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We have been presented with a Letter from John Langdon Esquire Continental Agent at Portsmouth in New Hampshire to Josiah Bartlett Esquire a member of Congress, giving a very extraordinary account of your proceedings in respect to the Canon cast in your State for the use of the Continental Frigates. He says that the frigates at Providence cannot be ready to go to sea for two or three months, and...
Date: 9 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
We the Subscribers Members of the Marine Committee of Congress being duely authorized to give such directions as may conduce to the Service of the United States of America in all things relative to this department, are now of opinion that a Compleat Set of the Cannon you have had Cast for the Continental Service ought to be applied to the immediate use of the Raleigh Frigate and therefore do...
Date: 9 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
We fear our orders of the 9th Instant for sending aSet of Cannon from your State to New Hampshire may not be so proper as we thought them at the time of Signing, because we are since informed through several Channels [that your frigates] are quite or very near fit for the Sea, which is avery different account from that which caused us to send that order, therefore to prevent inconvenience or...
Date: 13 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I am sorry to inform you that I am under the necessity of returning to Providence without carrying with me the Balance of your Accot for building the Warren & Providence — you will doubtless be surpris'd at this; but your astonishment cannot be greater than mine was at the circumstance which prevents a Settlement here, agreeable to your wishes. — It is simply this. — Govenr [Stephen] Hopkins...
Date: 9 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9