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Should be glad you will let me know by the Post whether your General Assembly have appointed any Court to try Prizes agreeable to Orders of Congress ー as it is time we Should do something with the Prizes in New London.
Your answer will oblige Sir Your Friend at Command
Date: 30 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Please to Send me by Captn [Dudley] Saltonstall as good an Account ofthe Guns and Stores left in your hands as you can get, and likewise should be glad you will send me an Account of your Schooners Cargo, which Captn[Nicholas] Biddle retook2 as the Officers blame me for delivering her till she was Tryed ー should be glad to Satisfy them that they will receive no Injury by that Step ー
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Date: 5 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I receiv'd yours, and desire you will supply Captn [Hoysteed] Hacker with every thing that may be necessary to enable him to get with dispatch his Vessel ready to Cruise2 ー
As to purchasing the Schooner you best can tell, as you had directions in procuring the Vessel ー My Instructions is to Mann her and Order her where to Cruise ー I have no Orders to buy, or to direct any other Person...
Date: 9 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
A Ship arrived here yesterday of 8 Iron & 8 wooden Guns, of 360 Tons, taken by Captn [James] Munro in Lattd 33 ー Longd 552 The Prize Master informs that a day or two after he left the Privateer he saw a Brig and a Sloop both Armed he is certain the Brig was Captn Harding3 ー they both stood for the Ship, till he knew the Brig when he hawl'd up his Courses & hove too ー...
Date: 24 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Inclosed you have a Copy of a letter which Mr Updike has received from his Friend in Milford ー The Vessel therein mentioned is one we Charter'd on the Continental Account and on her return was taken by a tender; but before she got into port was retaken by the Schuyler Captn [Charles] Pond and carried into Long-Island, there they tooke out her Cargo, consisting of Powder, Arms, Salt Petere &...
Date: 30 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Please to pay the bearer Mr Samuel Lyon my Secretary; all my part of Prize Money in your hands, (which is One twentieth of the Captors part) — And his receipt Shall be your discharge for the Same, from Sir [&c.]
Date: 20 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Sir Captn Whipple late of the Columbus Sent for his money from New Hampshire and Boston, and has divided it out to his People — and as Mr Thomas Mumford has a power from Capt Hinman his Officers and People I think it will be best for the Service that you pay him the Captors part of what Capt Hinman's last Prize 2 came to (all except my part which is one twentieth) — and his Receipt...
Date: 4 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
It appears by Lieutt [David] Phipps's Account from Captn [Elisha] Hinman that he is not paid for his Service longer than from the time he went to do duty onboard the Cabot, but as he was in the Service and did duty onboard the Providence Sloop before I think it will be right for you to pay him what may be due to him from the time he Enter'd into the Service untill the time he went onbd. the Cabot...
Date: 15 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8