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Last week the Court of Vice Admiralty gave a decree against the Vessel lately mentioned in this Paper to have been seized by Capt. [Tyringham] Howe in a sloop of war1 It appeared she had touched at a Dutch Island and had taken on Board a few Cases of Gin and Kegs of Brandy, and a few Yards of foreign sail Duck, ー The Vessel, with her Tackle, Apparel, Furniture and Cargo, was condemned...
Date: 24 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Whereas it appears by Letters from the Committees of Correspondence in New York and Philadelphia, and by the Public Papers, that all Exportation to Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, or any part of the fishing Coasts or Islands, is suspended:
Resolved, That the above Measure be recommended by the Committee to the Merchants and Inhabitants of this Town and County; and that from this Time no...
Date: 31 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On Monday last [May 29] the lady and family of his Excellency the Governor [Josiah Martin] embarked on board a vessel here for New-York; and the same day his Excellency set out by land for Cape Fear.
Date: 2 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Quere, If one company of Soldiers is sufficient to guard old Topsail Inlet, the Town of Beaufort and the Salt Works.?
May not General Clinton after Securing his Landing at Cape fear, Send a Number of men in Transports to Core Sound in 24 hours Destroy the town of Beaufort and the Salt works, then march up And Secure Newberns &c witht opposition Secure the Numerous herds of Cattle on the Sea...
Date: 27 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
We being intrusted by your Honble Board to fit out an armed Vessel from this Port, can now inform your Honours that the Brig! Pennsylvania Farmer is compleatly fitted and man'd ready for service, and hath been so some months past only for the want of shot, which we have now got, sufficient for a Cruise and as she is so well man'd and fitted, and the whole Crew as well officers as men so anxious...
Date: 1 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Gentlemen I have Proceided for Boltemore as I was ordered2 After A Long Paseg th 2 July made th Caps Stood in for them but Soon made A Sail between us & th Caps but Could Not Tell what She was She Not making for us thought it was Posb]e S[h]e might be Afraid of us we run in As Nigh as we Dare till we Could See her of[f] Deck &made two more from A loft Afraid thay would take...
Date: 7 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I being Put in master of Sloop Diamond by Govr Coock belonging to th State of Rhode island & By him ordered to Boltemore in mariland to th Adress of misstr Sam Purviance & Co marchants thare to be Loaded by them & then to Return back to the Said State of Rode island I was Chased by th Enemy as will more Plainly apare by the Protest I hare with Send I was forst to Bare away for this...
Date: 22 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Since our last, a large Vessel from this Port has sailed, having on Board a great Number of Tories, with their Wives and Families, chiefly Scotch Gentlemen who have refused to take the Oaths of Government to this State. They are mostly Gentlemen of considerable Property, which they have acquired in America, and have it chiefly on Board, and chuse to risk every Consequence rather than acknowledge...
Date: 25 January 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Last Week a Report prevailed, that the Vessel which lately sailed from this Port with a Number of Tories on Board, was taken; since which the Account is confirmed. She was taken soon after she left the Bar, by Capt. Weeks, in a Privateer from Virginia, in Consort with a Letter of Marque Sloop, who have carried her off to the West Indies. She must prove a valuable Prize, as the Gentlemen on Board...
Date: 15 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
A few Days ago we received an Account from the Bar, that two English Brigs, one a very large one, the other mounting 10 or 12 Guns, were arrived within the Bar, and had taken several Vessels which lay there, particularly a large French Brig. There were many Vessels there ready to go out, but the chief of them escaped by running up into the Rivers again. The utmost Dispatch is making here to drive...
Date: 19 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
By a Gentleman just arrived from Charles-Town, we are informed, that one of the large three decked Ships lately carried in there by Capt. Biddle in the Randolph continental Frigate, proves to be a Prize taken by Capt. Palmer in the Privateer Nancy, belonging to Mr. John W. Stanly of this Town. It seems a few Days after Capt. Palmer took her, a large Ship of 20 Guns from Jamaica retook her, in a...
Date: 26 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9