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Last Friday and Saturday [December 9 and 10] all the cannon belonging to Fort George, except 4, were carried to Providence, with the shot, &c. from whence they may be easily conveyed into the country, to meet the Indians and Canadians with which the colonies are threatened.
The Tory faction in this town, the beginning of last week, grinn'd horrible a gastly smile, and prophesied there would...
Date: 12 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
The week before last Thomas Gilbert, George Chace, Jaheel Hathway, Abiel Terry, Benjamin Grinnell, and two of Col. Hathway's sons, having proved themselves great enemies to their country, fled from Freetown to Boston, to take shelter under the wing of Gen. [Thomas] Gage. We hear one of the above Tories hung up his coat and shot one or two bullets through the skirts, then put it on to wear to...
Date: 26 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
The fore part of last week a man belonging to the Hind frigate, in this harbour, fell overboard and was drowned, but was taken up, and on Thursday last [January 5] was carried ashore at Goat-Island and buried; one of the people who went ashore, and was left to take care of the barge, turned the barge adrift, and then came off in the boat belonging to Fort George, and notwithstanding he was fired...
Date: 9 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Last Saturday [February 3] Capt. Manchester arrived here from London, but last from Salem, and was treated very rudely by the officer and people from the Rose man of war, who went on board his vessel, and insisted on going into the hold among his hemp with a light.
Date: 6 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
One day last week-arrived here a sloop from Nantucket, which, on her passage, was fired upon three times, off Seconet-point, by an officer in a boat belonging to the sloop Swan, James Ayscough commander: The third time he fired, the shot went within six inches of Mr. Starbuck's and Mr. Fish's bodies; they went along side of the Swan; and informed Capt. Ayscough of the behaviour of his officer,...
Date: 13 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
This harbour, and Fogland ferry, is very narrowly watched, by the Rose frigate, and the Swan sloop.
Date: 20 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Honoble. sr Since my Wrigting the Lines on the 21th. by Mr. Philips maney Insults and Thretts are and have ben made a gainst those Soldiers Which have Taken out arms and train and Exersize in the Kings name, and on monday next the Captns. muster at the South part of the Town, when we have Grate Reason to fear that thousends of the Rebels will attack me: and Take our Lives or the Kings arms or...
Date: 23 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We have received an exact list of those deluded wretches, who have been prevailed on by Thomas Gilbert, of Freetown, to take up arms against their country; whose names we shall expose properly, in a short time, if they do not renounce their wicked principles and practices very soon: and it is hoped the good people of this town will carefully avoid trading with any of those vile enemies to...
Date: 27 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Yesterday morning as the ship Rose was moving further into this harbour (for what reason is not certainly known) she ran upon the north-end of Goat Island, where she lay till night.
We hear one of Col. [Thomas] Gilbert's sons, and one or two others, came down from Freetown on Saturday night [April 1], in a small rowing boat, and went on board the above ship; perhaps those persons are Jonases.
It...
Date: 3 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Last Wednesday morning [April 19] the point ferry-boat had two shot fired at her from the tender of the ship Rose in this harbour, one of which went between the post-rider and the ferryman.
Date: 24 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Last Wednesday [April 26], as Mr. John Brown, of Providence, merchant, was going from this town to Providence, in one of the Packets, the Packet was stopped, by order of Captain [James] Wallace, of the ship Rose, and Mr. Brown taken on board the ship Swan; soon after which another packet was stopped as she was going up. These Packets had on board a quantity of flour, which Mr. Brown had purchased...
Date: 1 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The week before last Capt. [John] Linzee, of the Falcon sloop of war, took two sloops on the coast between this place and the Vineyard, without the least reasonable pretence that we can learn; upon which the people at the eastward manned out two other vessels, retook the sloops, and carried them into Fair Haven, in Dartmouth last Saturday se'nnight [May 13] with 14 of Capt. Linzee's men, three of...
Date: 22 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
May 1775
Tuesday 23
Moor'd in Rhode Island Harbour,
sent a petty Officer and 3 Men in the Sloop Collector to Boston2
Date: 23 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Saturday Night last[May 20] four armed Vessels, well manned, were sent from Boston to an Island near Weymouth, in order to take on board a Quantity of Hay that had been procun:d for the Use of the ministerial Army ー They were discovered early on Sunday Morning, when a Number of the Inhabitants put off for the Island in a Gondola, who drove the Enemy on board their Vessels, burnt a large Quantity...
Date: 27 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Last Wednesday night [May 24] the sloop Collector, Capt. Nicholas Webster, sailed from this port for Boston, with a quantity of salt provisions, for the use of the standing army there; & a number of sheep; but for whose use these were is as yet uncertain. It is reported, that said sloop & salt provisions were taken into the custody of one of the ships of war here, and sent by her to...
Date: 29 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Webster arrived at Newport with a Load of Beef Pork &c on Friday the 19th from New York said to be bound to Nantucket. All the Provisions on Board he says belonged to William & Francis Rotch excepting 70 Barrels of Pork consigned to himself which he sold to George Rome. All the Circumstances attending this Affair concur to give the strongest Suspicions that these Provisions were purchased...
Date: 30 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
June 1775
Friday 2
Moor'd in Rhode Island Harbour
A M sent 2 seamen in the Ship Peggy with Provisions to Boston,2
Date: 2 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Last Saturday [June 3], George Rome having bought a quantity of flour &c. and put in some Stores on the Point, supposed for the Use of the Enemies of this country, a number of people collected together, & insisted on having the flour given up, which was accomplished before sunset, notwithstanding said Rome had the effrontery to insult the town, by getting a number of marines on shore,...
Date: 5 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Last Tuesday [June 6] a schooner from Philadelphia, loaded with provisions, bound to Nantucket, was brought in here by one of the men of war's tenders. We hear the provisions, in this vessel, belong to near 70 poor men at Nantucket, and the chief their families had to depend on for a considerable time to come.
Last Saturday [June 10] Capt. Cahoone, of this place, arrived here from Virginia, in a...
Date: 12 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
It is voted and resolved, that the letter written by His Honor the Deputy Governor to James Wallace, Esq., commander of His Majesty's Ship Rose, and Capt. Wallace's answer, be published in the next Newport Mercury, and Providence Gazette.2
Date: 16 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1