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Yesterday Mr. John Brown, one of the principal Merchants of this Town, being at Newport, as an Agent for this Colony, appointed by the General Assembly to purchase Provisions, for the Use of this and your Government, was seized upon in a Freight or Packet Boat coming to Providence. He was carried and confined on Board a Man of War lying in Newport; and about 300 Barrels of Flour, in that Packet...
Date: 27 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Mr Joseph Brown, and Mr Moses Brown of this Place, principal Merchants, and Gentlemen of Distinction and Probity, will wait upon you with this Letter ー Their Brother Mr. John Brown of this Town Merchant, was two Days ago forcibly taken at Newport in a Packet, as he was coming from thence with a Quantity of Flour, which he had purchased there. He was carried on Board a Ship of War and confined,...
Date: 28 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On my Jorney homward, at a Town called Millstone in Somersett County in the Jerseys, I found confined their, a strange groupe of about fourteen Prisoners, four of which belong to New England, and had been taken at different times by British Cruisers, and carrid to Hallifax, and having no other means to get Home, ships themselves on Board some small Transpot Vessells bound to New Yorke, wheer they...
Date: 1 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The thirteen Ships who came down the Sound the 26th current, arrived at Newport Yesterday, and are supposed to be the Wood Vessels from Long-Island with their Convoy; they drove on Shore at Point Judith a Sloop laden with Salt: — an Armed Schooner and a Number of Barges from the Harbor of Newport attacked her, and it is most likely will destroy her. —
The Enemy are erecting a Fort or Battery upon...
Date: 28 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
We deferred an answer to your Honor's last letter hoping to have obtained the Resolves of Congress upon the Interesting Subjects contained in it. We laid it before Congress. Business has since been very pressing, but we shall embrace the first favorable opportunity of obtaining the proper Resolves & shall transmit them as soon as possible.2
We have no news from England since the...
Date: 4 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
You will perceive by a Letter from the [Naval] Committee, dated yesterday, that they have pitched upon you to take the Command of a small Fleet, which they and I hope will be but the Beginning of one much larger.
I suppose you may be more serviceable to your Country, in this very dangerous Crisis of its affairs, by taking upon you this Command than you can in. any other Way. I should therefore...
Date: 6 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Sir Since our last We have the Honor of two Letters from you; Genl Hopkins has arrived very well, his accepting the Command of the Fleet gives universal Satisfaction:2 Capt Whipple is not yet arrived; We are a little embarrassed about the Vessel, the Comee informs us that the Colony considers her as belonging to the Continent & in their Service & propose to be repaid for her...
Date: 2 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
We have proposed that the small sloop Fly belonging to Clarke and Nightingale is now going immediately to Providence shall return hither again directly and bring as many able seamen as she can carry ー If her owners shall agree to this plan to Whom we have wrote for this purpose we shall be greatly obliged to you to use your utmost influence for the procuring of such seamen, it being slowly that...
Date: 9 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3