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Mr [Patrick] Henry did me the favr Yesterday to deliver me your Letter we have as yet had nothing agitated in Congress about Trade I hope and expect that the Time for Exportation will continue as it did though I have some Expectation that it will be moved to shorten it As the Event of any Motion of that Sort ought & I suppose will be allowed to be made public you shall have early Notice ー...
Date: 18 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I am sorry to tell you the Continent is not now so well furnished with powder as I expected much less ー I wish and Intreat you if there's any way of getting powder & Saltpetre into your place ー that you lay a Scheme for it before it is quite too late I imagine that powder may be got from the Cape ー or any of the foreign Islands or ports notwithstanding the contrary promises of the French...
Date: 2 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Dear Josa The Annapolis2 is not so forward as I reported ー Doctr Stewart his Son Geo. Diggs, Alex Hanson & I am told several others go in her the Doctor goes Home to take possession in full of his family Estate which it is said is several hundred a Year I wrote you a long Ltr by the Doctor which Care his Son I expect will deliver you I make no Doubt but that you will treat them...
Date: 28 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I inclose you'a Letter from Mr [Richard] Harrison which came under Cover together with a Bill of Lading for 74 Casks of Gunpowder each 50 wt in the Nancy Capt Cirvin, [George Curwen] to Messrs Willing & Morris We have ordered the powder into Mr Hollingsworths Care and requested him to forward it to you ー The Bill of Lading is for the Delivery of the Goods on Paymt of 46.5 ー in Dollars at 7/6...
Date: 20 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
We hear that some of our internal Enemies have been endeavouring to engage some of your best pilots to assist in bringing the Fleet round from New York to Delaware: I look on this as I suppose it is generally considered, as a strong Confirmation of the Opinion, that the British Army intend to make a push for Philadelphia and that the Fleet is to cooperate; it appears to me that if these Motions...
Date: 1 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
We have received repeated Accounts of your having impressed, and detained a number of Seafaring Men, and others, who either resided in, or were occasionally at Baltimore Town, and that besides the wrong to the Individuals, it's consequences have been injurious to the Town, in deterring People from going to Market there, for fear of being treated in the same manner. ー
We do not know that you can...
Date: 24 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Immediately on my Receipt of your Letter of the 12th of March; I laid it before the General Assembly . . .
I join in Sentiments with you, as to the Utility of stationing Callies on the Eastern Shore; some of ours are designed for that Service, but our utmost Efforts have not yet been effectual to get any one completely fitted. ー We have three in the Water, partly manned, and three others ready,...
Date: 24 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
This Morning Commodore [Walter] Brooke delivered me your Letter of the 25th Inst I immediately laid it before the Council and sent for the Capt of our Ship Defence to consult on the Subject; we have had a very free Conversation with him and Commodore Brooke. I wrote you the 24th giving you an Account of the Condition of our Row Callies, it is not much mended, the forewardest of them is on the...
Date: 29 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
. . . I should have been glad too to have told you that Capt Nicholson had acted the part of an open generous spirited Man who was ready to make Amends frankly for a Rudeness he had unadvisadly committed he has avoided saying one Word about discharging the Men nor has he as I have heard, though I have inquired, discharged them agreeable to the Order sent to him ー two Men indeed who had been taken...
Date: 14 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
We inclose you Copies of two Letters from Capt Nicholson and of one from us to him ー It would have given us pleasure, more on the Capts Account than our own, if we could have wrote you long ago, that he had frankly made us the Satisfaction we had a Right to expect: but we cannot but see, from his Letters, that he has no very good vVill to make Concessions; and that though his Friends as well as...
Date: 15 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Three Ships of War hove in Sight of this place Yesterday about Sunset; a large Fleet is extended about 15 or 20 Miles below till this Morning, the largest of the three Ships has now got above Annapolis the whole Fleet is under Sail and in Sight they amount to more than one hundred Sail 2 there appears to be amongst them a good many heavy Ships this Fleet seems to be more than equal to...
Date: 21 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Ordered that the Western Shore Treasurer pay to Patrick Hannan one hundred twenty three pounds, Sixteen Shillings & three pence for work done to the Chester Galley and thirty three pounds Seventeen Shillings & six pence for the use of Thos. Connoly ⅌ auth. passed the Bd. of Auth.
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Date: 6 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Ordered That the Western Shore Treasurer pay to Joseph Maccubbin Seventy six pounds Ten Shillings for Whiskey purchased for the Galley Independence ⅌ auth. passed the Bd.
Date: 7 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Your Favor of the 12th Inst was delivered to me last Friday,1 I received a Letter also at the same Time, from Messrs Samuel & Robert Purveyance2 informing me that they had good Reason to believe that Mr Governere3 of Curasoa was part Owner of the Sloop4 & Cargoe, and that the Captain was retailing the...
Date: 19 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
I inclose you the Draft of my Ltr. To Congress1 which contains all the Information I could give you abt. the Salt Sloop2 this Morning set out for Fredk. and shall return again as soon as I well can—No Money is sent to Kent or Cecil nor any Money or Salt to Mr. Dashell3 of Queen Anne p Gs.—I am afraid we shall be behind in our...
Date: 20 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11