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We have already Two Privateers out from this Place and one from Greenwich. Three more are now fitting from this Town and will soon sail. Capt [Samuel] Chace brought with him Four 4 Pounders, Six 3 Pounders, and Eight Swivels which are greatly wanted here for privateers. I have written to the General to permit us to take them for that Use at the full Value in Case they can be spared, 2...
Date: 16 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
There was a Negroe Man onboard the Andrew Doria named Dragoon Wanton 2 which I have purchas'd — Should be extremely glad if you will take the trouble to take some Charge of him, and either send him tq me, or see that he is employ'd in the Service with Captn [Nicholas] Biddle, or any other way, as you may think fit —
My brother Shew'd me a Letter of yours, in which it seems I was...
Date: 8 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
The Owners of the Privateer Schooner Eagle request that you will present to Congress, and support with your good Influence, the inclosed Memorial and Protest, relative to the Conduct of Capt. Jones, Commander of the Ship Alfred, in impressing a Number of Hands from the Said Schooner, maltreating the Officers, and breaking up her Cruize. We are told, and are convinced, that we should be guilty of...
Date: 3 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
. . . We are at present employed in throwing up Intrenchments to secure this Town; the Possession of which we imagine is a grand Object with the Enemy. As from the Situation of the Country round, it might be fortified in such a Manner as to make the Expulsion of the Enemy a Work of extreme Difficulty, and from hence they might enter the very Heart of the Country. The Warren, Providence, Columbus...
Date: 22 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I saw a paragraph of your Letter to the Genl Assembly in which you mention of a Story from Mr [Joseph] Vesey which if true would have been greatly to my Scandal and likewise to the other Officers of the Navy that were in this place ー I must beg your patience to hear the Circumstances of that matter ー
I was onboard the Warren Jany 2nd near Fields point, the Ship Providence lay about a mile below,...
Date: 13 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
The bearer Lieutt [John Peck] Rathbun waits on you with this he has Served since the Fleet went from Philadelphia there being no Vacancy whereby I could promote him agreeable to his Merits ー if there Should be any Vacancy with you I can recommend him as a man of Courage and I believe Conduct, and a man that is a Friend to his. Country ー and I believe the most of the Success Capt [John Paul] Jones...
Date: 13 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I receiv'd your esteem'd Favour of Town Meeting day, just time enough to get chose a deputy for this Town had I receiv'd it a Week sooner perhaps I might have been at the head of the Prox ー Altho' I have lost the Interest of a parcel of mercenary Merchants Owners of Privateers, I do not think I .have lost it in the Major part of this State ー I heartily wish the Fleet may do well in the way you...
Date: 20 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8