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I should not have deferred writing you so long, had the situation of my health admitted of my so doing; but I have had so severe an indisposition, that it has impaired much the faculties of my mind, so much so, though I have been able to walk abroad for eight or nine days past, yet my memory has been so very bad, that I have not, till within this day or two, been capable of recollecting any...
Date: 29 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
As it may be a means of preventing Mr Forrests, & the other Gentlemens Chests, & other things being more vigorously rummaged when you get up, You will be kind enough, before the Pilot or any other reputable person to examine their Chests, Boxe's, &c. should you come Across [illegible] Money, You will take a List, or Acct of it, Accurately; As the Congress will require a return of...
Date: 8 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I came down here on Saturday last, in a Flag of Truce, with a Quantity of Provisions for our Prisoners here, they have thought proper to Detain me, and have lodged me here, I can assign no other reason for such Treatment, unless a pretext that no Officer of my Rank could with propriety come on such an Occasion, indeed they seem to Cavil at my Names being inserted as Master of the Shallop,1...
Date: 17 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11