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I most readily Accept of your Voluntary and very Spirited Offer for this Service, and therefore must desire that you will proceed with your Officers and Men to New Town in Berks County and there take into your Care & Command All the Iron Cannon & their Amunition you find at that place, and proceed with them to Trentown Ferry and there place them in such position on this Side of Delaware...
Date: 22 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
In Consequence of the New Orders published by Capt Parker of the Phoenix, Since his Arrival at N York, all Vessels coming from foreign Countries to that port, receive on the Coast, orders to Come into this province, and if possible to this place; Several are already arrived in Princes Bay, and in the Sound between this and Amboy, some of the Owners of them being apprehensive that the Men of War...
Date: 19 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
On Monday last [January 22] I received Intelligence that a Transport laden with Stores for the Ministerial Army at Boston was hovering off Sandy Hook in distress & waiting for Assistance from the Men of War at N York I thought it a Matter of so much Importance that I immediately set out for Amboy, and there Seized a pilot Boat and with forty Men was Just pushing out about two yesterday...
Date: 24 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
My Letter to you of the 24th from on Board of the Ship Blue Mountain Valley, off Amboy I hope you received. the Next day we got her into the Sound near Blazeing Star, where she Grounded, but by lightening her, we got of[f] again Yesterday Morning, and brought her up to Elizabeth point where she now lies, under the Care of Capt [William] Rogers is [sic] whose Charge for the Use of the Continent...
Date: 27 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
I do now deliver into your Custody and charge, and you are hereby Authorized and directed in behalf and on account of the Continental Congress to take charge of the ship Blue Mountain Valley lately commanded by Captain John Hamilton Demptser, and now lying at or near Elizabeth Town point in New Jersey with all her Cargoe and Stores, and the same to preserve & Secure in the best Manner you can...
Date: 27 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Sir, I received your letter of the 25th respecting the 100 Stand of Arms which you were to have Supplyed me with. I shall lay the letter before the Continental Congress and the Convention which meets this week at Brunswick in hopes that some other means may be taken for providing an equal Number.
A Certain Ship is lately Arriv'd here with Stores, 2 some of which perhaps may be of use...
Date: 28 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
The Cargoe of the Ship Blue Mountain Valley is now Cheifly unladen and brought up to this Town except the Coal which it will be best to take out as it is disposed of. I have as yet received no orders from Congress relateing [to] this Ship, nor no answer to the three Letters to you relateing her since her Capture and of which it was impossible for me to keep Copies. Capt [John Hamilton] Dempster...
Date: 2 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
I have this Moment received General Lee's Command to Join him with five hundred Men of my Regiment at New York. I propose setting out to Morrow Morning with about half that Number, and Now send Orders for the remainder to follow me from Brunswick & Amboy. we have as yet received No powder. I was obliged to Borrow for the two last Excursions, and will now try to do the best we can on this...
Date: 5 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3