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Sir We have received Information that there are no Vessels of War below, except the Otter and Eilbeck, and that most of the Tenders are gone to the Carolina Coast to protect the Transports on their Arrival there; in Consequence of which we have ordered down the Briggs Fortune and Rogers and the schooner Ninety Two with valuable Cargoes of Bread, Flour, &c and require you will give them what...
Date: 20 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir You will please to proceed to Baltimore and wait our further orders, ー we send this by Mr Middleton, whose boat you may keep with the ship 'till you come off Annapolis, presuming you will not want her further ー if however it should not be necessary for her to attend you, you will order down the bay, to gain what intelligence she can, of the ships you left below.
Date: 30 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
sir we received yrs dated this morning off the harbour and are pleased to hear that you was gone past to Baltimore. ー we would have you make the best preparation you can to repel any attack, that may be made by our Enemies on either the fortifications or town of Baltimore. we received this morning an express from Virginia informing us that Lord Dunmore had sailed from Norfolk up the bay with his...
Date: 2 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir We have some powder and small arms arrived at great Wiccomico in Virginia2ー we want your Small Tender to go up that river for them, and the ship Defence to go down below the mouth of Potowmack to protect her ー come down therefore, as soon as you can, & call on us for a letter to the person, who has the military stores under his care. We are [&c.]
Date: 7 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Sir, It will be uncertain whether we can meet with a Vessell here to go to James River for the Coal, we shall be glad therefore if you will procure for us three, that will bring from fifteen hundred to two Thousand each, and dispatch them down to us with the greatest Expedition, the Resolution must go with them for their protection she must call here in her way as we shall send a Person in her...
Date: 26 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Sir, We wish to avoid being thought troublesome, but conceiving it to be indispensibly our duty to have all Accts with this Board adjusted as Speedily as possible, are obliged again to repeat our Request, that you will immediately render us a compleat Acct of all pecuniary Matters, which you have had the transaction of, relative to the ship Defence, Since you took the Command of her ー The Sooner...
Date: 25 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Sir Your last Letters gave us great reason to believe that we should Soon have the Accts relative to the Ship Defence Settled; we have waited some time expecting your coming down for that Purpose, we again beg Leave to remind you of the necessity there is, that those Accts should be settled. — we must insist on having it done Soon, or we shall be obliged to make out a peremptory order for your...
Date: 14 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
It has been reported that You was coming up to this City with a Body of Seamen and Marines. one of the frigates is ready for the Sea, the other three may be soon ready for a short Voyage, if Men & Guns [.could) be procured. You would render essential Service, if You could immediately come up with a Body of Seamen and an attempt might be made to bring round all the frigates here to Baltimore...
Date: 11 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
It seems currently reported that the Frigate Virginia under your command is ready for the sea and that she only waits for Orders. Hoping this may really be the case, we despatch the following Instructions by which you are to be governed. You are immediately to proceed with the said Frigate to Sea, embracing such favourable winds as may be likely to run you quickly of[f] the Coast, for as we know...
Date: 8 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
We have received repeated Accounts of your having impressed, and detained a number of Seafaring Men, and others, who either resided in, or were occasionally at Baltimore Town, and that besides the wrong to the Individuals, it's consequences have been injurious to the Town, in deterring People from going to Market there, for fear of being treated in the same manner. ー
We do not know that you can...
Date: 24 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
We received your Letter of the fifth Instant by the Post, directed to the Governor. We feel no Inclination to impose Terms of Concession inconsistent with the Honor of a Gentleman or Officer. Your Letter of the 25th of April conveyed an Affront to the Governor and Council; Your explicit Disapprobation of your Conduct in Writing that .letter, is but a necessary Attonement and will, as to us, be...
Date: 8 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
As the Enemy's Fleet are in Chesapeak Bay and may possibly turn their Views agt Baltimore, or at least make an Attempt to seize the Shipping in that Harbour, I have it in Charge from Congress to inform you, that it is their desire, in Case your Vessel cannot be saved from falling into the Hands of the Enemy otherwise than by destroying her, that in this Case you should destroy her, and at the...
Date: 22 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
We have received your favour of the 23d instant1 and are sorry that your Late effort to get to Sea had failed The great service that might be done to the States by your Ship being out has urged us to wish much for that event and altho you have been unsuccessful in your late attempt yet we would not have that prevent your making an other trial and as we are perfectly...
Date: 28 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
We have immediate Occasion for the Schooner Dolphin1 and should be glad you would return her as soon as possible—We are Sir &ca.
Date: 19 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Your letters of the 25th & 26th ultimo per Lieutenant Barney1 are now before us. We are concerned to find your last attempt in getting the frigate Virginia to sea had been fruitless; but as your letters inform us such is the fondness your officers and Seamen retain for the Ship that you think they will chearfully make another treat. This has induced the...
Date: 4 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Mr. Sleamaker,1 on his Return, has called on us and gives us such Information of the Number & Situation of the Ships that we imagine there will be no immediate Attempt to run the Virginia: indeed we think the Chance of getting through so small, that we wish you not to make a Push, if your Orders give you any Latitude. Our Sentimts. on the Subject have already...
Date: 12 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11