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We think there will be a risque from the Man of War with those Articles you Mention2 but if you think you Can Manage that there is no other Danger, only let any Vessell you Send these goods round in run up here, before She Enters at annapolis, and the[y] can Savely be landed, as we have no [naval] Officer here.
Date: 8 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
we shall as soon as the Brig gets away, make out Your Acct & Get all settled to satisfaction. Mr. Russell is Arrived in Town, he got all safe Landed at Indian River, and is now a getting them over he had five Tons of Powder in which will be some help. he goes out again for the same Consern, & we think we Can get You any sum in Your Share (at present we are only £ 50 and do not mean to...
Date: 14 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
...the Brig Rogers now Returned from Annapolis and what will be done with her we Cannot tell, as there are three men of war in our Bay as high as Rappahannock & by Express from Williamsburg we learn that all the Norfolk fleet is in Our Bay, and above York River, ー but what their Design is we Cannot tell, however Your Brig Cannot go Under the present Situation of things, at the same time we...
Date: 1 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
John Pringle ー Your favr of 4th now before us & Contents noted, our G[eorge] W[oolsey] is now ordered to Annapolis a Second time about the Brig,2 we suppose to Unload here, but we shall not agree to that Untill we hear further from You. Unless the[y] Pay us the freight and for any time Longer she has been in their hands, than she Could have made her Passage to the West Indies ...
Date: 8 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
we Request You will find us two tons more of Rod Iron,...& four good swivells, for a Little Private Tear we are fitting out here,2 would be a Trifle Concearned if You wd we think we Could get You in, if Possible send the Swivels Immediately as they are much wanted...
our G.W. has been at Annapolis about Unloading the Brig,3 but has done Nothing, our Council offers (but...
Date: 15 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
we Wrote You Last when we thought the Brig was Ordered to [sail] but are not Positive.2...[Thomas] Russell goes this day if You want to write by him You must send it to Indian River where perhaps You may be time Enough,3 Could you get us a few Pistolls & two or three Bolts of Canvass Let us know & what the Price will be,4
Date: 18 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
we have Your favr of the 18th & 25 and Contents noted, the Pork we will take as we want it for the Privateteer, we cannot yet tell You what part we will get You in her but will get You a small Part if Possible, she is only a Pilot Boat & my Brother goes in her. You Possitively must get us four Swivell Guns for her,2 we Proposed to our Council of Safety that they might Discharge...
Date: 25 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
there is [an] order to Unload Your Brig, but we have Refused to Deliver a Barrel untill give us from Under their hand they will pay us the freight, we Suppose they will be Affronted, but we would Rather they ware than we should trust them too much,2 our Govener [is] gone but he & Capt. Montague [George Montagu] have Broak the Truce by taking of Number of People without Permission...
Date: 29 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
we are Sorrey for our Losses in Canady, but we hope in the end, it willmake us Better Solldiers, Indeed we must Expect a Little Drubbing, at first for want of Experience but if we can do torraybill this Campain, we think the Next we will flog them, ー
our Goveners gone from the Province but behaved so Verry Bad on going of[f], such as Bracking the Truce by taking Peoples Servants, that we have no...
Date: 2 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
We are making great Preparations here, in Case of a Visit in the Winter. If Howe shou'd be beat at N. York, I suppose he & his Myrmidons will either go to Virginia, or come here. I hope we [are] invincible to any thing that will come agst usー
We have some Thoughts of Sending a Couple of Thousand Men, to ravage E. Florida, & cut off the Communication between Augustine & the Country....
Date: 13 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
We wrote you the 27th last Month to which refer. Since have Recd your favrs of the 24th & 27th Augt and note the Contents & Shall do as you Direct about Jones Bill as yet we have, not got you a Small Vessell Neither is there any probabillity of getting a Master for them nor yet for the Brig. however we Expect a Sloop every day here & its probable we Shall buy her for you tho we Know...
Date: 1 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
...Wm Woolsey is Come to town a few Days Since, has Taken one large Ship in partnership with a Road Island privateer. also on the 7th Inst he took Another Ship him Self but no Accot. yet of there Arrival he fears from the winds we have had that the last is gone to New England, the first was Ordered to Dartmouth the first Ship Was Called the St James. Capt Edwards the last Ship was Called the...
Date: 21 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
We understand that How's Army is retreating if so we give you joy. We can now inform you that the Brig Rogers is safe in St Eustatia & that the Harlequin 2 is arrived in the River with the ship Lydia Capt Dane a Prize with Sugar &c . . .
Date: 10 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
. . . Letters from the Sturdy Beggar2 yesterday from Martinico. She has had some hard fighting & Lost two Men & went in their to refit. in January She took a Brig of[f] Madeira Loaded with oats not yet arrived on the 2nd February took a Ship & a Brig from Cork mounting 14 Guns each they engaged her 2½ Hours, both of them arrived yesterday nothing on Board but Bread flour...
Date: 24 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
your favour of the 1st Instant is now before us & Contents noted we wish as you do that all our Privateers would send in something, but begin to fear for the Sturdy Beggars best Prize. We are thankfull for the £200 in the Oliver Cromwell and hope both She and the Montgomery has done well We have now the Emerald English Frigate in our Bay. its said she has taken fourteen Prizes and burnt them...
Date: 5 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
. . . mr Ewing knows not when his brig will go or Where She will go to, as no passengers offers. . .
Very little doing here two or three Vessells are now loading & have been loaded under the Inst[r]uctn of the Commatee for to Bring in P[owde]r.
Date: 4 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
if Lord Dunmore had beeh able to Send a vessell of 14 guns up which he intended about 4 Weeks Since, We suppose our Whole town woud be in ashes Ere this, but Kind Providence Cut him out some other work, for Which we in this town have reason to be thankful as we are not yet prepared for any thing of the kind, but hope Ere Spring to be prepared for them... we sent you Six Casks of rice by Galbraith...
Date: 23 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3