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In answer to the Letter Your Excellency was pleased to write to Us the 12th Instant, respecting the Ship Totness Capt. Warren, which was lately destroyed about Twelve Miles below this Place. We can only report to your Excellency, from hearsay, that the Vessel being bound from Liverpool to Baltimore with a Cargo of Salt and other Articles on Board, run on Shore in the Night of the 9th or loth of...
Date: 18 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir. Your brother3 has been so obliging as to communicate to me from time to time, such Intelligence as you have transmitted to him respecting the State of affairs in Maryland, and about 10 days ago I had the Satisfaction to receive your Letter of the 5th. of May.
I sincerely wish you may not have been too sanguine in your hopes that the time is not far distant when Peace &...
Date: 5 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Convention, that upon the evidence before them of the correspondence which his excellency governor Eden has, from time to time, held with administration, it does not appear that such correspondence has been with an unfriendly intent, or calculated to countenance any hostile measures against America.
Whereas by a late intercepted letter from lord George...
Date: 24 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I have received your letter of the 26th instant by Mr. Smith, and am very Sorry, tho not Surprized to learn that you think it necessary to leave Annapolis. The Province of Maryland has hitherto been looked upon as having acted with a degree of moderation in the present unnatural Rebellion subsisting in the Colonies, and I confess I had great hopes from your continuing in your Government, that you...
Date: 30 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I have the happiness to Acquaint you that last Night I arrived here with his Brittanick Majesty's ship the Fowey under my Command, Agreeable to an Order from Captain Hamond of his Majesty's Ship the Roebuck, and Senior Officer of his Majesty's ships at Virginia: And in consequence of your Application to him, I have hoisted the flagg of Truce at my Foretop gallant Masthead to shew that I am not...
Date: 23 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Tom Eden is so violent a Patriot, that he will not let me write one Word worth your reading, as he says that my accursed Politics have already brought a Slur on the Blood of our Family ー take plain Facts therefore without any Comment ー Ld Dartmouth has quitted the Seals 2 for the Privy Seal, which was vacated by the Dismission of the Duke of Grafton, his Grace having made a Crane-...
Date: 15 November 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Sir, It was not 'till the 27th of Novr that your Dispatch to Lord Dartmouth of the 27th of August was received here, when I had the honor of laying it before the King; and I have it in command from His Majesty, to express to you His Majesty's Approbation of your Zeal for the public Service, and of the unalterable Attachment you have shewn to His Person & Government, from the first...
Date: 23 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
I am very unable to say a tenth Part of what I ought to say to you this Evening, when there is So much to be said, and so few Opportunities of saying it. ー but my Head is disabled by this Influenza, which has disabled us all by Tums, and my Attention, as far as I am competent to employ it, is engaged by official Business. ー
Our Campaign this Year has certainly not been brilliant, and the News (...
Date: 24 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Annapolis has assumed a very different Appearance since Your Excellency left it. They have formed a Battery from Mr Walter Dulany's Lot round the Water's Edge to the Granary adjoining Your Garden; The Cannon are mostly 18 Pounders, the Works appear strong, & I am told are so. From your Wharf to the Hill where Callihorne lived, they have thrown up a covered way to communicate with that part of...
Date: 23 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9