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We received by Captain Chew your Letter of the 27th ulto advising your having purchased A Brigantine suitable for an Armed Cruizer in our Navy. On recurring to our letter to you of the 22nd August last, we find that our Orders were expressly that you should purchase and fit out the Schooner taken by Como Hopkins in his return from the New Providence expedition and sent by his Fleet into your Port...
Date: 17 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I wish you to give your Influence to Capt Clark to enable him to collect all the Whale Boats in the State & bring them to this Place where they may be together under Guard & put into Repair — If an Order from Governor Trumbull is necessary for this Purpose I will procure it — I would be glad that Capt Clark might bring the Mifflin2 to this Place since the Return of Genl Howe to...
Date: 24 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I am advised by General Schuyler that the Enemy are arrived at Crown Point, that they have sent a strong party by the way of Otter Creek to fall in between Ticonderoga and Skeensborough, that another detachment is sent down on the west side of lake George to get possession of Fort George if Possible — Thus the enemys plan of operation is opened. we may hourly expect Intelligence that the army...
Date: 30 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Received of Nathaniel Shaw Junr Sixty pound Lawful money on Accot and for shiping men for the Continental Brig. Resistance Samuel Chew Esq Commander
Date: 11 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Received of Nathl Shaw Junr Continental Agent the Brigt Called the Resistance One Hundred & Fifty Tons Burthen, My Self Commander fitted out by Shaw for & On Accot of the United States of America, Mounting Fourteen Four Pounder Cannon, Twelve Swivells, Sixteen Blunder Busses, Fifty Small Arms &c with Sufficient Amunition Stores, Sails, Rigging & Every Necessary for a Four Months...
Date: 26 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9