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In my Letter of the 7th instant, you are informed of my having your favour of the 27th of June, and of the proceedings of our Assembly on its contents, and on the earnest request of the Massachusetts Congress to augment our Troops in the public Service. ー In our hurry it was omitted, that near the ending of the session, It was Resolved That two Vessels of a suitable Burden be immediately fitted...
Date: 18 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Governors Letter You will receive by the Express, had introduced the Action commenced at Charlestown on Saty Morng last, & stopd to wait further Intelligences having then (a few hours since) a very broken Acct of the Matter, he will himself add I suppose what further is just come by Cap Elij. Hyde of this Town, the sum of his Information as I recollect it, is, viz about 1500, of the...
Date: 20 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I have recd from Col. [Benjamin] Hinman & others very favourable Accounts of the Disposition of the Canadians towards the General Cause, and their Desire that our Army may penetrate into their Province &c Suppose you are fully acquainted with their Intelligence. I shall therefore only trouble you with some Information I have recd from Capt. John Bigelow a Gentleman of Harford who was...
Date: 17 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The affair of the two armed vessels (being a principal occasion of this meeting) was taken up and largely discoursed. Letters received from a number of gentlemen from N. Haven, Middletown, Wethersfield 8c relating to it read, &c. Capt. [John] Deshon, Mr. [Nathaniel] Shaw and Capt Giles Hall were present on that account and discoursed with &c., and they retired; and on further...
Date: 24 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I received your Letter of Yesterday respecting the Alarm occasioned by the Arrival of three Men of War at New London ー In Answer to your Quere ー must say ー I think it prudent to keep up good Guards ー with Injunctions to keep the strictest Look out ー any Mischief to happen to the Flour ー or Molass[es] at the Land'g ー must be very unhappy ー it is very probable their Design is partly to intercept...
Date: 28 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
At a Meeting of the Governor and Committee or Council of Safety this day
The committee appointed at the last meeting about the armed vessels &c. having performed the journey and business to which they were directed and instructed made a full verbal report of their journey, viewing, conversation and doings concerning armed vessels &c., what they have viewed, the terms on which they made be...
Date: 2 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
After further consultation about the armed vessels &c., the following bill and resolve was prepared and pass'd, viz:
Whereas the General Assembly of this Colony at their session in July last, resolved that two armed vessels of suitable burden be immediately fitted out and be armed with a proper number of cannon, swivel-guns and small arms, and furnished with necessary warlike stores and well...
Date: 3 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Mr [Benjamin] Huntington, one of the committee appointed at the last meeting, reported that he had not yet found a very proper and suitable small vessel to be fitted out as a runner and cutter &c.
After much discourse about the matter of arming the same &c., he with the other committee [were] directed to make further inquiry kc. and report.
Cap. [Robert] Niles (appointed at the last...
Date: 7 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Mr [Benjamin] Huntington of the committee appointed for that purpose respecting a small armed vessel &c., reported, that having taken pains they are not able to find any suitable for the purpose, except one belonging to one Hancox &c. of Stonington, but not to be chartered but may be bought for £200, as the lowest sum &c., her sails and riggifig not fit for the service; and the...
Date: 14 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Voted, That an order be drawn on Pay-Table Committee for £200. in favor of Benj. Huntington Esqr. and Cap. Jno. Deshon, to pay the purchase of the schooner Britania, for the use of the Colony as an arm'd and intelligence vessel, which this Council had judged most for the benefit of the Colony to purchase at that price, and appointed said committee to purchase of Edward Hancox Jno. Denison 5th...
Date: 17 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A letter received from Messrs. [Titus] Hosmer, [Ezekiel] Williams and [Giles] Hall, about the armed brig fitting at Middletown &c., containing a nomination of sundry persons for officers &c., and proposing that the bearer, [William] Warner (going to Providence) may inlist a gunner there, as they cant obtain one, and also sailors, &c. It is agreed that he may do so, if not disagreeable...
Date: 24 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Mr William Warner, the bearer hereof, hath undertaken to go mate on board the Brigantine Minerva, burthen 113 Tons, an Armed Vessel ordered to be fitted out for Defence of our Coasts Capt Giles Hall, to be comander. ー This young Gentleman, son to Capt Oliver Ring Warner of Newport, now residing at Middletown, coming on business to Providence and Newport is instructed to procure a good Gunner for...
Date: 24 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Capt. Jona. Lester's account for building the row-galley Shark, amounting to £861 16 6½ in whole, having been inspected and examined by a sub-committee at Hartford, is now allowed. He had received by orders from this Board £100 and £300, and £4 of B.H. [Benjamin Huntington] Esq. The balance being £455 5 11½ is ordered now to be drawn for. And order given, delivered said Lester.
Voted, That an...
Date: 2 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Letters of Marque &c. prepared for Capt. [Eliphalet] Thorp, present, part owner of the privateer Broome.
Col. Saml Mott laid in his account for reconnoitring the harbours of N. London and Stonington &c. and the fortifications, places for fortifying, in surveying and planning, in attending the works &c.,
105 days of 3 ½ months at £ 12
£
42 0
14 weeks board and horse keeping, at...
Date: 3 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Cap. Theo. Stanton, of the galley Shark, exhibited his account of many sundrys for and about said galley, of £ 95 9 6, and [James] Tilley's bill for rigging &c. £34 2 2, total £129 11 8, and is allowed, and ordered that said sum be drawn for. Order given.
Voted, That an order be drawn on the Pay-Table for Capt. Theo. Stanton for £ 100, to be by him improved in purchasing provisions and...
Date: 4 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Mr. Job Winslow, builder of the galley Crane, laid in his account and bill, and the same was examined, adjusted and allowed, being in the whole £1013 6 10; he having received by two drafts £700, the balance being £313 6 10, is ordered to be drawn for. And order given accordingly.
Delivered said Winslow.
Date: 5 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
You are hereby instructed carefully and diligently to attend the duty of your station and department, to keep a careful watch and look-out for any and every hostile ship or vessel which may be hovering about our coasts, take any that you can, give every signal and intelligence of and concerning them in your power and for the advantage of the trade and friends of the country. You are also to take...
Date: 6 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Voted, That Capt. Niles be allowed one and a half per cent. on his purchases and payments of his crew &c. on board the schooner Spy.
Date: 9 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Cap. [Jehiel] Tinker of the galley Crane, present, applies for directions about many things, and thereupon
Voted and Resolved, That Capt. Tinker of the galley Crane take two three-pounders at the old fort at N. London for said galley, to be delivered
him by the keeper thereof; that he receive eight swivel guns, as soon as they can be obtained; that he receive ten muskets to be delivered him by...
Date: 10 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Draw on the Colony Treasurer for the Sum of four Hundred and seventy seven Pounds six shillings and nine Pence in Favour of Capt Robert Niles of the Schooner Spy, it being the Ballance of Said Schooners Account on the 8th of June [la]st, and also for two Hundred Pounds more for the Schooners use from that Time forward and to Render his Account thereof ー
By Order of the Govr & Council of Safety
Date: 10 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5