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The Secret Committee of Congress having chartered and loaded in the State of Virginia, the Aurora,2 on Account of the Continent, and the Voyage on which she is bound being a most important one, I have it in Charge from Congress to request, you will give all the Assistance in you~ Power to expedite her Sailing, by issuing such Orders as you shall judge proper, for manning and...
Date: 12 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
We have received very agreable intelligence from the Commissioners (Dr Franklin Mr Deane & Dr Lee) of the United States to the Court of France ー They have been received with great cordiality, promised protection, and an answer to their proposals as soon as Spain has been consulted, with which Country France means to act in close concert. The french had in January 25 sail of the line ready...
Date: 7 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Immediately on my Receipt of your Letter of the 12th of March; I laid it before the General Assembly . . .
I join in Sentiments with you, as to the Utility of stationing Callies on the Eastern Shore; some of ours are designed for that Service, but our utmost Efforts have not yet been effectual to get any one completely fitted. ー We have three in the Water, partly manned, and three others ready,...
Date: 24 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
This Morning Commodore [Walter] Brooke delivered me your Letter of the 25th Inst I immediately laid it before the Council and sent for the Capt of our Ship Defence to consult on the Subject; we have had a very free Conversation with him and Commodore Brooke. I wrote you the 24th giving you an Account of the Condition of our Row Callies, it is not much mended, the forewardest of them is on the...
Date: 29 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
. . . the provisions we have taken at Sea more than compensates for the Danbury loss, since the latter was only 1700 barrels of Meat with some flour & grain, and we have brought in 5000 barrels of Meat bound to N. York . . .
Date: 13 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I This morning received information, which I beleive is not to be doubted, that on Saturday last, A large fleet consisting of a Hundred Sail, left New York & stood out to sea. Whither they are destined, or what they had on Board remains to be known. If possessing Hudson's River, should not be Genl Howe's first object I should suppose his operations will be against Philadelphia, and that this...
Date: 31 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I laid yr. Favr. of this morning before the Commee of Safety who desire you will order a proper Escort from hence to bring up all the Prisoners from Hampton as soon as may be, as to the Salt they suspend directg. the unlading it 'til the Convention shall determine whether it may be proper to risque it round to & up York River. They approve of continuing in the service Latimers Vessell you...
Date: 23 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Enclosed you have the copy of a letter from Col. [William] Woodford to me, dated 3 o'clock yesterday, since which a snow and two small vessels have gone up to Norfolk. She appeared to have a great many men on board, but was not a vessel of war. There are three others (one a brig) in the bay, this morning coming up, which Capt. [James] Barron has just gone to look after. Some little time after my...
Date: 5 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Having been lately in the Rapahanock, where numbers of Negroes came on board; and as it is not my wish or Intention to distress Individuals, I sent them all on Shore, upon condition, that they should not be ill treated or punished for running away, which I had the strongest Assurances of, from their masters that came for them; yet not withstanding these promises, I have too much reason to fear,...
Date: 13 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
"We take the earliest opportunity to Acquaint you of the Amval of a Prize Sloop1 taken by Capt. Robert Herbert2 in your Privateer Brigantine Liberty,3 the Circumstances of which as given in by the Prize Master Mr. Seth Cobb,4 are as follows, On the 5th of November the Sloop near the Rock of Lisbon on her Passage from Malaga to London laden with...
Date: 31 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Just before your Letter of the 26th. Jany. came to Hand,1 we received the Resolutions of Congress of the 19th. for establishing a Communication for transporting Provisions to the Army2 and sent the Letters to you and the Governor of North Carolina,3 from Congress, on the same Subject, by Express. The Congress having adopted Mr...
Date: 14 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11