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Gentlemen Immediately after the Reception of your Letters & Pamphlets, I went to Albany to find the State of the Lakes . . . I found the Lakes impassable at that time ー About a Fortnight after I set out for Canada and arrived at St Johns in 14 Days having undergone most inconceivable hardships the Lake Champlain being very high, the Small Streams Rivers, and a great Part of the Country for...
Date: 29 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
It appears to me & others; that there is wanted in this Government some Armd Vessells to ward off the distressing Piraticull blos that without doubt will be struck: by Admll Samll Graves's small Men a war & Tenders; by taking from us our inward bound Provisions; Molasses, & Salt Vessells, &c &c as they have don Will allmost bring on a famin in our Army, & on the...
Date: 4 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A Schooner belonging to the Ewings, sails this Night, for Salem and fm thence, to New-Providence in Order, to fetch Fruit & Turtle for the army. She is Commanded by one Mr. Hammer, But in order to deceive the Publick, one Mr Thomson of Medford a reffuge in town, has the Name of Chartering the Vessel; Thomson himself has Confessed it, to a friend, and that friend informd me, ー Now, Sir, if you...
Date: 10 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1