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Middle District.
NOTICE is hereby given, That Libels are filed before me, against the following Vessels, their Cargoes and Appurtenances, viz.—In Behalf of William Day, Commander of the Ship General Mifflin,1 and all concerned therein, against the Brigantine Fame, of about 150 Tons burthen, James Coates, late Master: In Behalf of William Rogers, Commander of the armed Brigantine...
Date: 1 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
For SALE,
The Schooner LEE,1 burthen 75 Tons, a prime Sailer, has run all the War as an armed Schooner. Inquire of THOMAS STEVENS at Manchester.
Date: 1 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Tuesday Evening arrived the Ship Mars,1 from France. By whom we learn, that the Continental Frigate Raleigh, has safely arrived there, having taken two Sugar Ships;2 which had also arrived.
Sunday last arrived at a safe Port, a Ship from Surrinam, with 450 Hogsheads Molasses, some Sugar, dry Goods, &c.
Tuesday arrived a Ship and Snow from France, laden with dry Goods.
Date: 15 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
The following is an account of the treatment that the Continental officers, taken in the frigates Hancock and Fox, and lately returned fiom a six months imprisonment, met with at Halifax, together with those officers mentioned in our last.
Being taken prisoners, on the 7th and 8th July last, by the Rainbow and Flora, they were carried directly into Halifax; and those taken by the Flora frigate,...
Date: 5 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Certain Intelligence is received, by the Owners of the private armed Ship Revenge, James Tracy, Esq; Commander, of her safe Arrival at Bordeaux, in France, and all Hands on board well, notwithstanding what our implacable Enemies in New-York and elsewhere, have published, of her being captured by such and such a Ship, belonging to the King of Britain, and carried into such a safe Port.
Date: 12 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Yesterday se'nnight, arrived here, the armed Sloop Adams,1 EDWARD BEEKE,2 Commander, from a Cruize, all well. On the 28th of January, in Lat. 35. 18 Long. 65. 10 spoke with the Sloop Catharine, David Arnold, Master, from Providence, bound to the Cape,3 all well. January 29, in Lat. 36. 20 Long. 67. 10, spoke with a Sloop from Newbury-Port, —— Boles Commander, out...
Date: 19 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
WHICH will be next Tuesday, at 3 o'clock P.M. on the wharf of Joshua Ward, Esq; by applying to Mr. John Dutch, Agent for the privateer Trenton,1 viz. 3 most excellent double-fortified CANNON, with carriages, tackles, crab-handspikes, cartridges, shott, ladles, worms, spunges, rammers, waddings, tampions, aprons, lanthorns, match-rope, priming-horns, and wires, compleat.
ALSO,
Swivels,...
Date: 19 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
NOTICE is hereby given, That a Libel is filed before me, in Behalf of Capt. Marine,1 Commander of the armed Schooner Congress,2 and all concerned therein, against the Sloop Elizabeth, of about 70 Tons burthen, James Littlefield, late Master. Which Vessel, with her Cargo and Appurtenances, is said to have been taken and brought into the Middle-District aforesaid; and for the...
Date: 26 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Arrived at Dartmouth [Bedford in Dartmouth], some Time last Week, the Sloop Providence,1 John Rathburn,2 Esq; Commander, with a valuable Prize Brigantine,3 mounting 14 Guns, cut out of the Harbour of New-Providence; where he landed with 28 Men, marched up to the Fort, in Sight of 300 Men under Arms, took Possession of it; from thence, went to the Prison, released...
Date: 5 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Last Monday Afternoon1 arrived here, the Continental Frigate WARREN, of 32 Guns, under the Command of John Hopkins, Esq.; which a few Weeks ago got out from Providence, in the Course of which she took two Prizes; one a Ship,2 taken in Sight of Bermuda, from Whitehaven bound to Philadelphia, laden with Salt and Dry Goods; the other, a Snow3 from St. Eustatia, her...
Date: 26 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11
The Raleigh1 and Alfred2 sailed from L'Orient the 29th of December, in Company, and proceeded to cruize off the Coast of Africa; from thence crossed [to] the Windward Island[s], and from that to Boston. Saw no English Vessel during the Cruize, except one Sloop, with Wines, which they took off Senegal Bar, from an Anchor,3 until they come to the Windward...
Date: 9 April 1778
Volume: Volume 12
Four Prizes arrived last Thursday at a safe Port,1 to the Southward of this, viz. A Ship, a Snow, a Brig, and a Sloop. The Snow2 is the Prize the Warren Frigates3 took on her Passage round from Providence; but the other three we cannot learn who captured by, what laden with, or where from.
Since our last, arrived in an Eastern Port, a Prize Schooner, taken by a...
Date: 16 April 1778
Volume: Volume 12
Monday last arrived here, a French Letter of Marque Ship of 20 Guns, laden with dry Goods, &c. &c.
Last Tuesday arrived in this Port, from France, a Frigate mounting 36 Guns, belonging to his Most Christian Majesty.1
Saturday returned into Port, a Privateer Brig of 14 Guns, lately commanded by Capt. Chew, of Connecticut,2 who was killed in an Engagement with a 20...
Date: 7 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
THIS is to certify, That Capt. Peter Pollard, of Boston, late Commander of the Sloop Independence, now stands guilty of the following attrocius Crimes.— In Cape-Charles, Virginia, he feloniously plundered the effects of a Gentleman of that Place (whose Character as a Friend to America, is indisputable) of the Amount of fifty Pounds, in stealing of Sheep, Bedding, and other Articles, not at...
Date: 21 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12
CANNON SHOT
Of various Sorts and Sizes, may be had at JOSEPH CALLENDER’s SHOT STORE, at the lower End of STATE STREET, adjoining the Long -Wharf; where Agents and others may be supplied with the sorts they want, by giving timely Notice.— Cash given at said Store for refuge1 Cannon Shot, and all Sorts old Cast-Iron, and Wrought-Iron, to such only as come by it honestly.
N. B. Left in...
Date: 25 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12