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In consequence of the Cannon being mov'd from the Fort att New Port to Providence, we Yesterday Remov'd ours into the Cuntry, but I Lement the Unhappy Situation we are in for want of Powder, we are universally without any, for our Town Stock in this Town we have not a barrell and they know not ware to git any. I think if the Asembly is Cal'd they should Purchase 4 or 5 hundred barrells. If they...
Date: 14 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
I wrote you Yesterday by Mr Clements, have only to add that I have drawn on you in favour of Sam Belden in Two Orders to the Amo of £248, 8, 5 pay 30 Days Sight and hope by that time you will be in Cash to pay them. You must Send me Eight or Nine Casks of powder by the first opper. If I Should want Four or Five hundred Casks do you think it may be had in St Eustatia or Curraso. Should be Glad you...
Date: 15 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
Last friday [December 9] all the cannon belonging to Fort George at Newport, except 4, were carried to Providence, with the shot, &c. from whence they may be easily conveyed into any part of the country, to meet the Indians and Canadians, with which the Colonies are threatened: ー And on tuesday last [December 13] the cannon belonging to the battery in this town, were removed into the country...
Date: 16 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
Yours 19th Ins is now before me & am sorry to find that the underwriters on the Hawk2 have not paid you for I Really want the Money. I wrote you by Capt. [Edward] Chappell & Rogers, hope they have both arrived & that you will be able to send me the money for the Draft on Mess [Thomas & Isaac] Wharton, also Negociate £800 Currency to be pd in Boston. I expect [Eleazer]...
Date: 29 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
I Recd yr p Macerone2 wth the Cash This is just to let you know that I intend as soon as (Edward] Chappell Returns that he will go on board the Macerone for West India & will call on you for one hundred bar Super fine flouer & two hundred half Johannises3 which should be glad you would have Ready for him. Hope you have been able to get the 100 bar of pork at the...
Date: 15 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Gentlemen I Recieved your 13th p Capt Chappel also of the 18th by post came to hand. I have now by the Sloop Macaroni, Shipt a Cargo of Melasses wich is very Good hope you'l git 2s for it. You must certainly send me Two hundred half Joaneses and Fifty barrels, of Super Fine Flower att least. I shall send the Sloop to the West Indias as Soon as she Returns, & beg you'l dispatch her as Soon as...
Date: 24 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A few days agoe our Mutual Friend Thomas Mumford shew me a Letter from you recomending to send a Vessell to Cohassett Rather than Salem with West India Goods for the Boston Markett.2 I have by bearer James Angell in the Schooner Thames Shipt a Cargo of Brown Sugars Consisting of Sixty Seven hogsheads and two teirces, which Sell for my Accot They Just now came in from Hispaniola, and I...
Date: 15 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir the foregoing is a Coppy of what I wrote you by Capt [James] Angell who Sail'd this day with a Good Wind & hope he will arrive safe ー I gave him orders to Sett his Jack at his foremast head that incase you had any fresh orders you may have an opportunity of conveying them on board before he comes to anchor In about three weeks I expect another Cargoe of Sugars which I shall send round...
Date: 16 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
by our Frind Capt John Deshon who was in a Vissell of mine last Summer I find that you assisted him in the Sale of his Cargo of Mules,2 and the Obligations were left in your hands, as by your Rect to the Amount of Twenty Five hundred & Seventy Seven pounds 8/5 and Accot in my favour ー I should be Glad you would Collect the Money in Good Bills, of Exchange pay in London ー Should...
Date: 6 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Dear Sir, I Recived a line from you at St Eustatia and find. that you had Sold your Cargoe and was to Return back to Guadulupe hope You'll Make Money by it ー I Effected the Insurance you wrote for in N York and now Intend, to Mention to the Underwriters, that You did not Procede on the Voyage no further then St Estatia and that I think it Reasson able the Risque now must be from St Estatia to...
Date: 6 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I returned yesterday from Newport & Provedence I assure you thay are very dilligent in getting in readiness, but I am much afraid that we have not a Sufficentcy of powder have you any lately arrived or do you Expect any in. let me know in yr next & what its sold for.
Date: 8 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Agreable to your Desire I have Sent up Eighty Three Barrels of Powder to Colo Jed. Huntington2 Containg about 108 Each the Remainder is in this Town I hourly Expect Thirty Two Barrels more that I have Account of the Capt having it on bord the Remainder of what Moneys was in My hands Capt [William] Packwood left with Capt Jno M'Shibbin who is in One of my Vessels in the West Indies...
Date: 25 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Bearer in the Sloop Macaronia has on Board fifty One Hogsheads and Eleven Terses of Mollasses and four hogsheads of Cocoa which Despose of for my Accot and hope Y oul Save the Duty's in the Cocoa I have Drawn on you in favour of James Tilley for One Hundred & Eighty Pounds York Currancy & in Favour of Thomas Allen for Eighty Pounds York Currancy pay Twenty Days. I want Five Hundred wt...
Date: 25 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I wrote you by Colo [Eliphalet] Dyarr [Dyer] and Mr [Silas] Dean (our Colony Deligates to the Contential Congress) Desireing you would let them have what Money they should have Occasion for, to the Amount of Four or five Hundred Pounds Since that I received Your Favour by the Post and Am Sorry to hear You Could not Procure the Lead ー and Observe Your Saying that Melasses was in Demand I now Send...
Date: 5 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I Received yours 11th Instant and you may Depend on my Supplying you with the Quantity of Powder you Mention Vizt Six Hundred half Barrels ー I am now Getting a Vessel in Readiness and Intend she shall Sail in a few Days I shall Call on You Next Week. I Am Sir [&c.]
Date: 15 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Received the Within Contents frm Wm Thompson to be Laid out in powder
Date: 29 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The bearer Mr. Jno Hale apply'd to me for a Quantity of Powder for the use of your Province, but am sorry to inform you, that article is very scarce in this Colony and not to be purchas'd; what I have imported is on Government accts and by letters from N. York that I have lately Received, am very certain its not to be had in that Province, Neither in Rhode Island.
I expect a large Quantity, but...
Date: 2 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A Gentleman who was in Boston at the Time of the above Engagement, 1 and whose Intelligence may be relied on, informs, that Ten Regulars were buried there last Sunday Evening [May 28], who were killed in the Engagement. 'Tis said they had about 30 killed, in the whole, and a greater Number wounded. Seven Horses and several Cattle were also killed.
During the Action the Regulars were several Times...
Date: 3 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Yesterday John Mackkibbin in the Sloop Black Joke with 10000 Gallons Melasses, 15 Thousand wt of Coffee, 26 Thousand of Sugar Sailed for Phila Capt [Edward] Chappell is on Board as a Pilote and I have given him Orders to take the Sugar and Coffee on Shore without paying the Duty's and if it Can be Avoided not to pay any for the Melases for I think its time to lay that Matter Aside for the present...
Date: 12 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I hope you will Arive Safe, and Land Your Cargoe Agreeable to my Directions without Any Difficulty. I have Desired Messrs [Thomas and Isaac] Whartons to put on Board Three Hundred Barrels of Super Fine Flower and fill up the
Sloop with Long Staves, if you Can make Out so as to Clear your Vessel for Hispaniola at the Custom House before the 20th Instant, for After that time I Suppose no Vessel Can...
Date: 12 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1