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Brigadier General Robert Howe to the Chairman of the North Carolina Council of Safety, June 29, 1776
The necessity we have for powder, & the certainty of your having it res placed from Virginia, induces me to request of you, (by the desire of Gen. Lee) to despatch with the utmost expedition, as large a quantity as you can possibly spare, as the safety of this place, may probably depend upon it.
As the General has enclosed, open for your perusal, his account of yesterday's action to the...
Date: 29 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
The Survey I took of a great part of Georgia made me in some measure acquainted with it's Situation, and I mention'd to his Excellency the President those methods I thought best calculated to place it in a proper State of defence; this induced me to imagine that upon the meeting of your Convention either those methods wou'd have been adopted, or some other plan of defence immedi.atly fallen upon...
Date: 3 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
We have scouting parties down the Bay, to give intelligence of the arrival of any vessels, or any other event, either to our advantage or otherwise. From the officers commanding those parties, we have received certain intelligence that a man of war, either of thirty-six or forty guns, is within the Bay, and on her way to this place, with a large brig, supposed to be a store ship, both full of men...
Date: 13 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
I wish for time to consult my instructions as well as to take the opinion of some of the Officers with me, upon the Subject of your letter; an answer to which I shall send you by ten o Clock to morrow morning. You may be assured it will not be my inclination to prevent your obtaining any supplies but such as by express orders I may find it my Duty to withhold. I am Sir, [&c.]
Date: 24 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Yesterday, by a flag of truce, I received a letter from capt. [Henry] Bellew, a copy of which I have the honour to transmit you, with the copies of those I have written to him. Though col. Woodford and myself were sensible it was our duty to withhold from him, as much as in our power lay, those supplies he wishes to obtain, yet the moderate conduct he has pursued, and the sentiments of humanity...
Date: 25 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Sir I am too much of an Officer to wish you to do anything Incompatible with the Honor of your Commission, or to recede My self from any point which I conceive to be my duty. Under the force of reciprocal feelings consequences may ensue which each of us perhaps may wish fo avoid. Our Centinels have rec'd orders by no means to offer insult or injury to your Boats or People or to any others that...
Date: 30 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
The cannonade of the town began about a quarter after three yesterday, from upwards of one hundred pieces of cannon, and continued till near ten at night, without intermission; it then abated a little, and continued till two this morning. Under cover of their guns they landed and set fire to the town in several places near the water, though our men strove to prevent them all in their power; but...
Date: 2 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Sir I inclose you a Letter from the President of the Provincial Council of [North] Carolina which just now came inclosed to me by express. I am so happy as to have my conduct approved by that Honorable body & to receive their orders to continue here while my assistance shall be thought necessary to your Colony which I assure you Sir gives me real pleasure. Things here remain much in the way...
Date: 3 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
As I know nothing more esential to the safety of this State than cornpleating the Continental Battallions stationed in it, and Manning of the Gallies,1 I beg leave to give you my sentiments upon the subject, and if any thing I mention may be thought worthy the consideration of the Honble: the Council and Assembly you will do me the favor of laying my Letter before them.
The...
Date: 3 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11