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The New Englanders are fitting out light vessels of war, by which it is hoped we shall not only clear the seas and bays here of everything below the size of a ship of war, but that they will visit the coasts of Europe and distress the British trade in every part of the world. The adventurous genius and intrepidity of those people is amazing.2
Date: 4 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Commodore'[s] excuse for not going to Souther[n] colonies agreeable to orders.
[Be]fore he left capes of Delaware, he heard the Liverpool was joined to Ld Dunmore, wch made enemy an overmatch. & many of his men sea sick.
he did not go to N. Carolina bec. [he] recd intelligce the enemy's force hd gone from there & from S. Cara to Georgia. (his men recovd as he got to the Southward)
he...
Date: 15 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The ministry were determined to push the war with vigor, a measure in which they were fixed by the defeat of the Spaniards by the Moors. 90. brass cannon were embarked from the tower and may be hourly expected either at N. York or Boston. 2000 troops were to sail from Ireland about the 25th. Sep. These we have reason to beleive are destined for N. York. Commodore Shuldam was to sail about the...
Date: 10 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
A small vessel was the other day cast away on the Jersey shore (she was one of the transports which had some time ago brought over troops to Boston), on board of which were a captain, with his subordinate officers and marines, amounting to 23 in all, and also a Duncan Campbell, who was going to recruit men at New York for General Gage, he having some time before undertaken the same business in...
Date: 24 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I have it in my power to acquaint you that the successes of our arms have corresponded with the justice of our cause. Chambly and St. John's have been taken some weeks ago, and in them the whole regular army in Canada except about 40. or 50. men. This day we receive certain intelligence that our General Montgomery is received into Montreal: and expect every hour to be informed that Quebec has...
Date: 29 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
One of our armed vessels has taken an English storeship coming with all the implements of war (except powder) to Boston. She is worth about £30,000 sterling as General Washington informs us, and the stores are adapted to his wants as perfectly as if he had sent the invoice. 2 They have also taken two small provision vessels from Ireland to Boston; a forty gun ship blew up the other...
Date: 10 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
We have late advices from England, which you will see in the inclos'd papers. I had rather send you a dozen Ledgers and Evening Posts, 2 than transcribe three paragraphs out of them. But I have good News for you, which neither of these papers contains. A Vessel arriv'd two nights ago with 60 Tons of Salt Petre, 13 Tons of Gunpowder and 2000 Stands of Arms and we are in daily...
Date: 4 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3