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Sunday last the Glasgow man of war, Capt [Tyringham] Howe, with four vessels under her convoy, sailed for England: ー In this fleet went many Gentlemen of Distinction, viz. Francis Legge, Esq; Governor, and James Monk, Esq; Solicitor-General of this Province, Gov. [James] Wright of Georgia, Thomas Oliver, Esq; Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts-Bay, and President of the Council, Hon. Peter...
Date: 14 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Wednesday last was sent in here by the Orpheus Frigate, Capt. Hammond [sic Charles Hudson], a French schooner, which by her course when taken was bound to Block Island near Connecticut.
Friday afternoon sailed the Lively man of war, Capt. [Thomas] Bishop.
The same evening sailed the Ship Adamant, Capt. Wilson, for London.
Saturday arrived the Senegal Sloop of War, Capt. [William] Duddingston....
Date: 28 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Last Week arrived at Rhode-Island, the True-blue, taken by the Columbus Frigate, laden with Rum, Sugar, Coffee, &c.1
To Be Sold, By Joshua Ward, Agent for the Owners of the Privateer Schooner Dolphin, at Public Auction, to be held at Salem, in the County of Essex, the 26th Instant, to be continued from Day to Day until the whole is Sold, to the highest Bidder, the following Vessels...
Date: 18 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
By Captain Joseph Cook, of the Schooner Elizabeth, who arrived at Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, Yesterday from Canso, in Nova-Scotia, we are favored with Two Halifax Papers, of the Fourteenth and Twenty-eighth of May: They contain many lengthy Articles of Importance to the Public from London, down to the Nineteenth of April; but the Multiplicity of other Business in the Office prevents giving our...
Date: 19 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
We hear that Captain [Joseph] White in a Privateer Schooner1 belonging to this Place has taken and sent into Beverly a large Sloop with One Hundred and Fifty Puncheons of Rum, said to be [bound from An]tigua to Ireland, which he took in his Passage for the West-Indies.2 This is the second Prize he has taken and sent home.3 When the above Sloop left him, he was in...
Date: 2 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
July 14....we were alarmed by some of the Men of War getting under Sail and making for the City; we immediately repaired to our Alarm Posts, which are at such a Distance from the River that we had not a Chance to fire a Gun, but had a beautiful Prospect of the whole Engagement. We saw them pass by Ten of our Batteries, they all kept an incessant Fire upon them until out of Reach, but had not so...
Date: 14 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sunday last was sent in here by Capt. [Peter] Lander in a Letter of Marque Schooner belonging to this Place, 1 a Sloop from the West-Indies, bound to Halifax, laden with Salt: She has on Board some Brass Blunderbusses, and a Quantity of English Goods; was taken about a Fortnight ago.
About the same Time was taken by the above Letter of Marque, a Ship from Jamaica, bound to London, laden with...
Date: 23 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Ten Dollars Reward.
Deserted from the Sloop Tirannicide, John Fisk, Commander, in the Service of this State, on Sunday last the Twenty-first Instant, Two Seamen, one named Andrew Burnett, about Twenty-seven Years of Age, a smooth-faced Man, about Five Feet Five Inches high, wears dark Hair: Had on when he deserted, a dark-colored Waistcoat and Breeches, and was born in Great-Britain. ー The other...
Date: 24 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5