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Gentlemen: Being informed that you had come to a Resolution that no Provisions shall be shipd out of this Colony without first obtaining Permition of you, In consequence of which Order we think it our Duty to acquaint you that the Ship Peggy, Capt [William] Barron, had on Board before Resolve was made about 7400 Bushels of Wheat, with which she was Cleard and Sail'd as far as Cunny Island which...
Date: 28 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
This morning I have seen a printed resolution of the Honourable Board, dated the 29th instant, by which I am permitted in future (agreeably to former directions) to supply His Majesty's ships on this station "with all necessaries, as well fresh as salt, and that such supplies be sent by me to the Governor's island, to be taken from thence on board of the said ships."
In pursuance of which, I...
Date: 31 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We, the prisoners of his Majesty's ships the Phenix and Savage, humbly implore of your Honours to allow us a proportion of provisions to live upon. The keeper, McCleef, gives us but sixpence sterling per day; we are almost perished, for it is impossible for us to live at this rate. We cannot say, gentlemen, had your Honours been notified before, you would make us a sufficiency of provisions;...
Date: 22 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
To the Honourable the Provincial Congress for the Colony of New-York, in the City of New-York, now convened.
The Memorial of John Hylton, Master of the Ship called the Betsy and Polly, now lying in the Harbour of said City, humbly showeth:
That your Memorialist, on the 31st day of May last, obtained from Mr. Robert Ray (who officiates as an officer for that purpose) a permit to take on board the...
Date: 11 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Capt. William Thompson informs, that he left London the 13th of August & left Tarbay on the 19th ー That it was generally reported in England that Troops were to go from Ireland to Boston; That five Regiments were the Number mentioned ー That Transports were actually sailed to take in those Troops ー That it was supposed the Troops were ready as they had been collecting from April ー
That a Train...
Date: 10 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2