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Be pleased to spare me one Quarter cask of powder, to prove four Howitz, and four sets of Organs, which I have prepared for a Vessel, that I do not doubt will be of service to this country.
Be pleased also, to order my Salary paid from the seventeenth of October last, as first Naval Commander in the American service, which station I obtaineg by the consent and Agreement of the Honourable...
Date: 31 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
The Commanding officer on board the sloop will receive on board her as a passenger Captain James Smith now at Crown point & land him where the officer is ordered to land the sloop's Cargo next voyage ー
By order of the General
Date: 10 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Gentlemen My being permited to go down with the Galleys yesterday, gave me an opportunity of makeing some remarks & my beleiveing it a duty to offer to your consideration what I think may be of service to the Country, makes me lay those remarks before you. The flatness of there bottoms, makes them roll so much when there is anny sea, that shot fired [by] them, cannot be certainly directed; [...
Date: 29 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
May it please the Honorable Congress to be informed, that your humble servant wishes to leave this place tomorrow morning and proceed to some part of France as Speedily as possible;—Where I shall build a Vessel on a new construction, that will carry two, thirty two pounders, and eight 9 Inch Howitzers,with One Hundd: & Fifty Men.—With this Vessel I intend to Cruize for British East...
Date: 19 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11