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Amount of the Cargo &c of the Severil Vessills Fitted out on Acct of the Contenent by Nichs & John Brown ー Viz
Sloop Polley Benja Cumstock
£
932.. 1.. ー
Schooner William Joshua Bunker
4536.. 8..3
Brigg Happy Return Gideon Crawford
3036.. 5..3½
Schooner Salley Saml Avery
4067.11..6
£
12572.. 6..0½
Commn 5 PCt
628.12..3½
£
13200.18..4
First...
Date: 23 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
As you are now bound on a Voyage to Europe2 with a veiw of procuring sundry articles that are wanted here, and have expectations that your friend Mr Jean Wanderwoordt will supply such as we may desire provided he is assured of being duly paid the Cost with Interest for the Time he remains in advance. We the Subscribers being a Quorum of the Secret Committee appointed by the Honble the...
Date: 30 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
We have already wrote you of this date by the Sloop Peggy Capt Patton and directed how you shou'd apply the Nt pceeds of that Cargo unless you received other Orders from us
And shou'd you receive this letter in time it will be delivered you by a Young Gentleman2 who will be Authorized by another Committee of Congress to receive & dispose of the Nt pceeds of said Cargo, Therefore we...
Date: 3 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir, We have been regularly informed by John Bradford Esq. of his purchasing, loading & fitting the Brigt Dispatch in consequence of our orders, and we approve of his having appointed you to the command of that Brigt in the Continental service, as he gives you an extreme good character, of which we hope & expect, to find you very deserving. ー The Honble Continental Congress of which we...
Date: 30 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Gentn We must frequently give you the trouble to receive & forward our dispatches to Silas Deane Esqr as you will be possessed of his address & from the Nature of his business which requires him to move from place to place we cannot, you will therefore hold us excusable and he will pay any charge that arises by postage or otherways. We Send this by Capt Stephen Cleveland of the Brigt...
Date: 30 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
The Committee considering the favorable opportunity that now presents for shipping off Produce from this Port and other places to the Southward, the Enemies .Men of War having gone.
Agreed That the sum of eighty thousand Dollars be advanced Mr [Robert] Morris to be by him laid out in produce and exported on the Continental Account. Accordingly an order was drawn on the Treasurer in his favor for...
Date: 15 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Sir, It is impossible that at this date you can be a stranger to the important contest subsisting Between Great Britain and her (late) colonies, Neither can it be necessary for us to enter into any detail of the Origin, or history of the progress of the dispute, sufficient it is for our present purpose to inform your Excellency, that the good people of America grown quite impatient under the yoke...
Date: 20 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Be pleased to deliver unto Colonel William Whipple Four Tons of Gun powder (Cannon powder if you have it) for the Use of the Continental Frigate Raleigh built in New Hampshire ー if he should apply for the same. By order of the Commee
We are sir [&c.]
Date: 20 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
We have been applyed to for a supply of powder for the Continental Frigate built at Baltimore2 which shou'd have been ordered down there, but as we understand you have a sufficient quantity at that place and as there is some powder due to the Continent from your State, we request the favr of you to supply Messrs Wm Lux, Saml Purviance and David S[t]ewart with four Tons and a half of...
Date: 13 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
You will find inclosed herein Invoice and bill of Loading for hhds of Tobacco and Tons barr Iron which we have Shipped on board the Sloop Independance John Young Master for Martinico Consigned to your order for Sale on accot of the United States of America, you will please to have this Cargo sold to the best advantage and Credit the Secret Committee for the Neat proceeds, We hope the Brigt...
Date: 20 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
We have shipped 1000 bbls flour onboard the Ship Betsey ー Capt Wm Stevens for your address on Account & Risque of the United States of America agreeable to the enclosed Invoice & bill of Loading The Captn has liberty either. to go into St Lucia or Martinico just as winds or other Circumstances may serve. You will therefore receive this flour at either place and cause it to be sold to the...
Date: 24 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Ordered, That Mr Morris employ a proper Person to go to New England to charter Vessels to proceed from thence to Chesapeak Bay, there to load with Tobacco, now purchasing for account of the Continent.
Date: 26 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
As Several of the Vessells by which we have heretofore ordered out blankets & cloathing for the use of the Publick, have unfortunately been taken We think it prudent to give fresh orders in hopes the.Goods may yet reach America in time to be Very Serviceable, We therefore request of you to purchase on the very best terms in your power immediately on the receipt of this letter
Ten Thousand...
Date: 27 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Sir We deliver you herewith Copies of the Letters & Credentials you had from us when you sailed on your late unfortunate voyage, the originals whereof we understand you destroyed on being taken by the Orpheus Man of War.We have since that time taken other measures for procuring Arms and Ammunition which probably may have succeeded, therefore we request you will lay those Copies and this...
Date: 3 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Sir We have the pleasure to inclose you herein an Invoice of Some Cloths and Blankets lately imported into Rhode Island on Continental account2 and the Congress have directed the whole to be applyed to the use of the Army, wherefore we also inclose herein an order to Messrs Nicholas & John Brown in whose care they are, to deliver them to your Orderー
It is recommended to you by...
Date: 13 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Sir You have herewith a Copy of a letter we wrote you the 20th Ulto by the Sloop Independance Capt [John] Young which we hope may arrive safe as well as the Ship Betsey Capt Stevens and they will furnish you with some Funds in addition to what you received by the Brigt Cornelia & Molly Capt Lockard which is safely returned & by her we received your favour of the 24th Ulto the Contents...
Date: 21 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
You will receive herewith a copy of our letter of the 16th instant, whereby you are appointed our agent to superintend all our business in Europe. This goes by the Continental ship-of-war called the Reprisal, Lambert Weeks [Wickes], commander.
The value of this indigo is particularly intended to be lodged with your banker in Paris, for the use and subject to the order of Dr. Franklin, Silas Deane...
Date: 25 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
As this Committee is charged with the management of the Commerce carried on for the Continental Service, We think it our duty to represent to your Board the Necessity there is for an Armed Vessell of some kind to be stationed at Cape May for the protection of the Trade to & from this Port, at present there is none of the Continental armed Vessells fit or ready for this Service, being all...
Date: 13 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
We received a letter last week from Capt Samuel Smith junr Commander of the Ship Hancock & Adams belonging to Mr Blair McClenachan of this City informing us of his arrival with that Ship and Cargo at the port of Bedford in Massachusets, His letter is dated the 1st instant and he Says that in Latitude 38 ..29 and Longitude 65 ..23 he fell in with the Game Cock Privateer of Rhode,Island...
Date: 15 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
In Secret Committee
Sir
Philada Novr 22d 1776
We hope you may in due time Receive this letter by Capt Stevens of the Continental Schooner Lewis — which goes from hence to Carolina where we have directed her to be loaden with Rice & Indico for Your address, We hope she may arrive safe & deliver You a Valuable Cargo, the Rice you will sell of course, but it is not likely the Indico will...
Date: 22 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7