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Sir, Your proposals for settling a truce between the town of Newport and Capt. Wallace we have received and examined, and as. the word unexamined in your proposals seems to us will not be complied with by Capt. Wallace, request you will leave the same out, as we apprehend it contrary to his instructions and the acts of Parliament, and are fearful it will greatly impede the wished for...
Date: 16 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Sir, Your proposals for a truce with this town were laid before us yesterday, by a Committee appointed to wait on you for that purpose. We should be happy in complying with them, but our very unhapply situation we fear is such, that however anxious we are to comply with your proposals, we shall not have it in our power, unless Capt. Wallace will please to consent and agree, that whatever...
Date: 16 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The Council having received the within from Capt. Wallace, consent that he shall be supplied, for his ships' use in this harbour, with two thousand pounds weight of beef per week; and has now requested six hogsheads of rum, which we think i[t] necessary he should be supplied with, as by the best information we can obtain, he has about five hundred men now to victual on board the vessels under his...
Date: 16 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Mr. Christopher Champlin, contractor for victualling the ships here, this day informed the Council, that he has now in his possession seventeen barrels of salted pork, and five casks of calivance, which he bought in June last for the use of the ships here, under the command of Capt. Wallace; and he informs us, that he some time since informed Capt. Wallace, that he had such provisions bought for...
Date: 17 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Mr Francis Malbone this day going on board Capt Wallace by order of the Council, in the Absence of Mr [Samuel] Dyre, He the Said Capt Wallace Immediately asked him the Opinion of the Town Relating the two officers2 taken the Night before in the Town & Carried to head Quarters whether it was not a Breach of the Truce, and was Answered by Mr Malbone that they were not taken by the...
Date: 1 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I am directed by the Freemen of this Town, in Town-Meeting assembled on the 24th, Instant to request the Favor that your Honor wou'd transmit me by Mr William Anthony who is dispatched with this Letter for that Purpose the Memorial that was proferred by them to the Honorable Continental Congress together with the Papers that accompanied it ー If your Honor desires that those Papers shou'd be...
Date: 25 January 1775
Volume: Volume 3