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Having some Business of much Consequence to my private Concerns totransact in England, which requires my Attendance there, I propose, withthe Approbation of the Council of Safety, undertaking a Voyage thither bythe first convenient Opportunity that Offers, intending to return again to my Family in Maryland as speedily as my Affairs will permit, and shall they willthink myself much obliged to the...
Date: 6 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I have been waiting all this day for the return of the boat with the remainder of the Governors baggage, but to my great astonishment perceive she is still along side the wharf; And as I Yesterday received a letter from Mr [Charles] Carroll on behalf of your board, am apprehensive she is detained. If that is the case it will break off the Truce that is now subsisting between his Majesty's ship...
Date: 25 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
We are just now informed by Mr [Jesse] Hollingsworth that he has your Instructions to unload the Brig Fortune and discharge her from the public service ー As she has been long loaded and the whole time fully manned and held in readiness to sail and of course her disbursements very high, We are desirous to know upon what terms, she is to be discharged; for which purpose our Mr. [William] Lux, who,...
Date: 29 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
According to desire I beg leave to acquaint you, that I am providing Materials for going on with the Rowe Gallies, & am satisfied to build them on the same terms with Mr Stephen Stewart. I would have done myself the pleasure of waiting on you now, but that Material business carries me to Philadelphia, but at my return, will do myself that honour, Please to let me know per return of Bearer,...
Date: 2 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
As the Enemy's Fleet has been driven from their Station and their Forces obliged to abandon Gwyn's Island, and we are informed they will endeavor to possess themselves of some Place on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, We have thought it prudent to given you the earliest intimation, thereof, A Battery of 2. 18 Pounders played on their Ships and in a few rounds forced them to retire, 4. 9 pounders...
Date: 13 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
At a meeting of the Committee for this County and District, a Resolution was entered into to write to your Council of Safety, and appointed me for that purpose.
I am informed that your Commanding Officer or Officers in each County have it not in their power to raise the Militia (on any occasion) under his or their Command, without application to your Council of Safety and instructions from them...
Date: 18 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
...you was so Obliging as to Mention us as proper persons to undertake Building of Gundalous for the Province, if the Council [of] safety thinks proper I will undertake a part and shoud be Obliged to you to agree for me Whatever St[ephen] Stewart or Others hav I will take and endeavour to dispatch business (You Are no Stranger to my foremans Work) I can get more hands if I want them and will...
Date: 23 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir Your favr of the 22d Instant to the Committee of Observation for this County was this morning delivered to Mr [illegible] Ringgold & myselfe and we immediately ordered all the powder & Sail Cloth in the Care of the Committee on board Capt: Bary [Richard Berry] for which youll receive inclosed his Receipt ー the second Escort of Waggons is expected at Town to night by when I hope the...
Date: 24 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
...I have the Satisfaction of informing you that our Militia have prevented the Enemy from Landing or plundering if they intended it and that we have sustained no damage except the Loss of a couple of boats, & the fleet have gone down the River again this day
Date: 26 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir Upon Application of Mr Sowell by the desire of Mr Cowen to him We agreed if it was Agreeable to the Council of Safety to undertake the Building of two or three Gundaleaus to begun upon immediately with a Number of Hands and finisd as [fast] as possibly, ー we have an Oppertunity of Engaging what hands we want immediately and will undertake it on the same terms as Other Carpenters and will give...
Date: 29 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Honble Sir Since my last I have received from Majr Fallen now stationed at Hoopers Streignts an account of the Guard there under his Command having taken a small Schooner belonging to the Enemy in a small Creek making out of Hollands Streights. Majr Fallen having received Intelligence of the Schooner being in the Creek sent a Detachment of thirty Men who took her & the Cargo consisting of a...
Date: 30 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I wrote you sometime ago acquainting that I had two Schooners wc were sunk at the entrance of this harbor by order of the Committee, for upwards of three months. An allowance has been made me, to put the Vessells into as good order as when they were taken away, but I am told an application must be made to the Council of Safety for payment of the demurrage. I should be glad to know when it will be...
Date: 13 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Tomorrow I shall quit this place & proceed down the Bay, with the Tobacco loaded Brigg, on seeing her safe out to Sea, shall return to Wmsburgh, & resign my Commission. ー Should Capt Nicholson quit the Defence, I will accept the Command, provided my pay is equal to, what I have in this Province, & that I shall be permitted to go to Sea with the Ships. ー I shall be under the necesity...
Date: 30 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
We are favord with yours of the 27th ulto, respecting the Cordage we were to furnish Mr Stewart [Stephen Steward] for the Gondolas &c on the public account.
We did not enter into any agreement with him to finish it at any particular day; but on his return from Philadelphia, as he coud not get it there, we promised to do our endeavours to compleat it as soon as possible, and which we mean to...
Date: 1 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
When I was last at Annapolis, Melcher Keener and myself made the Iionble Councill of Safety; an offer to serve them, in the purchase of Produce here, but since that, we have not had the pleasure of hearing from the Honble Council, do suppose they are otherways engaged. I have a Schooner on hand, which by a resolve of our committee sometime ago, I am not allowed to load on my own Acct ー have...
Date: 28 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I am to inform you that, last night Capt George Cook Departed with about Sixty or Seventy Men, Mr [Henry] Auchinlick his first Lieutenant and the other Officers belonging to the Ship Defence under his Command, for the Head of Elk, from whence they are to proceed to Philadelphia with an intent to join the Forces there. —
I would have attended him, but was obliged to give place tomy Senior Officer...
Date: 18 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Congress are in immediate Want of a fast sailing Vessell. Every Endeavor has been used to procure one without Success nor have they least Chance left of getting one unless your honorable Board will spare Capt [John] Martin's Brig.2 I should by no Means ask the Favor, knowing how necessary this Vessel is to the State of Maryland, if the Occasion was not of the most pressing Nature....
Date: 25 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
It is the Wish of the Committee of secret Correspondence to avoid as much as possible doing Injury to the State of Maryland, for which Reason they return you many Thanks for your obliging Compliance with their Request as to the Brig 2 but seeing the great Prejudice their taking of her would be to the State most willingly give her up, provided the Council will favor them with a small...
Date: 29 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
We made the Cable agreeable to your order and had it down upon the Wharf, but the Congress having taken [Larkin] Hammonds Schooner for some dispatches, 2 seized upon the Cable for him, as she is to sail immediately and we cannot make another for some days — Dont blame us for this, We really cannot help it — We have sent the other Riging you ordered and will make the Cable as soon as we...
Date: 31 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
The Bearer Nathaniel Clagett a Brother of mine will deliver you this, in which I beg leave to inform you that he is anxiously dispos'd to Serve his Country in the Naval department, provided he can obtain Friends whose assistance may enable him to procure an Appointment as a Subaltern Officer in the Marein Service —
I have therefore taken the Freedom of troubling you in this Manner, on purpose to...
Date: 13 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7