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A letter from the Committee of Newark, requesting that this Congress would procure, or order to be built, four gondolas or row-gallies, mounted with cannon, to ply between the mouths of Passaick and Hackinsack rivers and Perth Amboy...
Date: 17 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
This Congress having received information that, a few days since, a small vessel supposed to be a tender to some man of war, was taken near Barnagat, with three persons on board; and this information appearing to be true, this Congress think it proper that the said vessel be detained for the present, and that the persons taken on board be secured in some safe place in the County of Monmouth,...
Date: 11 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The report from the Committee of the County of Monmouth, relative to the detention of a small sloop, supposed to be a tender to some ship of war, &c., with the several examinations respecting that matter, were read;
Resolved, That it be recommended to that Committee to publish an advertisement in the newspapers, describing the sloop, so that the owner may know where to apply; and that the men...
Date: 18 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
A memorial was presented to this Congress from Ichabod B. Barnett, Esquire. of Elizabeth Town, setting forth that, in the month of March last, he was advertis.ed by the Committee of Elizabeth Town, as inimical to the liberties of his Country, for assisting Messrs. Robert and John Murray in landing certain goods out of the ship Beulah; that ever before, and since landing the said goods, he hath...
Date: 24 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Ordered, That Mr. [John] Hart, Mr. [John] Mehelm, Mr. [Lewis] Ogden and Mr. [Abijah] Brown be a Committee to prepare a draught of an ordinance for erecting a Court of Admiralty in this Province.
Date: 2 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
The Committee appointed to draught an ordinance for erecting a Court of Admiralty in this Province, reported, That they had consulted William Livingston, Esq., one of our Delegates in Continental Congress on the subject, and proposed to him, whether it would not be of manifest advantage to the Colonies, if that Congress should, by one general ordinance, institute the powers and mode of erecting a...
Date: 15 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3