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a Ship from your Port with One Hundred & Eighteen Pipes of Wine is wreck[e]d to the Eastward,3 the Wine & Crew saved, she was bound into Boston. The Captain & Crew are prisoners, & will be here in a Day or Two, when they arrive, you shall know who were the Shippers of This Cargo. a Vessel bound from Boston to Nova Scotia with Dry Goods, is taken by Fisherman from...
Date: 7 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The Committee of Safety meet tomorrow Morning at 9 oClock And attend the Committee of Assembly at 10 ー On Wednesday Morning 9 oClock the Board meet and go into the Consider[ation] of the appointment of a Commodore, at which time the Mem[bers] are requested to meet punctually
Date: 13 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I sent Mr [Gibbs] Jones my 1st Lieutt to town in order to get a 2d Lieutt appointed by the Comittee of safety & he informs me that you woud not do it without my Approbation in writing these is to request you to appoint Mr. Robt Hume2 to that office if he shou'd meet with your Approbation & you'l Oblige Sir [&c.]
Date: 15 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
For this Week past Fortune has Smiled upon Us from All Quarters, & last Night word was brought out of Boston by some Inhabitants who left it Yesterday, that a Vessel was Just arrived there from Quebeck. The Master of which Declared that Our Troops, Assisted by near 6000 Canadians, took Possession of that Capitol a day or Two After the Middle of November; that thereupon all the Ships belonging...
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2