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Last Sunday Afternoon Lieut. Calcott, of the Merlin, a British Ship ofWar, which lay a little without the Harbour of Newport, came in a Barge, with a Flag, to that Town: The General Assembly of this State being thensitting, he was conducted to the State-House, where he delivered to his Honor the Governor a Letter and Declaration from Lord Viscount Howe, of which the following are authentic Copies...
Date: 27 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I received a Letter from Capt Furneaux of the Syren dated October 11th last proposing, as he informed me with your Lordships Permission an Exchange of a Number of Prisoners he then had on board his Ship. I wrote to him that I accepted of the Proposal and would send the same Number of Prisoners to Block Island to be exchanged I have since been told that Capt Furneaux was at that Island about the...
Date: 20 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7