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We have Authority to inform the Public, that the Right Honourable the Earl of Dartmouth1 has written circular Letters to the several Governors on the Continent, signifiying his Majesty's Command, that they take the most effectual Measures for arresting, detaining and securing, any Gunpowder, or any Sort of Arms or Ammunition, which may be attempted to be imported into the Colonies;...
Date: 10 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
Sir It is with the utmost Concern I find Myself called upon by my Duty to the King to communicate to You a most unhappy Affair perpetrated here this Day.
Yesterday in the Afternoon One Paul Rivere2 arrived in this Town Express from a Committee in Boston to another Committee in this Town, and delivered his Dispatch to Mr. Saml. Cutts a Merchant of this Town who immediately convened a...
Date: 14 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
Tuesday Se'nnight all the Cannon belonging to the Battery at New London were removed into the Country.
Date: 24 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
Since our last Captain [Elisha] Warner arrived here from New York ー A Quantity of Small-Arms, &c. lately arrived there from England, the Property of two Merchants of this Town, having been put on board Captain Warner, were seized and detained by the Officers of the Customs.1
Saturday last [December 31] the Hind Frigate, of 20 Guns, arrived at Newport from England.
Date: 7 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The latest Accounts from England, by Capt. Cochran,1 arrived at New York, are, that Orders have been given for the seizing every Ship, of what Nation soever, employed in conveying Arms or Ammunition to the Americans.
Date: 14 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Friends of Government (so called) at Marshfield, having applied to his Excellency General [Thomas] Gage for a military Force to protect them, we hear 120 Soldiers, with four Officers, were sent from Boston for that Purpose a few Days since.
Date: 28 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Rose Frigate and Swan Sloop, with the Tenders, are very vigilant in searching almost every Vessel that arrives in the River. ー Three Seizures have been made by them within a few Days past.
Date: 25 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The latter end of the week before last, 56 fireams, bayonets &c. with several casks of powder, were delivered out of a scooner, in our enemies service, to Thomas Gilbert, of Freetown, and his infamous associates, to counteract the measures adopted by the colonies for the preservation of their liberties.
Date: 25 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We hear a Number of Fire Arms, with a Quantity of Ammunition, have been sent from on board a Man of War at Newport, to Col. Thomas Gilbert, and his Tory-Adherents, at Freetown.
Date: 1 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On Wednesday last [April 26], as two of our Packet-Boats were returning from Newport, without about 300 Barrels of Flour, the Property of Mr. John Brown, Merchant of this Place, (who was on board one of them) they were taken into Custody by the Men of war stationed there, ー and one of the Packets, with Mr. Brown on board, and 200 Barrels of Flour, we hear has since been sent to Boston.
The Troops...
Date: 29 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Mr. John Brown, of this place, merchant, whom we mentioned in our last to hav'e been taken in a packet boat, and sent to Boston, has been released by the Admiral and General and returned here on Wednesday night [May 3].
Date: 6 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We hear that two small Vessels having been lately seized by the Men of War at Newport, and fitted out as Cruizers, for the Purpose of robbing and plundering the Sea Coast, in order to supply their Fellow-Ruffians at Boston with fresh Provisions, the Inhabitants of Dartmouth dispatched an armed Sloop to take them, which was accomplished; one of them struck without making any Resistance, the other...
Date: 20 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Saturday Night last[May 20] four armed Vessels, well manned, were sent from Boston to an Island near Weymouth, in order to take on board a Quantity of Hay that had been procun:d for the Use of the ministerial Army ー They were discovered early on Sunday Morning, when a Number of the Inhabitants put off for the Island in a Gondola, who drove the Enemy on board their Vessels, burnt a large Quantity...
Date: 27 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A Number of the inhabitants of Plymouth, we learn, went a few Days since to Nantucket in Whaleboats, and took from thence 800 barrels of Flour, the Property of a Merchant at Dartmouth, and which it is supposed was intended to be smuggled into Boston, for supplying the ministerial Army.1
Date: 3 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sunday last [June 4] the schooner Pelican, Capt. Tucker, arrived at Marblehead from London in Ballast, and brought Dispatches for General [Thomas] Gage and Admiral [Samuel] Greaves which were immediately secured by the Committee of that place and sent to the Provincial Congress at Watertown ー The contents of them have not yet transpired.
Date: 10 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
It is voted and resolved, that the letter written by His Honor the Deputy Governor to James Wallace, Esq., commander of His Majesty's Ship Rose, and Capt. Wallace's answer, be published in the next Newport Mercury, and Providence Gazette.2
Date: 16 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
[Here are inserted: Lieutenant Governor Nicholas Cooke to Captain James Wallace, R.N., June 14, 1775 and Captain James Wallace, R.N. to Lieutenant Governor Nicholas Cooke, June 15, 1775]
On Thursday last [June 15], soon after the above insolent Answer was returned to the Deputy-Governor, as one of the Packets mentioned in His Honor's Letter, which had been piratically seized and detained by Capt...
Date: 17 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We have a Letter come to Town from Saco, giving an account of two vessels, with Provisions from [Thomas] Gage, under the Protection of a Tender, having arrived at that Place, in order to exchange said Provisions for Lumber; the Committee of that Town considered of the Propriety of suffering them to trade, and from Necessity were obliged to admit them; after this they discovered great Partiality...
Date: 22 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Saturday last [June 17] his Majesty's ship Rose, Capt. [James] Wallace, and the Swan Sloop Capt [James] Ayscough, with a Tender, came up the River as far as Connanicut Point; but not meeting with any prey, they returned to their station at Newport; while on this cruize, five Vessels, which they had piratically taken, and left in the Harbour of Newport, were boarded by a Number of People, and...
Date: 24 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Tuesday night [July 11] a party of the Americans went in boats to Long-Island, in Boston Bay, and brought off 18 horned cattle, 40 sheep, 5 hogs, a horse, and some valuable goods, the property of our enemies; they likewise brought 17 men, and a negroe, that had been making hay for the regular army. ー On Wednesday night the party returned to the island, where they burnt a quantity of hay.
Date: 15 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1