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My Dear Brother
On our Arrival on this Coast we took a few Vessels the Masters of which informd us of a fleet being in Newport which we thought much stronger than ourselves. And we Began to look Round for a safe port to Shelter in. When at 1 Oclock on the Morning of the 7th of April we saw a Ship to leeward dogging of us as we steerd off Shore. As it was well known that the Enemy seldom separated...
Date: 10 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
May 1776
Sunday 12
[Providence River]
Moderate Breezes & Clear, Sent the Marines on board the Providence, that we gott at New London, to the Camp at [New] York
Date: 12 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
May 1776
Monday 13
[Providence River]
Light airs and Calm, Weigh'd, in Company with the Cabot & drap'd, down to Petuckoct and came too
Tuesday 14th
Moderate Breezes & Clear, Hove up and beat Down, and at 6 P M, gott a Ground on the Gull rocks
Wednesday 15
Light airs & Calm, At 3 A M, Gott off & tow'd down abres of new Port & came too
Thursday 16th...
Date: 19 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
May 1776
Sunday 19
[Off Newport, Rhode Island]
At 3 A M, Weigh and at 7 Do abrest of the Light house, almost Calm
Moderate Breezes & Clear, At 6 P M, Nowman's Land, Bore NBW 5 Leagues, at 7 Do Saw a large Ship, a Stern standing after us, At 8 Do Sounded 25 fathom, At 10 Do, saw the Ship a Stern comeing up fast The Cabot bore away to the Eastward, & we made sail to the South'd, at 11...
Date: 21 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
The Night after we left New Port being Chased by a Vessel we took to be the Cerberus the Cabot Run a more direct course for Nantucket Shoals than I thought safe to do by which Means we have lost company with her. This Morning we took a Sloop bound from Salter tudas to Liverpool in Nova Scotia.2 Mr [Philip] Brown my third Mate to whom I have given Charge of Her will Give You what...
Date: 21 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
May 1776
Sunday 26
Latitude In 38..59 Longitude In 62..34
Fresh Breezes & heazy Weather, with a Swell from the Eastward Under Close Reef Topsails, At 12 MN the Barge got out of the Chocks & had like to kill one of the Seaman that was Sleeping under it
Monday 27th
39..35 60..27
Fresh Breezes & thick close Weather attended, with rain and a Great Swell from the Eastward, At...
Date: 29 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
It is with the greatest Pleasure imaginable I Received letters from home as it convinces me that I am not intirely forgot: which I had some Reason to suspect, as I have not before Received any except the single line you were pleased to favoir me with, since I left Reedy Island, Altho every other Officer in the Fleet got letters by every post and I seldom let an opportunity pass without writing to...
Date: 16 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I arrived here the 26th of June in company with Capt [Hoysteed] Hacker in the Fly, Who sail'd for New York with a fair wind yesterday morning. There are several Vessels here outward bound. Capt [Thomas] Kennedy who commands one of them Shew me a paper signd by one of the Committe of Congress Directed to the Commander of Continental or Provincial Vessels of War Desiring they would Assist them in...
Date: 28 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
A Libel is filed before me, in Behalf of Nicholas Biddle, Esq; his Officers and Men, belonging to the Brigantine Andrew Doria, a Continental Vessel of War, and one of the Fleet for the Protection and Defence of the United Colonies of America, under the Command of Esek Hopkins, Esq; Commander in Chief, against 191 Fire Arms with Cartouch Boxes, 3 Fusells, 2 Hangers, 162 Bayonets, 80 Broad Swords,...
Date: 13 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
A Gentleman in Philadelphia desires me to make enquiry concerning a certain Capt Golly who was taken in a Vessel from Philadelphia and Carried to Halifax from which Place he made his escape, and on his way home was stop'd and confind in Providence Goal. As his Wife and Friends have not heard any Reason Assign'd for his confinement they are very uneasy on his account. I am not acquainted with Capt...
Date: 26 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Notice is hereby given, That a Court of Admiralty will be held at the Statehouse, in the city of Philadelphia, on Thursday the 28th day of November inst. at ten o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, then and there to try the truth of the facts alledged in the bill of Nicholas Biddle, Esq; (who as well, &c.) against the following Negro slaves, to wit, Luke, Baile, Jack, Phil and Ben, taken...
Date: 11 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Indent of Sundrey Slops Wanted for the Randolph Frigate
Great Coats
20
Outside Jacketts
200
Inside do
60
Shirts
200
Frocks
100
Pair of Shoes
260
Stockings
300
Caps
250
Hatts or Dutch Caps
100
Beds
180
Rugs & Blanketts
260
Woollen Trowsers
240
Mittens
280
Please to Deliver the Slops mentioned in the above Indent for the Frigate Randolph
Date: 19 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I have just got here after one of the most disagreeable Passages that ever I experienced ー We sprung our Fore Mast and were forcd to get every thing of[f] it to keep it from going over the side. And a few days after we lost our Main Mast which gave way even with the deck, and gave us little more warning than was Necessary to stand from Under. As it Blew a fret of wind and a very high Sea going to...
Date: 11 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Thursday
January 4th
At 2 PM Cast off from the Warf In Company with the Comodore Ship Alfred, Columbus & Cabot, Light airs from the Westward & much Ice in the River, At 6 Do Came to at the Pierse at Liberty Island, & was there Detain'd by the Ice till the 17th
Date: 4 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
(A Sp[eec]h[)] of N: B. Before the County Court held at Lewis town Feb: 14 1776 N:B: The Sheriff was afraid of being acctble for the de[b]t and desird the Court to indem[ni]fy him.
I was this Morning inform'd that one [William] Green who had deserted from me was last evening, on that account, taken up and put in your Goal. As it was very common whilst we lay at Reedy Island for the Good People...
Date: 15 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
I have the Pleasure to inform you that since I wrote to you we have Received a Reinfor[c]ement of 120 Men from Rhode Iland and have also [i]ncreased our fleet with a Sloop of ten Guns and 70 Men and small Schooner of 8 two pounders from Maryland. 2 I now muster 109 Men in the Whole, and am in every Respect well equipt. have by great odds the fastest sailing Vessel in the fleet. except...
Date: 15 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
I have the pleasure to acquaint you that I have at last got once more without the Barr of Charles Town Since I wrote my last letter to you I had another Main Mast Split with Lightning We had been ready for Sea for some time and only waited for Men. A Bounty of Thirty Dollars I offerred had little effect and some of the State Armed Vessells being in Port nothing could be done by the State untill...
Date: 1 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I have the Pleasure to acquaint You that on the fourth of Septr 30 Leags S E of Charles Town Barr I met with and took after a little Resistance the True Britain Thomas Venture Master of twenty six pounders and seventy four Men — the Brig Charming Peggy Capt Lyon both Laden with Rum for the British Army and Navy and bound from Jamaica to New York — The Ship Severn Capt Henderson (of eight four...
Date: 12 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9