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And[rew] Knox sent me an Order but it came too late no Ships now take in Goods for Virginia, you must therefore give me your Orders if you would have me send them, to [North] Carolina, for they continue to ship goods still to your Province.
Date: 22 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
There is an account received that the Transports are sailed from Cork, and next week, the Generals [William] Howe, [John] Burgoyne and [Henry] Clinton, follow them from hence in a Man-of-War; some of these troops are destined for New York, and two Companies, with a Sloop, are to be sent to Georgia . . .
They say your Seaports are to be turned into garrison Towns, and the people of the Country...
Date: 7 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My endeavours to get a few Muskets for your Troops have hitherto been fruitless it is impossible to procure any here at this time, many of the Continental Troops in this City and in New York are without any, we are greatly distressed on that Account, some of our Vessels have returned without any, some have brought a few, a very few, and several that were expected with a Considrable quantity are...
Date: 16 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Dear Sir I have received your favors of the 23d of May, 6th & 11th of June, the first of these came last to hand, I have not had an oppertunity to forward your Letter to Elmsley, Tryon is not to be trusted with it, I shall send it by some Vessel bound to France or Spain, I cannot find out any other way of conveyance, and that is precarious,
I received a Letter from your Committee of Secrecy...
Date: 8 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Our privateers have been successfull ー I will not say any of our Continental Ships lest I should infringe upon Hews' department2 I fear that the Want of Men & Cannon will prove an insuperable Obstacle to their Movements.
Date: 27 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Notwithstanding the respect I have entertained for your private character, notwithstanding my repugnance to oppose to its merits your conduct in public and political transactions, during the present unnatural, unhappy and much to be lamented contest between Great Britain and her Colonies, which my long forbearance towards you must have evinced, you have reduced me to the necessity I wished to...
Date: 7 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
It is now I imagine near three Weeks since your Provincial Council broke up and I take it for granted you have sent an express with the account of your deliberations to your Delegates here, we expect it dayly and are Anxious for its Arival. I hope you have fallen on some method to furnish your Soldiers with Arms and Amunition, those Articles are very Scarse throughout all the Colonies, I find on...
Date: 9 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
In your favour of the 5th of November the only one I have received from you I observe the plan you Adopted to get Arms and Amunition and your wish that the general Association had not been infringed, I have often wished the same thing, the Congress having adopted and pursued a Similar mode and on a much larger Scale; [however], altho' we have not yet reaped much advantage from it, I have altered...
Date: 6 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
The express who come [with] this will inform you by a letter to the Provincial Council of North Carolina addressed by their delegates, that Genl [Henry] Clinton is at New York in the Mercury of 26 Guns bound to Hampton in Virginia with 3 transports of 200 light troops, there to join 7 Regts from England & from thence proceed to North Carolina, & in all probability to Cape fear; as they go...
Date: 6 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
I have but just time to enclose you a Copy of a Letter from the Committee of Safety of New York; Our Accts from the Camp are that two Regiments in a number of Transports Men of War, Bomb Vessels &c. are sailed, Supposed for Virga or the Carolinas, that General [Henry] Clinton had sail'd with them, I hope Our province will be on their guard, and that You are in great forwardness with your...
Date: 6 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
I have got a waggon made, have purchased four good Horses and expected to have sent them off on yesterday but when I went to examine the Powder in the Magazine I found to my surprise there was none but Cannon powder and that very coarse & orderly not fit for musketry knowing the greatest part that is wanted for our province ought to be musket powder I thought it best to detain the Waggon till...
Date: 11 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
I mentioned to you some time ago that a Vessell was arrived here with near Sixty Tons of Salt Petre on board and that several quantities of powder had been brought in, a few days since another Vessell arrived in this same River and is now kept below by the Ice She has Sixty Tons of Saltpetre, 13 Tons of Powder & 1300 muskets on board, These supplies appear considerable and yet we find by...
Date: 13 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
The Bearer Mr Goddard intending to go as far as Georgia to establish A Continental Post office under proper regulations thro the Southern Colonies I embrace the opportunity to entertain you with a line or two on politicks
By Numbers of Letters from Great Britain & Ireland the Colonies [are] threatened with inundations of Roman Catholick, Hanoverian, Hessian and Russian Soldiers, from the best...
Date: 13 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3