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I am much pleased to hear you have Sold the Sloop and as time have but a verry Gloomy appearance I wish both the other Veshells were Sold, provided they were well sold ー however you neglected to let me know what You are to get for the Sloop . . . I heard this after noon by Express from Rhode Island that a part of the Troops Expected at Boston from Ireland are arrived and Landed at Boston, and...
Date: 20 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
By a Veshel arrived about an hour ago, from Bristol, We have a London paper informing us of the Arrival of the Veshel that Went Express from the people of Boston to London Giving them an Accot of the Battle of Lexington ー upon the Spreading of this News there, the Ministry (it seems) published in the papers that they had Recd no accounts from America by this many people were lead to discredit...
Date: 27 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
One of our Rifle-men that Travelled across the Country with [Benedict] Arnold, and taken prisoner while on Centry at Quebec, was sent to England: a few days after he landed, he was sent to London and put in Bridawell in Irons ー Sawbridge (the Lord Mayor) went to him, Examined him and had him imediately discharged & sent down to Bristol, where a number Gentn procured him a passage to Halifax....
Date: 22 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Mr. Ball the Lieutt. is now fixed at Germantown. Since the return of the Liverpool into our Capes, there has been another attempt of the Committee of Safety here, to have Ball Exchanged for Captn. Budden, but Totally rejected by Congress ー
Date: 29 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Since I saw you in Newcastle, I have been treating with a Carpenter of this place, who engages to build and have ready for launching a Vessel by the Middle of October provided we procure three or four Workmen for him ー At present he has but two, and says it will take six hands to build her in ten weeks: ー The Dimensions agreed on are 54 feet Keel, 20 feet Beam and 8 feet Hold. The Dimensions of...
Date: 1 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Yesterday Came to Town a Ship belonging to the Congress from France with ten Tunns of Powder, about forty Tunns of Lead, one thousand Stand of Arms &c. &c: And the Same day an Armed Veshell taken by Captain [John] Barry2
At seaー
Since I finished my other Letter have been up to Congress where We Recd Inteligence by letter from Captn. Weeks [Lambert Wickes] in the Congress ship,...
Date: 3 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
P.S. One [William] Woodcock, at Wilmington, has been speaking to me about a privateer he was applied to to build by Captain [Charles] Pope. He says he has a parcel of carpenters sent to him and cannot go on for want of the iron-work, rum, &c. Some person among you ought to go immediately and enter into a contract with him and find the means of supplying him.
Date: 21 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I am glad you are Sending the Sloop up to Sell, and hope you'l not delay doing it least some of the men of War now at New York Should be thought no longer necessary there, and be sent to our Capes, A Circumstance of this Sort would inevitably knock up the Sale of all kinds of Veshells, for it is the Trade they are now pushing that keeps up the demand for them, and the men of War Comeing to the...
Date: 22 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
While poor David Beverige was at Lewis his Brig came in loaded with Sugars, Molasses and Coffee. She has since run upon the Chevaux De Frise and immediately sunk in five-fathom-water, ー no part insured ー one or two river boats have struck and been sunk by them the moment they touched ー I mention this that you may give strict orders to your people to be careful in passing them with the New-...
Date: 27 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The letter you wrote to [Thomas] Collins & the copy of the Council's order I delivered, & conversed with him on the subject ー Mr. Collins was of opinion with me, that it would be more prudent to employ some person in Phila who had been accustomed to that kind of trade than to join with the New-Castle Co. people in the expedition they then had on foot. The applying to a proper person here...
Date: 4 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3