On Wednesday last [April 26], as two of our Packet-Boats were returning from Newport, without about 300 Barrels of Flour, the Property of Mr. John Brown, Merchant of this Place, (who was on board one of them) they were taken into Custody by the Men of war stationed there, ー and one of the Packets, with Mr. Brown on board, and 200 Barrels of Flour, we hear has since been sent to Boston.
The Troops...
Date: 29 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Mr. John Brown, of this place, merchant, whom we mentioned in our last to hav'e been taken in a packet boat, and sent to Boston, has been released by the Admiral and General and returned here on Wednesday night [May 3].
Date: 6 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We hear that two small Vessels having been lately seized by the Men of War at Newport, and fitted out as Cruizers, for the Purpose of robbing and plundering the Sea Coast, in order to supply their Fellow-Ruffians at Boston with fresh Provisions, the Inhabitants of Dartmouth dispatched an armed Sloop to take them, which was accomplished; one of them struck without making any Resistance, the other...
Date: 20 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Saturday Night last[May 20] four armed Vessels, well manned, were sent from Boston to an Island near Weymouth, in order to take on board a Quantity of Hay that had been procun:d for the Use of the ministerial Army ー They were discovered early on Sunday Morning, when a Number of the Inhabitants put off for the Island in a Gondola, who drove the Enemy on board their Vessels, burnt a large Quantity...
Date: 27 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Webster arrived at Newport with a Load of Beef Pork &c on Friday the 19th from New York said to be bound to Nantucket. All the Provisions on Board he says belonged to William & Francis Rotch excepting 70 Barrels of Pork consigned to himself which he sold to George Rome. All the Circumstances attending this Affair concur to give the strongest Suspicions that these Provisions were purchased...
Date: 30 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A Number of the inhabitants of Plymouth, we learn, went a few Days since to Nantucket in Whaleboats, and took from thence 800 barrels of Flour, the Property of a Merchant at Dartmouth, and which it is supposed was intended to be smuggled into Boston, for supplying the ministerial Army.1
Date: 3 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I Expected to have Seen you Ere I Determin'd on Suing Capt [James] Wallace, but on findg. that my not prosecuting him was one Argument made Use of against me & indeed all the Brothers that we are Toreys, and that we Were in League &c. with Genl [Thomas] Gage & Consequently with Capt Wallace & others under him, & I having allways Determind to prossecute Either here or in London...
Date: 7 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sunday last [June 4] the schooner Pelican, Capt. Tucker, arrived at Marblehead from London in Ballast, and brought Dispatches for General [Thomas] Gage and Admiral [Samuel] Greaves which were immediately secured by the Committee of that place and sent to the Provincial Congress at Watertown ー The contents of them have not yet transpired.
Date: 10 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1