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I Recd yours by Mr Osborn wherein you Desire Me to Send you the Length and Size of the Ships Stays to gether with the Qnty of Lines worming, Marling, and Housling, to gether with the Length and Size of Main and Fore Shrouds which Must be Cable Laid and of the Best of Rusia hemp2 ー In Regard to My acct, I am about to Gett them Ready for You as I Suppose this Week will be the Most...
Date: 19 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
We are duly favor'd with yours of the 27th Ulto and have Observed the Contents. The 16 Inch Cable which you say you have had Offer'd to you at 75 PCt would recommend for you to Accept it ー the Other shall be forwarded agreeable to your desire ー As to the Hemp it is engaged and was in expectation of its being delivered at this place in this, however are now promised to have it down some time in...
Date: 1 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I recd yours of 3d Inst And According to your Order have Calld On Capt Dennis Concerning the 16 Inch Cable & find he has Not Engag'd it but desird I woud which I must Acquaint you is at Present out of my power, as is allso the Two Tons I wrote you about, for since yours of the 27th May the price of Common Cordage is rose to £ 4..10..0 & by your Not Concluding to take it till your last I...
Date: 7 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir/ I aQuaint you that I recd by John Wright 50 Ells Tarr Very Small and About Two thirds full, forty Bundles of Iron Hoops 17 Coils of Small Tarred Riging 11 D[o] White Rope 357 Codlines 20 Coils of Deap Sea Lines 35 Bundles of haulters [with] Wormline Marline and houseline, Since the above I have by Mr Wm Bull one Shrou[d] With Spunyarn and Sundrys Stores a Quantity, with a Suite of Collours...
Date: 15 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I Received yrs of the 28th June and a Greeable to yr Desire have Sent the Boat To Hartford after the Spans they will Take in what you have to Send down. I would have you Send Me Down 20 or thirty wt of Tallow for the Ri[gging] and Some White Lead if you have any the Oacam I willSee about and if I Can Gett 4 of 5 hhds Wt I have Nothing perticular Only the Ship Goes on Briskly ー Desire the...
Date: 1 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir, The Marine Committee at Philadelphia wrote of the 22d Ulto that the Secrett Committee had given you orders to deliver me what Articles you had imported on Continent Accot Should be glad you would forward them to me soon as you can, as I want to make use of them, and any matters you want for the Ship, if wanted before She comes Round you can keep, and any other articles you want let me know...
Date: 5 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I Recd yours 23d Inst. this moment & observe what you say about Iron, am sorry I cannot have it as my Vessell will be delay'd unless I can procure it. Note your wanting many articles for the Ship as stores of every kind are Scar[c]e I think you had better git as many of the articles you shall want in the River before the Ship comes round, and we will then endeavour to make up the Remainder...
Date: 26 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Your Favour of the 6th Instt I recd Yesterday by the returng Post who was flying and I cou'd not acknowledge it by him Is it Possible that Capt Mortimer has forgot his engagements. You remember how often I urged [John] Cotton to clinch that Rigging. However I am surprised at Nothing the daily disappointments I meet with, prepare me to believe any thing. The Rigers I believe will do as they please...
Date: 9 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I Recd, yours by Capn [Dudley] Saltonstall this Morning and a Greeable have waited on Capn Mortimer, his Ansr to Me is You Shall have the Riging att the Last price which is 1/6 p lb Capn Saltonstall has been with Capn Willis for the flour which I will Take to the Beaker and there have it Made into Bread Giving You the Invoice of What I Deliver him I am Sorrey the Ship is Detained by the Black...
Date: 14 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Your Favour requesting us to procure You an Iron Hearth or Cabose for the Ship of War under Your Care2 also requesting us to inform You whether You could be supplied with.12 lb Shot and what Price we gave the Riggers for Rigging the Warren & Providence we received and it has not been in our Power to reply thereto until now by Reason of Mr Mumford (who is the only Person who...
Date: 17 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Inclos'd you have the Commiss[ion]s for the Officers of the Frigate in the State of Connecticutt call'd the Trumbull you will perceive the Lieutens Commissions are not fill'd. I did not know but some Alteration might have taken place, tho' we have only the Names of the first & second Lieuts Vizt Jonathan Maltbay 1st Lieut & David Phipps 2d Lieut if they agree to go, you will then please...
Date: 2 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
We are now to acknowledge the Rect of Your Favours under the 28th Ulto & 6th Inst which came to our Hands but a few Days since, otherwise should have been replied to before We embraced the first Opportunity & Wrote Mr Mumford sending him an Extract of Your Letter desiring the Iron Caboose might be omitted & wishing that it might not do any Damage to him as we had no other Viewjn the...
Date: 15 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
When Capn. [Dudley] Saltonstall went away to Wethersfield I had forgott that you had pork Stored with Tewels Butt Desired him to a Quaint you that that pork left with Cooper was taken away, I Shall take outt of Tewels Store two Barrels and putt On Board the Ship —2
I would be Glad if you Could hire and Send Down a Vessell to Take Our Matters from the Ship yd Before we Go a way with the...
Date: 18 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I Wrote to Aquaint you that I have Taken two blls of Your Pork for the Ship 2 Which was in Tewels Store Capn [Dudley] Saltonstall Desires that I would have You Send Down Some Coffee and Sugar and Chocolate if yoµ have Any for the Ships Stores Round to New london What Other he wants I shall Endeavor to Gett here, and the above if they are to be Gott here if they Are they [are]...
Date: 19 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I have been with the Governor of this State this Week, and as he has Derictions from the Congress To Build Two frigats One of Twenty Eight and the Other of thirty two Guns in this State and has been pleased to appoint Me as Superintendant for this Ship 2 as the Other is in Norwich, I there£ [oreJ Begg You as A freind is [sic if] You have any Iron that is Nott Wanted for the Use of the...
Date: 20 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
I Recd Yours with the Money and Agreeable to your Desire I waited on Capn Bush and Dlivered him 100 Dollars things Seem to Goe on well as Both Bushes Seem to be Much Engaged I under Stand they have found this Side a Noble Lott of Timber, the Other Money I intend for Southmayd and Joe Willis ー Mr George Lewis the Bearer is Recomended by Mr Bush as A Good hand to Send to Infeild after pine Timber...
Date: 30 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3