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Whereas, on or about the seventh day of October last, a certain small sloop, said to be the tender of the Viper sloop of war, was taken with three persons on board, in Barnegat Bay, and is now detained in possession of the Committee of the county of Monmouth, in New-Jersey: Said Committee, in pursuance of the direction of the Provincial Congress, do publish the following descriptive advertisement...
Date: 2 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
We hear from New-Jersey, that on Monday last [January 22], the people in the sea port towns; having note that a store ship 1 with coals, porter, cheese, &c. for the murderingarmy in Boston, was arrived at the Hook, a number of men in a small vessel at night boarded, took and brought her into port, where they have unloaded her.
Date: 25 January 1775
Volume: Volume 3
The store ship mentioned in our last, taken by the people in New-Jersey, is called the Green [sic Blue] Mountain Valley, burden about 400 tons, commanded by Captain [John Hamilton] Dempster (brother to a member of Parliament of that name) her cargo consisted of 120 chaldrons of coal, 100 butts of porter, 300 sacks of potatoes, 10 pipes of sour crout, four four pounders; some powder and arms; and...
Date: 1 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Whereas a certain Sloop called the Polly and Ann, destined for Boston, and laden with provisions, &c. for the Ministerial Troops there, was lately stranded upon Manasquan Beach, in the Colony of New-Jersey; and whereas the Committee of Safety of said Colony has taken possession of said Sloop and cargo, committing them to the care of the subscribers, and permitting them to deliver to the...
Date: 1 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
The sloop Maccaroni, Capt. Hunting, is arrived at the east end of Long-island from the West Indies: About 16 days since the sloop overset off Cape Hatteras, by which accident the Captain and one of the men were drowned; the whole crew were overboard, but all of them except the two before mentioned recovered the vessel again, when she soon righted. 1
Capt. Lowndes from St. Croix,...
Date: 15 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3