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I am desired to acquaint you that Mr Samuel Allen (by the desire of the principal part of the Inhabitants of this Place) is sent to you to know the Minds of the Provincial Congress, whether it is most proper at this Time for the Merchants in this Place to send their Vessels and Provisions to sea or not, your early proposing the same to that Respectable Body will much oblige your most humble...
Date: 1 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
that your Petitioner together with Several other Persons his Partner have at their own Expence fitted an armed Sloop Called the Warren for the Purpose of Makeing reprisals on the Enemies of the united Colonies of North America agreeable to the laws and Regulations of this Colony which vessel is now near Ready for Sailing your Petitioner Humbly Prays that John Philips of Dartmouth may be...
Date: 5 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Mr John Tennet a French Gentleman has a Schooner in this Place nearly ready to Sail for Hispaniola, and is very desireous to employ her when She arrives there as a Privateer to cruize against the Vessels belonging to the Subjects of. the King of Great Britain, he proposes to mann her with French Sailors, except three or four Americans for Prize Masters, one of which waits on your Honour with this...
Date: 13 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7