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Sir We deliver you herewith two Letters from the secret Committee of Congress, one directed to Messr Adrian Le Maitre & Mr Richard Harrison at Martinico, whereby they are directed to pay the Nt Proceeds of a Cargo of Provisions Consign'd them p the Sloop Fanny Capt Britton to our Order & We have endorsed on said Letter that the Payment is to be made to you; ー the other Letter is directed...
Date: 3 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
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
We are sorry for your Disappointment of the Sloop Hornet, but in Consequence thereof, We have procured an Order to despatch the Ship Reprisal Capt Lambert Wickes & herewith we send you the Letters & Orders for Capt Wickes & Capt Hallock, which they will comply with & you will consequently take your Passage for Martinico on board the Reprisal Capt Wickes & hoping for a speedy...
Date: 10 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
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
You will find inclosed herein Invoice and bill of Loading for hhds of Tobacco and Tons barr Iron which we have Shipped on board the Sloop Independance John Young Master for Martinico Consigned to your order for Sale on accot of the United States of America, you will please to have this Cargo sold to the best advantage and Credit the Secret Committee for the Neat proceeds, We hope the Brigt...
Date: 20 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Your several letters of the 4th. 15th & 26th August to this Committee have beeh duly riceived with the skeral enclosures and the whole have been laid before the Congress. We can therefore communicate that satisfaction which we dare say it must afford you to know that you have so far obtained the approbation of that august Body
It is not necessary that we shou'd enter into minute reply to the...
Date: 21 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
We have shipped 1000 bbls flour onboard the Ship Betsey ー Capt Wm Stevens for your address on Account & Risque of the United States of America agreeable to the enclosed Invoice & bill of Loading The Captn has liberty either. to go into St Lucia or Martinico just as winds or other Circumstances may serve. You will therefore receive this flour at either place and cause it to be sold to the...
Date: 24 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
[Philadelphia]
We are now at the 1st of October & have heard from Mr. Deane after his arrival at Bourdeaux his last letter is dated 23d June when he was just setting out for Paris. We have later intelligence than his In Consequence of which we desire you to enquire of the General & Governor whether they have recd any Arms or Ammunition from Monsr. Hortalez with directions to deliver the...
Date: 1 October 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 You have herewith a Copy of a letter we wrote you the 20th Ulto by the Sloop Independance Capt [John] Young which we hope may arrive safe as well as the Ship Betsey Capt Stevens and they will furnish you with some Funds in addition to what you received by the Brigt Cornelia & Molly Capt Lockard which is safely returned & by her we received your favour of the 24th Ulto the Contents...
Date: 21 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
In Secret Committee
Sir
Philada Novr 22d 1776
We hope you may in due time Receive this letter by Capt Stevens of the Continental Schooner Lewis — which goes from hence to Carolina where we have directed her to be loaden with Rice & Indico for Your address, We hope she may arrive safe & deliver You a Valuable Cargo, the Rice you will sell of course, but it is not likely the Indico will...
Date: 22 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
This will be delivered to you by Capt. Geo. Ord who takes his passage with Monsr Cotiney de Prejent in the Ship Esperance for Guadaloupe he is a worthy, Active, Industrious, Honest Man in whom you may safely repose confidence at least such is the Character he has hitherto borne & such is my good oppinion of him —
Under this opinion, from Mr Prejents solicitation's, and from a desire to comply...
Date: 4 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
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
We expect this will be delivered to you by John Nicholson Esqr who commands the Hornet Sloop of war belonging to the Continent. She will carry you some Rice and Indigo by order of the Secret Committee which you'l please to receive expeditiously. As this sloop touches at Carolina before she mils for the West Indies it is uncertain when you may see [her], therefore our orders must be discretionary...
Date: 14 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Since receiving yours of the 4th and 5th of Au?;USt last I have wrote you repeatedly, and have no doubt of your receipt of them, to which refer you. You are in the neighbourhood of St Vincent, and I learn that the Caribbs are not contented with their Masters, and being an artful as well as revengeful People would undoubtedly take this opportunity of throwing off a yoke, which nothing but a...
Date: 17 October 1776
Volume: Volume 7
. . . Congress has ref erred the matter of remittance for discharge of the obligation which you and Mr [Richard] Harrison have entered into, to the State of Maryland, from whence you will no doubt receive remittance as soon as the British Ships of War now in Chesapeake Bay will permit. It is a singular misfortune to us, and very injurious to the Commerce of France, that we have not two or three...
Date: 1 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
You will find enclosed herein an Invoice & bill of Loading for 31 casks of the best Carolina Indico containing 8795 lb & 35 bbls of Superfine flour the whole amounting to £ 4731. 18..6 this currency being Invoiced at the real cost, by which you will see how high a price these articles stand in here and we hope you will exert yourself to make them bring an equivalent in Martinico, You will...
Date: 26 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7