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You doubtless have by this time heard that the Asia Ship of War, Ct [George] Vandeput, has fired eight and twenty cannon, besides grape and cannister shot, into our City in consequence of our People's moving some cannon from off the Battery by virtue of an order from the P[rovincial] Congress. Our People returned the salute with their musquetry, by which means one of their People was killed and (...
Date: 4 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
As I was on Long Island at the time of the disturbances in this city occasioned by the citizens removing in the night of the 23rd of last month Twenty one peices of Ordnance, nine pounders, that were mounted on the Battery under Fort George I transmit to your Lordship copies of the correspondence that passed between the Mayor of the City and Captn Vandeput of his Majesty's Ship Asia on the...
Date: 5 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Dr. McClean of this city, attending at the door, requested the sense of this committee whether he be at liberty to supply the ship Asia with drugs and medicines as he has heretofore done.
Agreed, That Dr. McClean be at liberty to supply the said ship with drugs and medicines in the same manner, and under the like restrictions that Mr. [Abraham] Lott is directed to observe in supplying the said...
Date: 5 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Ordered, That Mr. Thomas Grennell be, and he is hereby appointed a commissioner, (in addition to the number heretofore appointed,) to superintend the erecting and finishing the fortifications on Hudson's river, in the Highlands.
Ordered, That Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Esq. pay to Mr. William Bedlow, one of the commissioners, for erecting fortifications on the banks of Hudson's river, in the...
Date: 6 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
A letter from the commissioners for erecting fortifications in the Highlands, requesting the instructions of this Committee with regard to the plan and expense of the said fortifications.
Mr. [William] Bedlow, one of the commissioners, attending at the door, was called in and informed that it was the sense of this Committee to have a conference with the commissioners, and the engineer who is...
Date: 7 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Friday Afternoon a Sloop with Dispatches from General Gage, lying near the Man of War, sent her Boat ashore with four Men and one Woman, who being observed by some of our People, they were all taken Prisoners and carried to the Guard House; the Woman was discharged, but the Men are detained for further Examination. The Boat was stove to Pieces on the Beach near Greenwich, and then burnt.
Tuesday...
Date: 7 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Will you do me the favour to contradict a paragraph in Mr. Holt's paper, in which he says that the man of war had stopped several vessels with provisions, and that we had set our own price upon whatsoever we chose to take?2 The truth is, that we have not taken or bought any sort of provisions from any vessel, except three hundred oysters which I bought yesterday, and for which I gave...
Date: 9 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
It being represented to this Committee that Mr. William Becker, a citizen of this city, is confined in irons on board the Asia ship of war;
Ordered, That Messrs. [Isaac] Roosevelt and [James] Beekman wait on His Worship the Mayor, and request him to demand the immediate discharge of the said William Becker, and to assure Capt. Vandeput, that unless such discharge be immediately made, this...
Date: 9 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Ordered, That Messrs. Jacobus Van Zandt, Henry Remsen and Lewis Pintard, be a committee to employ a vessel and despatch her with proper directions to purchase gunpowder and arms. And,
Ordered; That those gentlemen be supplied with four thousand pounds, by Peter V. B. Livingston; Esq. Treasurer of the Congress of this Colony for that purpose, and that a certified copy of this entry be a sufficient...
Date: 12 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
William Ritchie requests permission from the Committee of Safety to employ a small vessel commanded by himself in carrying provisions and such articles as may be wanted at the camp from this port, to be landed at Dartmouth, Sandwich, or such port as he may find most safe and convenient.
Ordered, That Mr. William Ritchie be at liberty to employ a small vessel commanded by himself in conveying such...
Date: 13 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
On Monday the following well known enemies to American Liberty, transported themselves from this city, in the Rebecca and Frances transport, Duncan Campbell, commander, in the service of Gen. Gage, for Boston, viz. Jonathan Simpson, merchant, and Samuel Waterhouse, addressers of Gage and [Thomas] Hutchinson, Doctor Benjamin Loring, late of Philadelphia, appointed house surgeon to one of the...
Date: 13 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
[Insert the Committee of Safety of New York's certificate of September 7 in behalf of Captain Isaac L. Winn]
As by the manner of expression in the above certificate, it may possibly be thought by strangers to the transaction, that the article inserted by the Printer in his paper, was the ground of the suspicion raised against Capt. Winn, and occasioned the pursuit, detention and examination of...
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The committee unanimously agreed to consider their order of the twelfth inst. appointing a committee to procure gunpowder and arms, and after some time spent therein, they agreed to continue the said order with the following amendments, to wit:
Ordered, That Messrs. Jacobus Van Zandt, Henry Remsen and Lewis Pintard be a committee to employ a vessel and despatch her with proper directions to...
Date: 15 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
A report of the resolves of the committee of Kingston, in Ulster county, of the fifth inst. and of the report made thereon to the said committee on the sixth inst. were read and filed, and are in the words following, to wit:
At a meeting of the committee of the town of Kingston, on Tuesday the fifth day of September, 1775:
Egbert Dumond reported to this committee that he was credibly informed...
Date: 18 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
His Worship the Mayor of the city of New-York, attending at the door, was called in, and informed this Committee that His Excellency Gov. [William] Tryon sent for him yesterday and informed him, that he received a letter from Lord Dartmouth, informing him that orders had been given to the commanders of His Majesty's ships in America, that in case any more troops should be raised, or any...
Date: 19 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Govr Tryon after dinner at my House, informed me that . . . Orders are issued to the Navy Officers to consider such Towns in Rebellion, as seize the King's stores, raise Works, or Maltreat the Governors, and he authorizes me to make this Public, that the Citizins may be on their Guard, to preserve the City from the Indiscretion both of the Mob & the Men of War. ー He had, he said, given a hint...
Date: 20 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Last Tuesday evening [September 19] the Man of War stopped the Amboy stage and took out an Ensign Tiley, of Gen. [David] Wooster's troops,. and a box. The former had the care of the latter, which was supposed to contain dispatches from Congress; but herein they were baulked. The papers relate only to an estate belonging to a prisoner of Gen. Wooster's. It is said Mr. Tiley is in irons. I can't...
Date: 21 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Ordered, That the sloop Francis, William Ritchie master, belonging to Mr. William Lowther, bound for Edenton, in North Carolina, be permitted to sail with her lading on board, as reported to this Committee.
Ordered, That Mr. Isaac Day be permitted to go on board of the ship Asia to deliver a letter to Capt. Vandeput.
Date: 21 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
A letter of John Weatherhead, dated the 17th September, put under cover, directed to this Committee, was read and filed. He therein mentions sundry reports, which he says have been propagated and are injurious to his character, and declares that said reports are not true.
A certificate of Capt. Vandeput, dated the 3d inst. certifying that John Weatherhead did not give him the intelligence that...
Date: 22 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Joshua How, Samuel Thompson and Bodwell Hews being severally and duly sworn upon the holy Evanglist of Almighty God depose and say, that on or about the 12th of July last, they were each of them at a place called the New Slip in New York and observed a Barge belonging to the Asia Man of War come up the Slip and it being proposed to take the Barge and Crew, Ensign [Edward] Tyley [Tilley] opposed...
Date: 23 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2