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Sir, We have received your letters with regard to the vessels sunk at Whetstone point, and altho' you declined acting in your first letter, we are pleased to find you have since accepted of the trust reposed in you by the Council of Safety, and we find by your last letter, that you have in part executed the same, by raising several of the vessels. ー you are des[i]rous of having some further...
Date: 14 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir, You are requested by the Council of Safety to purchase for the use of the public one good Scow proper for transporting heavy Cannon ー also let us know whether you can purchase any flat bottomed boats with 8 or 10 oars, that would carry fifty men each, or any Barges or whale boats ー please to let us hear from you, & the Price at which they may be got. ー if there be none to be had, whether...
Date: 6 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
We send you inclosed a copy of our agreement with Major [William] Horsey for the Schooner Friendship,2 ー also an Inventory of the Tackle &c which we request you will examine into, as Soon as she is fitted agreeable to contract, she is to be delivered over to you, or your order, and loaded with all possible dispatch. ー Can you recommend a proper Person to take the Command of her. ー...
Date: 24 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
We are well satisfied that Mr [John] Gibbons is worthy the Trust to which you have recommended him, therefore have appointed him Captain of the Friendship, being confident that you would not recommend any man, that was not hearty in the cause of America — Pray push out all the vessels under your care as fast as possible — the sooner they get out of the Capes, the less danger from the Enemy, as we...
Date: 6 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Sir Should Captain [William] Stone replevy the Brigg, 2 you will be pleased to let us know immediately that we may give the necessary Security, and proper orders to the Sheriff; Captn Stone petitioned the Convention, and by his own desire the Affair was postponed. — Should he now issue a Writ of Replevin, it can be only to obstruct the voyage, which [we] are determined, if possible,...
Date: 21 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
We request the favor of you to bid for the Brigg,2 that was taken by Captn Cooke and buy her for the State at all Events; also to take Care, and purchase the rum, or any other Part of the Effects, condemmed, that may be useful to the public, and are to be had at a moderate Price. — should you not care to act, be pleased to get some other Person to bid. — if the Snow Georgia, or any...
Date: 5 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
We received two Letters from you, one by Mr S: Steward the other by Mr [John] Crockett. — 'tis very well, that you purchased the Brigg, 2 two thirds .of her belongs to the State of Maryland, as also two thirds of all the other money the Prizes sold for, and so you may inform the Marshall, therefore we have sent only 2,000 Pounds Currency for her loading and Outfit, we do not expect...
Date: 31 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Sir, Captn Kelty comes up to take the command of the Ship you purchased for us the other day. — also to look out for men, we should be obliged to you to let us know whether a cargoe of Toho could be got for her Speedily at Baltimore Town and at what Price, also in what Time she could be loaded with flour and the Price of it. — Be pleased to let us hear from you, we request you would buy a Quarter...
Date: 15 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
We communicated to you our Intention to send the Lydia round to Potomack to Load but as she will want some Ballast we think right to advise you to purchase about sixty or eighty Hhds Tobacco for that Purpose, giving Thirty five Shillings for Elk Ridge and Thirty for Patuxent or Potomack Tobacco. This you will put in and dispatch the Ship of as soon as possible ー We are &c
Date: 15 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8