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Sir We the Subscribers Inhabitants of the Town of Newport in the Colony of Rhode Island deeply impressed with a grateful Sense of the Support You have on all occasions given to His Majesty's faithful Subjects residing in this Town, and fully convinced that our Peace and Security has for some time past been owing in a great measure to your Attention to His Majesty's Service and spirited Conduct...
Date: 1 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I have put with this a Coop to your address, which contains 6 Geese, 12 Ducks, & 12 Fowls, which please do me the favour to accept. ー I sent you a Sheep in June, but by some mistake it was delivered to General [Frederick] Haldiman[d]. ー Your late acquisition of Sheep & Bullocks &c. will, I apprehend, render these articles plenty with you at present ー Eggs & Butter are scarce...
Date: 26 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir I am informed the Assembly of your Colony among many extraordinary Treasonable Acts have passed one for Striping the Islands of their Stock with intent to destroy the Kings Service and his faithful Subjects ー If in their Madness and Infatuation they should attempt this, it will become my duty to destroy every Vessel and Craft we can meet upon the Water of which I beg you will inform the Town...
Date: 28 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
May 1776
Sunday 19
[Off Newport, Rhode Island]
At 3 A M, Weigh and at 7 Do abrest of the Light house, almost Calm
Moderate Breezes & Clear, At 6 P M, Nowman's Land, Bore NBW 5 Leagues, at 7 Do Saw a large Ship, a Stern standing after us, At 8 Do Sounded 25 fathom, At 10 Do, saw the Ship a Stern comeing up fast The Cabot bore away to the Eastward, & we made sail to the South'd, at 11...
Date: 21 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
The bearer Captn Israel Ambrose2 who has a Letter of Credit, from Messrs Brown, Arnold, Salter and Wall ー if it should Suit your Convenience to Supply the Captain with any Goods or money, you may depend, that the above Merchants are Men of Estate and Veracity, and you may Safely give them Credit for such Sum as they Requireー
As to News there is none more than you will find in the...
Date: 14 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I am honored with your Lordships Instructions of the 22d, and also with your Letters of the 26th and 27th of last Month, and shall do my utmost to obey your Lordships Orders and fulfill your Intentions in every particular. The Senegal and Tryal arrived the 2d Instant in the Evening, and the next Morning the former returned to her Station; Captain [Roger] Curtis finding by Lieutenant Brown's...
Date: 11 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Since my last Letter of the 13th Instant, I have received from Providence Fifty two prisoners, among whom are six Masters of Merchant Ships and some Passengers, and also the Mate, Boatswain, and four Seamen belonging to the Betty Transport. As the Cartel Business is to pass through my Hands, I have opened a Book for the purpose, and Mr Ayres is not now to go to New-York. He came here the 19th in...
Date: 23 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
I wrote to You about the 30th of Octr last from New York, since which have not heard from You or any of my freinds, The report of all Letters from America being open'd in England at the P: Office, confines me in saying much about myself. I am still on board here, and the Captain if possible continues more & more kind and civil to me, This Frigate a most desireable sea Boat in all respects has...
Date: 10 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
March 1777
Friday 14
[Moored off Newport, Rhode Island]
heard several Guns up the harbor 7 AM saw a large fire on the other side of Connanicut ½ past 10 sailed up for Providence our Tender as a Flag of Truce wt a number of Prisoners
3 PM arriv'd H.M.S. Juno & a prize
5 fir'd a Gun &made the Greyhounds Sigl to speak a Vessel coming in which prov'd to be a prize to the Unicorn ー...
Date: 15 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8