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Congress are in immediate Want of a fast sailing Vessell. Every Endeavor has been used to procure one without Success nor have they least Chance left of getting one unless your honorable Board will spare Capt [John] Martin's Brig.2 I should by no Means ask the Favor, knowing how necessary this Vessel is to the State of Maryland, if the Occasion was not of the most pressing Nature....
Date: 25 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
It is the Wish of the Committee of secret Correspondence to avoid as much as possible doing Injury to the State of Maryland, for which Reason they return you many Thanks for your obliging Compliance with their Request as to the Brig 2 but seeing the great Prejudice their taking of her would be to the State most willingly give her up, provided the Council will favor them with a small...
Date: 29 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I do not know that I have been so vex'd with myself for some time, as I am for not informing you that the secret [committee] has bo't a fast sailing vessel which is now ready to sail for Nantes, and is only detain'd for a certain acct of our General's success.2 Faulty as I am you must give me some little credit when I tell you it proceeded from my not doubting your getting the...
Date: 8 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
I left New York on Wednesday last [February 7], Genl Clinton was then there and I beleive on his way to Virga to meet a fleet which he expected from England, he gave out that he was to go to the Southward but you must prepare for him, for I think he will most assuredly Stop with you, as he certainly intends to Hampton Road to wait for his Troops which are to Rendezvous there, should he land them...
Date: 13 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3