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A curious circumstance happened here the other day, respecting a vessel from Dunkirk, having on board East India and other dry goods. Five customhouse officers went on board, with an intention to seize her; but the Captain immediately set sail, and carried them as far as the Capes, where he set them on shore, then returned, and landed his cargo.2
Date: 11 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A Caution to the PUBLICK.
Be it known, that his Majesty's armed schooner MAGDALEN, HENRY COLLINS, Esq; commander, mounting four carriage guns, besides swivels, &c. now lies moored opposite to Burwell's ferry, for the purpose of bringing to and searching all vessels going up and down James river. [Note well! masters and owners, that the King pays no costs or damages in his Admiralty courts,...
Date: 3 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
This day the libel exhibited against the schooner Wray galley, laden with 84 hogsheads of tobacco, by Henry Collins, Esq; commander of his Majesty's armed schooner Magdalen, came on to be heard in the court of Admiralty. The cause of seizure alledged was a supposed violation of an act of Parliament, in not having given bond, before any tobacco had been taken on board, that the same should be...
Date: 10 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Captain Sampson, of the snow Elizabeth, of Bristol, who was lately published as a violator of the association, and an enemy to American liberty, for refusing to take on board again his cargo of salt, which the Norfolk committee had permitted him to unload, till he could get his vessel repaired and in order for sailing, has at last found it convenient, after repeated prevarications and much...
Date: 7 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Two sloops, belonging to the Eastern Shore, were condemned last Wednesday at the Court of Vice Admiralty;1 and a New England vessel is now on the stocks, for trial.2
Date: 14 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
By Capt. Taylor, from Liverpool, there is advice that things had taken a sudden turn in the House of Commons, in favour of America; and that it was expected Lord North would resign, in a very short time.1
This morning between 3 and 4 o'clock, all the gunpowder in the magazine, to the amount as we hear, of about 20 barrels, was carried off in his Excellency the Governor's waggon,...
Date: 21 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
To the MERCHANTS and MASTERS of Vessels.
THIS day the schooner Endeavour, Michael Dyer commander, was tried and condemned in the court of Admiralty, for taking on board Indian corn without having previously given a non-enumeration bond; when the Judge was pleased to declare, that he should not consider the toleration allowed by the officers of the customs, in not requiring the bond to be given...
Date: 21 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
By some Gentlemen who came passengers with Captain Miller, we learn . . . That Lord William Campbell is appointed Governour of South Carolina, and was at Portsmouth ready to sail for his government.
The Mary, Miller, from London, and Tom, Clark, from Liverpool, are arrived in York river; the Jenny, Welch, Molly, Collins, and Sparling, Priestman, from Liverpool, at Norfolk.
His Majesty's ship...
Date: 28 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
PLEASE to inform the publick, that the Mary, Capt. [James] Miller, now loading in York river, is partly owned by Mr. John Wilkinson of London, who is likewise owner of two ships, the Lion and Brilliant, that formerly loaded in Virginia; which two ships the said Mr. Wilkinson has let to the Ministry, to carry troops to Boston, to cut the throats of all the Americans.
Quere. Is it not incumbent on...
Date: 5 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Late on Wednesday night [May 3], Col. Carter Braxton arrived in town, from a number of armed people, all men of property, led by Patrick Henry, Esq; on their march for this city, from the counties of Hanover, New Kent and King William. The intent of their coming, we are well assured, is the general alarm spread over the country by the removal of the gunpowder from the publick magazine, and to...
Date: 5 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
This day, about two o'clock, the Right Hon. the Countess of Dunmore, with the rest of the Governor's family, who have for some time past been on board the Fowey man of war, arrived at the palace in this city, to the great joy of the inhabitants, and, we make no doubt, of the whole country, who have the most unfeigned regard for her Ladyship, and wish her long to live amongst us.
Date: 12 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
It is an unpardonable crime in any man wantonly to rob his neighbour of his fortune and reputation, by a partial representation of facts.2 Your correspondent should have informed the publick that Mr. [Samuel] Gist is principal owner of the ship Mary, and has the sole management of her himself; that he built her to accommodate his friends in Virginia with freight, in a good stout vessel...
Date: 12 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On Monday last [May 15] Capt. [George] Montague's detachment of marines (nicknamed boiled crabs) took their departure from this city, and are returned on board the Fowey ー to get fat.
Date: 19 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
EARLY yesterday morning the Right Hon. the EARL of DUNMORE, with his LADY and FAMILY, Capt. EDWARD FOY, and some of his Lordship's domesticks, left this city and are gone on board the Fowey man of war, lying at York town. His Lordship's reasons for this precipitate retreat are contained in the following message, which he left behind him, and was the same day communicated to the Hon. the House of...
Date: 9 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Early yesterday morning sailed from York town his Majesty's ship Fowey, and the Magdalen schooner; which last, we are informed, proceeds to England immediately, with Lady Dunmore, and the rest of the Governour's family, attended by his Lordship's chaplain, the Reverend Mr. Gwatkin. The Fowey, we hear, carries Lord Dunmore, and Capt. Edward Foy, to Boston, on a visit to General [Thomas] Gage,...
Date: 30 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A brig lately loaded by Gibson, Donaldson and Hamilton, of Suffolk, with a large quantity of provisions, was lately seized by some of the tenders, and taken to Boston for the supply of the navy and army.1
Date: 5 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Last Sunday [July 2] the Fowey man of war returned to her moorings before York town, with Lord Dunmore and Captain Foy on board having only proceeded as far as the capes with the Magdalen schooner, which carried Lady Dunmore,and the rest of the Governor's family, immediately to England. ー And on Tuesday, the Otter sloop, Capt. [Matthew] Squires, fell down to the mouth of York river; intending, we...
Date: 7 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Monday last [July 10] arrived at York town, from the northward, his Majesty's ship Mercury, of 24 guns, John Macartney, Esq; commander, to relieve the Fowey man of war, Capt. [George] Montague; and yesterday she departed for Boston, with our good friend Capt. [Edward] Foy, who is appointed by General Gage to the command of the artillery. [Have a care Captain, of your Minden laurels; 'tis ten to...
Date: 14 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Joseph Harris, the bearer of this letter, has applied to me for protection, as the people of Hampton, and some other places, have threatened his destruction, as they have found him to have given intelligence concerning a smuggling schooner which was seized in Cherrystone creek. ー As the Fowey will soon leave the province, I think him too useful to his majesty's service to take away, he being well...
Date: 20 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
York river is now clear of men of war, and the Mercury and Otter are gone to Norfolk, on board of which last ship is Lord Dunmore. His Lordship has taken possession, we hear, of a stout vessel lately arrived from the West-Indies, belonging or consigned to Mr. John Brown, of Norfolk, which he intends fitting up (with cannon &c.) for his reception.
Date: 21 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1