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According to your Orders, on Wednesday the 1st Instant, I proceeded down the River in the small Boat, with four Boat men, and one Tidesman; coming up with Gloucester Point, I went on board the Schooner Isabella, where I found one John Ritchey, who called himself the Mate of the Vessel, with five more Persons. I desired to know where he came from. He told me he came from Portsmouth, New England,...
Date: 8 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On the 7th inst, as George Taylor, of Wilmington, in his own shallop, was on his passage from thence to this city, he was boarded by a party of ruffians from the King's armed schooner the Diana, commanded by Captain [Thomas] Greaves (Nephew to Admiral [Samuel] Greaves now at Boston) who brought Taylor too, and on boarding him demanded what he had on board, to which he answered only rum and limes...
Date: 13 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Since our last, sailed from this port for Boston his Majesty's Cutter Diana, Capt. [Thomas] Graves; with a large quantity of Dollars, squeezed from the traders of this port, for the maintenance of a band of --------------------
As every person that visits a place leaves a character behind him ー A correspondent remarks, that the Captain and crew of the Diana have left that of men who rode at the...
Date: 30 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The following affidavits were taken some time past, and might have been ready to insert in last Paper, but by accident were detained; however, by giving them a place in next Packet the Public in general will probably receive a satisfaction, as well as
Date: 17 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Whereas the Continental Congress did resolve in the following words, viz: "And we further agree and associate, that we will have no trade, commerce, dealings, or intercourse, whatever with any colony or province in North America which shall not accede to, or which shall hereafter violate this Association, &c."2
And whereas the Parliament of Great-Britain, in pursuance of their plan...
Date: 27 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Yesterday evening arrived here Capt. [Peter] Osborne, from London, in whom came passenger, Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Agent for Massachusetts government and this province.
Date: 6 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The House met, pursuant to Adjournment, being acquainted that with Captain [Peter] Osborne, who arrived Yesterday, came Passenger Benjamin Franklin Esq; late Agent for this Province in London.
Resolved N.C.D. That the said Benjamin Franklin Esq; be, and he is hereby added to the Deputies appointed by this House on the Part of Pennsylvania, to attend the Continental Congress expected to meet on...
Date: 6 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We hear from Williamsburg, the locks were taken from off the magazine, that the Magdalen Schooner is in York river, under the protection of the Fowey man of war, and that Lord Dunmore had fortified himself in the palace.
Date: 8 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We hear from Charlestown, South-Carolina, that on the 21st of March, at night, about eight hundred stand of small arms, two hundred cutlasses, and all the cartouch boxes, fit for service, with several bundles of match and some flints, were taken out of the public armoury in the state-house; and on the same night the public powder magazine, built about four miles from the town, was broke open, and...
Date: 10 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
By a Proclamation in the Carolina papers, we find, that the arms and powder in the public magazines in Charlestown, were removed in the night of the 21st of March, without the consent of the Governor, who is very angry.
Date: 10 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The president informed the Congress that he had put into his hands this morning a letter from [Robert and John] Murray containing a number of papers which he was desired to lay before the congress, the purport of them he did not know as he had not had an opportunity of reading them.
Ordered to lye on the table That the president look them over [and then lay them] before they are laid before the...
Date: 15 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The President after explaining the nature of the letter delivered to him yesterday.
A memorial from Robert and John Murray, of New-York, was laid before the Congress, and read.
Ordered, That it lye up [on] the table.
Date: 16 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Upon motion,
Resolved unanimously, That all exportations to Quebec, Nova Scotia, the Island of St. John's, Newfoundland, Georgia,2 except the Parish of St. John's, and to East and West Florida immediately cease, and that no provisions of any kind, or other necessaries be furnished to the British Fisheries on the American coasts until it be otherwise determined by the Congress.
Ordered...
Date: 17 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A few days since suddenly departed hence, Zachariah Hood, Comptroller of the Customs for this port. ー It is said he is gone in the ship Pennsylvania Packet, Capt. [Peter] Osborne, for London. ー This same Hood was the Person who was Stamp-Master for Maryland, from which he was driven by his countrymen, since which he was appointed Comptroller for this port, and from hence it is said he has kept up...
Date: 17 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The president laid before the Congress, some important intelligence he receivd last night, by express from New York, relative to the surprising and taking of Ticonderoga, by a detachment from Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut which was read . . .
Upon motion, Agreed, That Mr. [John] Brown, who brought the express, be called in to give an accot of the disposition of the Canadians, 2 the taking of...
Date: 18 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Mr [Patrick] Henry did me the favr Yesterday to deliver me your Letter we have as yet had nothing agitated in Congress about Trade I hope and expect that the Time for Exportation will continue as it did though I have some Expectation that it will be moved to shorten it As the Event of any Motion of that Sort ought & I suppose will be allowed to be made public you shall have early Notice ー...
Date: 18 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The committee appointed to consider what posts are necessary to be occupied in the colony of New York, and by what number of troops it will be proper they should be guarded, brot in their report, which being read was referred to the committee of the whole.
Date: 19 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
SHIPPED in good Order and well conditioned, by Stephen Collins in and upon the good schooner called the Lively whereof is Master for this present Voyage Holton Johnson and now riding at Anchor in the River Delaware, and bound for London To say
One Hundred Barrells of Flour.ー
Thirty Barrells of which is Light.ー
being marked and numbered as in the Margin,2 and are to be delivered in like...
Date: 19 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On Wednesday evening last [May 17] arrived here, John Brown, Esq.; from Ticonderoga, express to the General Congress, from whom we learn, that on the beginning of this instant, a company of about fifty men, from Connecticut, and the western part of Massachusetts, and joined by upwards of one hundred from Bennington, in New-York government, and the adjacent towns, proceeded to the eastern side of...
Date: 22 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Congress met according to adjournment and agreeable to the order of the day again resolved itself into a committee of the whole to take into their farther consideration the state of America, and after some time spent therein, the president resumed the chair, and Mr. [Samuel] Ward reported from the committee that they had come to certain resolutions respecting New York, which he was desired to...
Date: 25 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1