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Ordered, that a rowingboat, cockswain and six men be forthwith procured for the service of the public.
Date: 15 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Capt. [Daniel] Roberts, Messrs. [John] Girardeau and [Samuel] Saltus being appointed a Committee to agree with some gentlemen about loading, etc., some vessels for the service of the public, reported that they had, agreeable to orders, met at. Mr. Lavien's; that they had agreed with Mr. Philip Moore on the following terms, viz.: That he should have one-half penny per pound freight on Indigo and...
Date: 9 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
At a meeting of the Council,
[Savannah] Oct. 7th, 1776.
The President2 laid the following before this Board, viz.: In Convention.
This house having received some information which gives them great reason to apprehend an attack is intended against this Province; and having also been informed of an armed boat being upon the coast, and having committed some acts of depredation upon the...
Date: 7 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
At a meeting of the Council,
[Savannah] 18th October, 1776.
Ordered, that Capt. Pray be directed to proceed on a voyage to the Island of Saint Thomas and to procure as many seamen, arms, ammunition and swivels as he possibly can, and that he be permitted to mount as many carriage guns, as the vessel can bear on his return hither.
Date: 18 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
At a meeting of Council,
[Savannah] Oct. 21st, 1776.
Capt. Pray recommended Mr. Nudigate as his First Lieutenant, which was agreed to.
Date: 21 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Gentlemen, ー We received your letter of the 14th instant, 2 respecting exportation, and as two of our Continental delegates had just arrived, we thought proper to defer giving you an answer until we had consulted them in Council. This we have done, and have deemed it expedient to send Stephen Drayton and William Ewen, Esqrs., two of this Board, to explain those things to you...
Date: 19 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
At a special meeting of the Council of Safety [at Savannah] on Sunday, Dec. 24th, 1775.
Present:
George Walton.
Francis Henry Harris.
Edwd. Telfair.
Oliver Bowen.
Saml. Elbert.
Basil Cowper.*
John Smith.
John Martin.
Wm. Gibbons.
The President laid before the Board a letter from John Wereat, Esq., informing that several vessels loading with lumber up Sapelo and other rivers at...
Date: 24 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Present
George Walton.
Basil Cowper.*
Edw. Telfair.
John Smith.
Francis Henry Harris.
William Gibbons.
Oliver Bowen.
Archibald Bullock.
Samuel Elbert.
Joseph Habersham, Esq., attended this Board and took his seat. A motion was made and seconded that a committee be appointed to propose some expedients for supplying the Province with arms and ammunition, and that they make their...
Date: 27 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
The Committee appointed to propose expedients for supplying the Province with arms and ammunition brought in their report, which the Board proceeded to consider and came to the following resolutions.
Whereas, It has been resolved by the Continental Congress, that for the better furnishing these Colonies with the necessary means of defending their rights, every vessel importing gunpowder,...
Date: 2 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
The President informed the Board, that in consequence of information received from the secret committee, informing that two ships of war and one transport had sailed from Rebellion Road, 2 which, there was good reason to believe, was destined to this Province in order perhaps to plunder it of life stock, &c., or to support the merchants in the exportation of produce contrary to the...
Date: 7 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Stephen Drayton and William Ewen, Esquires, deputies appointed by this Board to make a representation of the state of this Province to the Council of Safety in South Carolina, and. to confer with them on the subject of exportation, having returned, attended and made their report.
Resolved, that no rice shall be exported from this Province after this day, until the first day of March next, except...
Date: 8 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
The President having informed the Board that, from the accounts received, informing that ships of war were destined to this coast, he had issued orders to remove the cannon from the Island of Cockspur.
Resolved, That this Board do approve of the said orders, and that the President do issue further orders for collecting and cleaning the cannon in and about the Town of Savannah, and that the...
Date: 9 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
The President sent a letter to the Council of Safety for South Carolina, informing them of the arrival of the Tamar off Tybee Light house and that the other vessels were in the Offing, and had fired several guns, but whether from the haziness of the weather, or their being in distress, we could not be certain.
Date: 13 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Capt. Wells presented to the Board an account against the public for moving a quantity of ammunition from Savannah to Ebenezer, and for removing Capt. McKenzie's ship from the Road of Cockspur to Savannah, and the expence attending the same amounting in the whole to £ 16, 10s 9d, which passed and was ordered to be paid.
At a special meeting of the Council of Safety
Jan. 16th, 1776, p.m.
Resolved...
Date: 16 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Resolved, That the persons of his Excellency, Sir James Wright, Baronet, and of John Mulryne, Josiah Tattnall and Anthony Stokes, Esqrs., be forthwith arrested and secured and that all non-associates be forthwith disarmed, except those, who will give their parole, assuring that they will not aid, assist or comfort any of the persons on board his Majesty's ships of war, or take up arms against...
Date: 18 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Resolved, That his Excellency Sir James Wright, Baronet, his Majesty's Council, and the Crown Officers in general, be enjoined upon their parole of honor not to go out of the Town, or hold any correspondence with any of the officers or others on board the ships of war now at Tybee, without permission of this Board, and that should either or any of them refuse to give such parole, such person or...
Date: 19 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3