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On Friday [September 22] arrived here Captain Bruster1 from London he spoke in lat. 30:43 . . . the ship Annapolis, Captain Hendricks,2 from Maryland for London, dismasted, from on board whom he took the following passengers, Lloyd Dulany, Esq; and Lady, Dr. Stuart and son, Mr. Brice, Mr. Hanson, and Mr. Diggs.
Date: 25 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Capt. [James] Robinson, of the ship Nancy and Sukey (who arrived in this port last Wednesday [October 11]) left London the 10th, the Downs the 14th, and Falmouth the 25th of August: He parted company with the Lizard frigate, of 28 guns, Capt. John Inglis, on the 22d of August, at Torbay.ー The Lizard was ordered to Quebec, and had under her convoy a brigantine, Capt. Brown, who informed Capt....
Date: 16 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Last Monday morning [October 16] before day, a transport ship, Captain Hastings, was stranded on Brigantine Beach, on the coast of New-Jersey. She had on board Capt. Duncan Campbel, Lieut. Sims, two Serjeants, and twenty-one Privates, bound from Boston, as they say, for New-York, as a recruiting party. The Captain and Lieutenant got off the Beach on Tuesday in a small boat, and are supposed to...
Date: 23 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
By a letter from Boston we learn, that the Governor of the town of Boston and Bunker's Hill1 has refused payment for the cargo he took out of the ship Charming Peggy, Capt. [Thomas] Dowman, from this port for Lisbon, taken and carried into Boston by one of the parliamentary pirates on this coast: He has however permitted her to depart in ballast (if she can get men) to England or the...
Date: 30 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
On motion made, Resolved, That the Com[mitt]ee appointed to carry into execution the resolves of Congress for fitting out four armed vessels, be authorised to call on the continental treasurers, from time to time, for as much cash as shall be necessary for the above purpose, not exceeding the sum of one hundred thousand dollars. And that the sd com[mitt]ee have power to agree with such officers...
Date: 2 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
A letter, from Genl Schuyler, with sundry enclosed papers, containing an acco[un]t of the taking of fort Chamble, being rec[eive]d and read,
Resolved, That the same be referred to the Com[mitt]ee appointed to draught instructions to the Com[mitt]ee appointed to repair to the northward.2
Ordered, That Genl Montgomery's letter and the articles of capitulation, be published by the...
Date: 4 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
By advice received on Friday from Cambridge, we learn that a vessel, said to be from Philadelphia for Boston, was wrecked near Plymouth, she had on board 120 pipes of wine, 118 of which, with the crew, are saved; Also a vessel bound from Boston with about 240 l. value in dry goods, was cast away at the same time near Beverly;1 the wine and goods are ordered to Cambridge for sale, the...
Date: 20 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2