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I have now before me your several Favors of the 27th August. 23rd of September and 14th of October last. And Note their contents. The first acknowledging the Receipt of a Remittance from Captain John Walker at Barcelona for £400 Stg. one half on Account of my Brother Gerard and the other half on my own account. for which have made you Debtor, and have given you Credit for £52.6.11 Amount of a...
Date: 11 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
On Tuesday last [December 6] his Majesty's Ship Swan,1 commanded by Capt. James Ayscough, weighed Anchor for Boston, by Way of the Sound.
We hear that at a Meeting of the General Committee of this City and County, two Sub-Committees were appointed to superintend the Sales of two Cargoes of Goods arrived here since the first Day of December. And that it was the opinion of the Committee...
Date: 12 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in tis: In the former state, a man is governed by the laws to which he has given his consent, either in person, or by his representative: In the latter, he is governed by the will of another. In the one case his life and property are his own, in the other, they depend upon the pleasure of a master. It is easy to discern which of these two...
Date: 15 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
Some Ships fitting out at the Port of Liverpool about 7 Weeks since, could not have Permission to take on board either Gunpowder, or any Kind of Guns, Swords, &c.
By a Gentleman who left Quebec about 20 Days ago, we learn, That the Reports we have had here of the Canadians and Indians being to be raised and sent to act against the People of Boston, &c. is entirely groundless; and that...
Date: 19 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
The Printer from the best Authority can assure the Public, that the late Seizure of Arms, Lead and Powder, made by the Collector of this Port, was solely for this one sufficient Reason ー that there was no Cocket or Clearance for them, under any Mark or Denomination whatever.1
Date: 2 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A day or two after this order was received2 one of the Custom House officers discovered ten chests of Arms, three Boxes of Lead and one Barrell of Gun-powder on Board a Vessel bound to Rhode Island. It has been found on enquiry that these arms were lately imported on board the ship Lady Gage Captn [Thomas] Mesnard and it is said, were shipped at London as Hardware; but there was no...
Date: 4 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Several letters by the last vessels from Great Britain and other parts of Europe, inform us, that immediately after the King's proclamation issued, prohibiting the exportation of arms and ammunition from Great-Britain, two men of war were ordered to the Texel in Holland, in order to prevent the transportation of those articles in English bottoms to America.
Date: 5 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
As we thought it would be agreeable to our readers to know the particulars of what has passed in this city, since the seizure of arms, &c. lately made at this port, for want of Cockets; we have been at pains to collect the following facts which may be depended upon.
As soon as the seizure was made, the ten cases and three boxes were carried to the Custom-House,1 and the barrel of...
Date: 5 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Yesterday Week [January 1] arrived at Rhode-Island, a Ship of 20 Guns, from England, with 200 Marines on board, bound for Boston.1 This is the Ship we imagine was lately seen off by Capt. Harriot.2
Date: 9 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Thursday last [January 12] his Majesty's Frigate the King-Fisher, Capt.[James] Montague, went up to Turtle-Bay to lay there for the Winter Season.1
Date: 16 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We hear from Boston, that Capt. [Tyringham] How[e], Commander of the Cruizer Sloop, is appointed to the Command of his Majesty's Ship Glasgow, vice Captain [William] Maltby, dismissed; Mr. [Francis] Parry, of the Preston, succeeds to the Cruizer, and Mr. Grenville1 is appointed Lieutenant to her.
Date: 30 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A Council ー All present except [Daniel] Horsmanden & [Charles] Apthorpe
Lt Govr [Cadwallader Colden] asked what he should do on a Scotch Ships being driven from the Port2 ー We got him to state his Case & Question ー Board shy ー Clerk wrote something ー He after finding us shy retired to state his Querie He returned & left us at [John] Watts's Request suggested by me ー We kept...
Date: 8 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Present Lt Govr [Cadwallader Colden] [Daniel] Horsmanden [John] Watts [Roger] Morris [William] Smith [Hugh] Wallace [Henry] White [William] Axtell [John Harris] Cruger [James] Jauncey
The Govr laid before us Capt James Montigue's Letter of this Day in substance that he had put Men on Board the Ship ー That the Capt was not there ー That the Mate ask'd no aid ー That a Sloop was close to her with arm...
Date: 9 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Ship James, Capt. Watson, which arrived from Scotland within the Hook at 9 o'Clock in the Morning, the second inst. has neither landed her cargo, nor entered, as she did not arrive in the Time allowed by the Association of the Congress for importing Goods from Great Britain or Ireland, &c. She has been at Anchor since Saturday last [February 4] in our Bay, accompanied with a boat, on...
Date: 9 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Ship James, Capt. Watson, arrived at Sandy-Hook the 2d Instant, from Glasgow, with Coals, and a few Dry Goods on board; but as she came into Port after the Time limited by the Congress for us to continue our Trade with Great Britain,1 she has received some Necessaries, and Yesterday proceeded for the Island of Jamaica, with all her Cargo.
Date: 13 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
To the PRINTER.
Mr. [James] Rivington having in his last paper promised, that in a future one, would be published, a narrative of the conduct of Capt. Watson, of the ship James, lately from Glasgow; and as I conceive, from the general tenor of the publications in his paper, that if therein the narrative should appear, it will give very little satisfaction to any of the parties concerned, or to...
Date: 14 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Yesterday the Beaulagh Murry's Ship2 arrived here from London loaded with goods. She lays at the Watering place a boat of Observation is alongside of her with about 20 hands all armed to see that no goods are taken out of.3 the Owners of good had a meeting last night to consult what to do. the People in general are determined she shall go back
Date: 19 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Murray, Sansom & Company and William M. Bussell to the New York General Committee, February 20, 1775
Gentlemen We being the sole owners of the Ship Buelah from London do propose (with your approbation) that the Ship be regularly entered at the Custom House, In which case we pledge to you, our word and honour that no part of the Goods shall be Landed in this Province but the same shall be forthwith reshipped and sent off in some other Bottom. If it shall be thought more satisfac tory we consent...
Date: 20 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Lieutenant Governor Cadwallader Colden of New York, to Vice Admiral Samuel Graves, February 20, 1775
Sir You will perceive from the Public Prints that the Assembly of this Province refuses to adopt the measures of the Congress, & takes the lead towards a recon ciliation between Great Britain & her Colonies, Tho this be a true sense of a great Majority of the people, & of men of the best Fortunes, Yet we have among Us a set of violent Spirits of the lowest Rank, and desperate...
Date: 20 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On last Thursday night [February 16], the ship Beulah, Captain William M Bussell, arrived at the Watering place, about three leagues from this city, in nine weeks from London ー The Pilots, we are informed, were ordered not to bring her up, lest her being in the harbour should give uneasiness to the city. The same night, a sloop with some members of the Sub-committee of Observation and other...
Date: 23 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1