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You will find enclosed herein a Copy of our letter to Mr Saml Beall respectg the Adventure in Powder under his management in which we have interested you to the Amount of Five hundred pounds Sterlg & as it is most likely he will come out with his Goods Via Martinico we hope You will have the pleasure of Seeing him there, If he comes out to St Eustatia lodge orders for you to be informed of it...
Date: 3 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir We were much Concerned to find you were so long detained at Cape May, but as you did at last escape clear of the Men of Warr on this Coast, we hope you will arrive safe at Your destined Port and there be able to execute your Commission to be very satisfactory to all Concerned,2 We are told Mr LaMaitra arrived safe at Martinico but have no Certainty of it,3 sorry we are...
Date: 24 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
1776.
Dollars
Hdths
Jany—
To Secret Committee for the following sums received from them this month — Vizt —
Cash of George Clymer Esqr for the Committees order
4000.
Robert Morris order on Geo. Clymer favor E Brown
4000.
Ditto " " Ditto Jos Shallcross & Co—
4000.
Ditto " " Ditto...
Date: 14 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Your several favours of the 2nd, 15th & 26th August have come duely to hand, the last by the Reprisal Capt. Wickes who arrived here Yesterday without having taken any more Prizes or met with any Remarkable occurrence. We shall reply to the Contents of your letters in the order they stand or at least to such parts as require an answerー
The observations you make on the different modes of...
Date: 14 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
We have wrote you very fully by Capt. [John] Young which are hopeful may reach you soon as this in that letter you were advised the safe Arrival of the Reprisal Capt. Wickes who delivered us safely the sundry Goods you shipped by him of wh before long we shall render you a pleasing Account Sale and in order that you may be able to pay for them in due time we now ship you by this Ship Bettsy Capt...
Date: 24 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
We have wrote fully to our Mr Thos Morris respecting Insurances & desired if he can effect Insurance on Ships & Goods from the West India Islands to this Continent & Vice Versa, to inform you of it immediately. We have wrote him & several of our Friends to send us letters News papers, Goods & Merchandize, Via Martinico under your care & we beg your particular care of them...
Date: 27 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
having lately written to Mr [Thomas] Ringgold and Mr [Robert] Hooe on the Subject of our engagement to Your State, we immagined you wou'd not have been uninformd of the many disapointments we have met with in the Several adventures undertaken for the purpose of procuring Arms & Ammunition. We had lately a Schooner taken & carried into the West Indias with a fine Cargo onboard &...
Date: 30 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
...Your favor of the 24th Septr or rather the Copy of it was handed us yesterday by Capt Lockhart of ー the Brigt Cornelia & Molly which arrived here safe and we have this day sold the Molasses at Publick Vendue for upwards of 6 P Gal & Mr Harrison & your Limes for 401 to 50 P bbl they are rather plenty You see it is hard to form just opinions concerning adventures in our present...
Date: 20 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Sir We have already wrote you by this Conveye but we have just recd your favour of the 31st Octr by the Molly Capt [Thomas] Conway arrived safe into Maryland & those of the 3d & 5th Novr by Monsr Blaquiere who is just arrived at Chester. You observe our Tobacco by Capt Stevens cost high & the freight out of the way. had you been here when it was shipped you wou'd not have thought so,...
Date: 6 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
In Septr 1775 Willing Morris & Co entered into a Contract with the Secret Committee and received 45000 Dollars in advance thereon, Mr Wm Duncan a Worthy Active Young Gentleman of the City of Philada was jointly Concerned in this Contract tho not named. We bought the Ship Duke of York3 Capt Higgins & sent her for Hamburg in Ballast the said Mr Duncan going passenger in order to...
Date: 6 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Its a long time since we have had the Pleasure of paying our respects to you, and you will not be at a loss to assign reasons for this Silence, Therefore we need not take up your or our own time, in Offering them ー We have now before us your Sundry Letters Dated the 2nd 5th & 18th May 3d & 6th June 4 July & 2nd August, and make due note of all Articles of acct Mention'd therein....
Date: 9 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
As the present unhappy Contest between Gr. Britain & the No Am: Colonies has the Appearance of lasting some time, during which the Intercourse with your part of the World must become less frequent than formerly and our Interest on the Missisippi being Considerable, we think it necessary to appoint attorneys to superintend & take Care of it for us, the long Friendship & Connection...
Date: 17 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
There is a Brigt called the Nancy & Molly commanded by Captn John Green that is our property altho she now appears in other Colours being registred at Pensacola in the Name of Mr Oliver Pollock of New Orleans who lately sent her with a Cargo of Lumber from the Mississippi to BBdos from whence she took a Freight to New York & by the Newspapers we find she is now there We suppose she will...
Date: 20 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9