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Gentn Your favor of the 13th we only received the 23rd inst; the delay was occasioned by y[ou]r letters being delivered to a member of our Board, who resides on the Eastern Shore, which through hurry of business for Some time escaped his memory.ー
We have ordered our Commissary of Stores at Baltimore Town to deliver one Ton of Powder to Messrs Lux, Proviance & Stewart for proving the Cannon...
Date: 25 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
This serves to Inclose you Capt Gidn Cra[w]fords & the French Merchts Accots for sales and Returns of the Cargo of the Brigg Happy return in 56 days from Nantes, he brings Accots of Capt [Samuel] Avery in the Schooner Sally at Nantes & Capt [Joshua] Bunker in the Schooner William at Burdox, fited by Us on the Contenentl Accot Capt Craford recd abot 12000 Livrs of Capt Avery ー which is...
Date: 1 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I have the honour to be favour'd with yours under the 7th Octor by last post only to which I beg leave to reply the Bay Ship I formerly mentioned with the Cargo is sold she being under the direction of Mr Langdon Agent for the New Hampshire State — I am inform'd he has purchas'd her with the principk part of her Cargo with a design to off er her to Congress no doqbt you have heard from him on...
Date: 11 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Your favo'r on behalf of the Honbl Secret Committee of the 25th Ult. I Recd two days since by Colon! Bartlet [Bartlett], incloseg the Resolves of the Honbl Congress Respectg the [Marquis of] Kildare's Cargo 2 on Rec[ei]pt of which, I immediately Set the Sailmakers at work on the Tents, and the Tailors on the few wollings which were suitable for Soldiers under waistcoats; and gave...
Date: 14 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
This serves Just to Inform you of the Arrival of Capt [Samuel] A very in the schooner Salley from Nantes wch place he left the last of Sept has brot but 26 Bal(e]s of Cloth & 16 m[illegible]ys of Salt, a Considerable of wch he supposes to have melted on his passage Acation'd by his Limber post getg out — The Invo[ice] he Del[ivere]d you have Inclos'd but no Acct yet Deld have not as yet had...
Date: 22 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Gentlemen Since my last under the 15 Instant 2 I have been at Salem and have made a strict scrutiny into the affair of the Sloop James Capt Gillis late master and find that the owners of the privateer wch retook her 3 did not know she was fitted on account of the Continent, the letter which you supposed to be wrote by the Salem Committee to Eddington 4 was wrote...
Date: 26 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I hope I may not be thought officious when I mention from good authority that Comodore Hopkins designs as soon as the Ice begins to make, to haul his frigates up to providence I take it when that takes place them cannon wou'd serve a good purpose if they where shifted on board the Hancock, as it is possible the Comodore may be supplied by the time the river opens.
. . . I am now come to the 22d...
Date: 21 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Your Several favo'rs of the 4 & 5 Dcemr P Mr [William] Turnbull & [Abraham] Livingston Iv'e Just Recd to which I beg leave to Answer, that it was not Possable to purchase the least Article of Clothing in this State, as everything of that Sort, which has been bro't in, or made, in this place, has been bought up for the use of the Soldiers Raised for the Service of the Continent I find by...
Date: 6 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
I have the honour of receiving your favour by Mr Brown [John Browne] Lieut of the Boston Frigate & shall strictly conform to your orders therein contain'd by using every exertion in my power to give the Frigates dispatch, I rejoyce the Hancock is like soon to have her Ordnance on board 2 — I yesterday return'd from Dartmouth wher I purchas'd the finest ship in America, she is only...
Date: 9 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
I have the honour to inclose you an Account of goods sent forward to the Army six weeks since, out of the Livelys Cargo. On the Arrival of Messrs [Abraham] Livingston & [William] Turnbull we consulted on the most Eligeble method of furnishing them Gentlemen with the remaining part of that Cargo wanted by the Army, and concluded to sell at Auction, Accordingly we began the publick saie — Mr...
Date: 17 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
I have transmitted the Resolve of Congress of the 5 February to the Commissioners at Paris as you will see by the Copy of a letter I wrote them Yesterday. You should have sent me half a dozen Authenticated Copies of the Resolve — it went by the Fly to the Randolph which will carry it to Martinico A Copy Certified by myself goes by the Independence & you had best send me some more for other...
Date: 19 December 1777
Volume: Volume 7
I have the Honour to acquaint you that in consequence of an application from the Council of the State to me to provide a proper vessell to carry some dispaches to France I Furnish'd her in a proper manner for so important an Errand, and yesterday she sail'd after being detain'd three days by Contrary winds.2 l have sent Capn John Adams Master of the paq. A man of a Vivid Sprightly make...
Date: 4 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Your honble Chairman Mr Morris, informs me you never Received an Account [of] my transactions Respecting the Sloop James, Capt Gillis that was taken afterwards retaken [and] Carried into Salem, I wrote you fully on that subject under the 16th Decr 2 and informd you that some months before the Committee wrote to me on that matter, the Sloop arrivd at Salem and Cargo was sold, But tho...
Date: 9 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
We have just received a Letter from William Bingham Agent for the United States of America in the West Indies dated St Pierre Martinico March 23d 1777 Informing that he had shipped to our Address by the Sloop Republick, Allen Hallet Mr Twenty five Cases of Muskets, being part of a large supply of those Articles lately arrived there on account of the United States which will be forwarded to the...
Date: 21 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Since our last, a Copy of which is inclosed, Mr Hodge is arrived here from Martinique, & has brought safely the Papers he was charged with. He had a long Passage & was near being starved. We are about to employ him in a Service pointed out by you at Dunkirk or Flushing. He has delivered us three Sets of the Papers We wanted. But We shall want more, & beg. you will not fail to send...
Date: 6 February 1777
Volume: Volume 8
. . . The Ship which I am now fitting out on the public accot will I hope ,be soon ready to sail, having been obliged to give her new Masts and to recaulk her entirely she is not so forward as I at first expected, but you may depend that no time shall be lost 2 Her Cargo will consist of Linnens Woolens Hosiery Cordage Anchors and sail Cloth, these latter Articles assorted for two...
Date: 11 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I Received a Latter from Wm Bingham Esqr from St. Peters Martineco, advising of his shipping to my Care Seventeen Brass Cannon Field-pieces, Shott, Carriages, Powder &c. by Capt Lamb,1 who is Safe arrived at Boston, and desires I would retain them in my hands untill I Receive your further orders respecting them—I have given...
Date: 5 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Accept my unfeigned and most grateful thanks for the very singular honor conferred upon me by your Orders of 9th. May last, in my behalf, to the Commissioners in Paris.1 The preference which Congress then gave me, without my knowlidge or solicitation,—and which you have expressed in terms so much to my honor, hath made the deepest and most lasting impression on my Heart.—but...
Date: 22 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11