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An Ardor for the Success of the present Continental Cause, will I doubt not excuse a seeming Impropriety in my addressing a Body with the Members of whom I have the Honor of claiming little or no Acquaintance.
I am here during the War, and my Connection with Mr Penet (for whose Character I refer You, Gentlemen, to the Secret Committee of Congress) influences me to request that preference in your...
Date: 20 October 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Upon my arrival here from Auray, I had the Honor of receiving your's of the 15th Inst. the Contents of wch shall be fully and punctually observed. Mr Delamain who loaded the Prize from rochfort and was part owner, is in Nantes; has spoke to me relative to the Vessel and Cargo, which last he says was his property and says he cannot conceive that Cap. Wicks can by any means detain french property...
Date: 24 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I have the pleasure of informing you of the Arrival of a Brigt Yesterday in the Loire loaded with Tobacco from George Town on Sassafras River in Maryland — in her comes passenger Mr Robert Maise of Philada who has been with me to day — She left the Capes of Virginia the 15th Novemr . . . inclosed is a Letter which Mr Maise put into my hands. — Since your Departure from hence is also arrived Cap...
Date: 31 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
One of the former Prizes of Captain Wickes is now in this Port, & Captain [James] Pratchell, who is yet here, has made a reclamation, and demanded the Vessel. Upon his being refused the Vessel, he has obtained a summ.ons for Mr Penet & Self, signed by the first Judge of the Admiralty, to appear at the first Audience & give our Reasons for detaining his Property. The summons also...
Date: 22 February 1777
Volume: Volume 8
You may possibly be surprised at my addressing you from Paris, Cap. Larkin Hammond in the Jenifer Packet with Dispatches from Congress at Baltimore to our Commissioners here arrived at Nantes the 11th Instant, left Baltimore the 14th January and the Capes of Virginia the 4th February bringing accts as late only as the 9th January, the Date of his last Letter in Congress, and Cap. Hammond not...
Date: 18 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8