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Resolved, That Daniel Tillinghast Esq. the Continental Agent for this State, be, and he is hereby impowered to receive on Loan to him out of the General Treasury, the Sum of One Thousand Pounds Lawful Money to enable him to fit and send away to Sea the Continental Ship Warren, John Hopkins Esq. Commander ー
£1000 ー
A true Copy ー Witness.
Date: 24 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Resolved that Messrs John Brown John jenckes, Esek Hopkins Thomas Rumrick, & Christopher Lippet be & they or any three of them are hereby appointed a Committee to Propose a Plan for the purchase of Two Vessels for Cruizers & for the Voiages of Three Vessels to be fitted Out by this State to procure such Articles as are necessary for the use of the Inhabitants thereof & the supply...
Date: 23 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
We have received yours of ye. 19th. instant proposing to dismiss the Prisoners in your Hands.—Humanity forbids us to Reject the Proposal.—It will be as convenient to you to put them ashore at Bristol, and as the Prisoners may more easily be landed, and sooner meet with Refreshments and Accomodations, there than at Warwick-Neck you will send them to that Place. You may be...
Date: 24 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
You being appointed Master of the Sloop Diamond in the Service of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and now fitted for Sea and ready to Sail, Our Orders to you are to embrace the first favourable Opportunity of Wind and Weather and Proceed to Sea and make the best of your way to such Port or inlet in the State of Maryland as by getting all possible Information you shall find is...
Date: 7 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11