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Gentlemen, Having been disappointed in our design of reshipping the cargo of the ship Beulah (lately arrived from London) in another bottom, by which we were great sufferers, and though we then conceived that such our design, if executed, would have been a compliance with the resolution of the Congress: We acknowledge that to alleviate in some measure the great loss we sustained, we have been...
Date: 13 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Gentlemen, The annexed depositions contain as full and candid an account of the transaction relative to the landing the goods from the ship Beulah, as we are able to give; in the doing of which, we have studied to give the Committee, and our fellow citizens, the utmost Satisfaction we are capable of.
John Murray being obliged to go to Elizabeth Town, to take an inventory of the goods, found the...
Date: 15 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
JOHN MURRAY, of the city of New York, merchant, being duly sworn, saith, that the above is a full, just, and true inventory of all the goods which were lately taken out of the ship Beulah, at Sandy-Hook by the Deponent, and were by him landed at Elizabeth-Town in New-Jersey.2 That the deponent did, yesterday [March 14], voluntarily make an acknowledgment to the committee of Elizabeth...
Date: 15 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
To the Honble the Continental Congress now Sitting at Philadelphia
The Memorial of Robert Murray and John Murray of the City of New York Merchants Humbly Sheweth
That the Memorialists being owners of the Ship Dutchess of Gordon and expecting She would be in London by the time their orders could arrive there did, on the 7th of September last by a letter to Philip Sansom direct him to put certain...
Date: 14 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir Herewith you have a memorial to the [Provincial] Congress now Assembled together, with a Copy of the Papers Laid before the Continental Congress. We should take it as a favor if you would lay the whole before the Gentlemen as soon as possible. Your Compliance will much oblige [&c].
Date: 2 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Gentlemen: The annexed papers are Copies of what we laid before the Honble Continental Congress in consideration of which they came to the following Resolutions
[Inserted is extract from the Journal of the Continental Congress for May 27, 1775.]
From the foregoing it appears that to procure Restoration to Public favor, we have no Tribunal but yours to appeal to The annexed papers exhibit a full...
Date: 2 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1