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A resolve has passed giving the enemy's vessels & cargoes to the crews who shall bring them into our ports ー we perceive the enemy by a similar practice encourage our Sailors to be guilty of highest perfidy & breach of trust, we must counter act them with their own arts. ー Several of our vessels from the perfidiousness of the crews, consisting chiefly of English sailors, have been carried...
Date: 10 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
The ship Seine wh arrived at Martinico with military stores for the united States, in sailing from Martinico for Boston was taken by a english frigate the morning after she left Martinico: a considerable part of her cargo was landed at Martinico, part of wh is just arrived in a sloop 2 wh has got in to Sinapuxent inlet consists principally of muskets. ー
The Govr of Martinico Count D'...
Date: 12 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
There are ten ships in the Bay coming up towards Newcastle: I fifty gun ship 1 forty four, 2 frigates, a Brig & 4 tenders & a pilot boat, no transports: we imagine These ships are come up to water & get live stock.
The enemy are yet quiet: I suppose they will not attempt any thing of consequence till the[y] receive reinforcements from Europe: by the time those reinforcements arrive, I...
Date: 24 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8