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Do be so obliging to let me know if you have any News from the Northward as I boarded a sloop to Day who came from Charles Town before that from Rhode Island he told me Capt. [John] Lindsey was there from the disposition of the People here I am laying off Fort Johnston where the Governor is who has sent his Family to New York
I am Dr Sir. [&c.]
Date: 2 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Dear Sir, Do be so obliging to let me know if you have any News from the Northward as I boarded a sloop toDay which came from Charles Town before that from Rhode Island he told me Capt [John] Lindsey [Linzee] was there from the disposition of the People here I am laying off Fort Johnston where the Governor is he has just sent his Family to New York. I am Dr Sir [&c.]
Date: 18 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Whereas I have sent the Honble Capt [John] Tollemache in his Majesty's Sloop Scorpion to relieve the Cruizer and to be stationed untill further Orders at North Carolina, and whereas in the present weak State of his Majs. Sloops Tamer and Cruizer it is absolutely necessary they should come where they can be repaired and refitted with dispatch.
You are therefore directed and required to compleat...
Date: 22 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
September 1775
[Wednesday] 13
In Rebellion Road So Carolina
P M sent the Cutter Armed on Board the Swallow Packet2 and took the Mail out to presirve the Governors Letter[s] Do The Governor came on Board Saluted him with 15 Guns
Date: 13 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
September 1775
[Friday] 29.
In Rebellion Road So Carolina
P M at ½ past 10 received an Information that the rebells were to Attack the Ships Cleared Ship and Kept under arms all Night
Date: 29 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
This Afternoon one of your Officers brought up a paper from on board the Tamar, addressed to Henry Laurens,. Esq; ー It appeared to have been intended as an Answer to a Message from the General Committee to his Excellency the Governor ー it had no Signature* but the Officer declared he brought it from Lord William Campbell.
We find that, upon your Officer's return to his Boat, he was much insulted...
Date: 30 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
In answer to your Letter of Yesterday's Date the General Committee think proper to inform you, that they have not refused a Supply of Provisions to the King's Ships in this Harbour, nor have they taken one Step to prevent their Watering. The hostile Dispositions which the Commander of those Ships has for some Time past shewn towards this Colony, by imprisoning its Pilots, affording [Sanctuary] to...
Date: 30 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Mr. President reported the draught of an answer, which he had been desired to prepare, to Capt. Thornbrough's letter of the 1st instant.
And the said draught being taken into immediate consideration, was amended, and agreed to:
In Congress. Charles Town, South-Carolina, Nov. 3, 1775.
To Edward Thornbrough, Commander of the Tamer Sloop of War.
Sir, Col. [Henry] Laurens, the late President,...
Date: 4 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The late cruel cannonade of Bristol by the British ships of war, to enforce an arbitrary demand of sheep ー the general depredations on the American coasts, by ministerial authority ー the late advices from England of large military armaments by land and sea, for the hostile invasion of the Colonies upon this continent ー and, the proclamation of the 23d of August last, at the Court of St. James',...
Date: 10 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The following letter was written to Capt. Thornborough, of the Tamar sloop of war.
In the Council of Safety,
Dec. 18th, 1775.
Sir ー We would have wished, if it had been possible, to have continued the permission which lately subsisted for supplying his majesty's ships with provision for a longer term, even until a happy reconciliation with our parent country had taken place; but the measures...
Date: 18 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3