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I wrote you by Colo [Eliphalet] Dyarr [Dyer] and Mr [Silas] Dean (our Colony Deligates to the Contential Congress) Desireing you would let them have what Money they should have Occasion for, to the Amount of Four or five Hundred Pounds Since that I received Your Favour by the Post and Am Sorry to hear You Could not Procure the Lead ー and Observe Your Saying that Melasses was in Demand I now Send...
Date: 5 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Yesterday John Mackkibbin in the Sloop Black Joke with 10000 Gallons Melasses, 15 Thousand wt of Coffee, 26 Thousand of Sugar Sailed for Phila Capt [Edward] Chappell is on Board as a Pilote and I have given him Orders to take the Sugar and Coffee on Shore without paying the Duty's and if it Can be Avoided not to pay any for the Melases for I think its time to lay that Matter Aside for the present...
Date: 12 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I wrote you the 12th Instant that Capt John Mackibbin in the Sloop Black Joke with a Cargo of Sugar Melasses and Coffee had Sail'd for Phila hope by the time this Comes to Hand he may be Arived. Have Nothing more to add Only hope You'l be Able to get the Sloop Out or at least Clear'd out before the times Expires for Clearing Out to a Forreign Port if it Cannot be Done,2 if You Can...
Date: 17 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Your favour of the 26th ulto is just come to hand, I join most heartily with you in hopeing, that the day is not far distant, when we shall have Peace and good Will towards Men, and our Trade renewed, so far (on its former footing) as shall be consistant with the true happiness and Intrest of both Countriesー
The Charges you mention on the Iron shall Order paid p Colo [William] Whipple, and shall...
Date: 14 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I would beg leave to offer my oppinion on a few particulars which Occur, to be necessary for our present safety.
First, That the floating Chevaux du freese's be brought and moored at their proper place, fit for sinking.
Secondly, The boom which at present is in a useless state, to be fix'd to the Piers as intended for service.
Thirdly, As the distance between the Eastmost piere and the west part...
Date: 15 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6