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Your letter of the 17th was laid before our Committee yesterday; by their desire I am to inform you that the Certificates for the Goods Sent by Mr Johnson Gildart to Mr Winter are founded on Sufficient Assurances of their being legally imported. The Certificates granted for goods carried from this to other places, have been generally Signd by me as Chairman. Sometimes by the Clerk of the...
Date: 22 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Gentlemen. Captn John Sterrets Company of Militia being appointed an Independant Company, and Capt George Wells compy consisting chiefly of Ship carpenters employed in working on the continental frigate2 having petitioned to be formed into an artillery Compy which we presume will be granted....
Date: 27 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I advisd you in my last that Capt Nicholson was ordered with the Defence to Annaps where he intended to give up the Ship to the Council of Safety if they coud get a proper Comdr for her, after which he purposed to go up & wait on your Board; at which time my Brar or I woud accompany him, it being now high time that every particular Arangemt of the Frigates Outfit shoud be settled, and...
Date: 27 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
The intention of this is to introduce to you my very worthy freind Captn James Nicholson, who agreeable to what I lately wrote you goes up to wait on your Board2 receive their Instructions &c about the Outfit of the Frigate.3 Captn Nicholsons Merit both in private Life & as an Officer is very great, & Justly deserving the Esteem of all who know him. ー I hope a...
Date: 1 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I hope youle excuse the Liberty of this Adress from a Stanger, which I presume to take on the Strength of my Brothers acquaintance with you, And he at present is from home.ー
The Bearer John Sterrit Esqr my good Freind & Neighbr is Jointly with myself & some other Freinds Interested in the Privateer Enterprize of this Port, Capt [James] Campbel[l], who has sent in a Valuable Prize to...
Date: 18 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I have communicated to Capt [James] Nicholson what you mention in your Letter of the 24th, expressing the desire of Congress to have his Frigate
fitted for Sea as soon as possible; and have asked his own opinion how soon (from her present Circumstances) She can be ready. He says that if he is supplyd with One large Anchor & shoud not be disapointed in his expectations of getting part of the...
Date: 29 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
In consequence of Letters to our Committee & myself recd by thursd[ay']s Post, Captn [James] Nicholson went off yesterday evening with about 30 or 40 of his best Hands & Some of his Officers with near 20 Sail of Small Craft for the Head of Elk to assist in bringing down the Public Stores & Sick that might be moved from Philada. — About an Hour after his departure I received the in...
Date: 14 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Sir Your Favour of the 23d Decr P The Schooner Ellen Captn Morton, with Invoice & Bill of Lading for Six Hhds Sugar, & Four hhds Rum, was deliverd us this day. We beg leave to congratulate you on the safe arrival of this Vessel which narrowly escaped some Frigates of the Enemy at our Capes, who are since come into the Bay. — The Sugars & Rum will both sell at extravagant high Prices....
Date: 3 February 1776
Volume: Volume 7
We advisd you the 11th Instant of the Arrival of Capt [Elna than] Holmes & Captn [Ichabod] Morton, and of Captn Hammonds Vessel being put into Pungoteege on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. — We likewise wrote the 24th by Captn Samuel Arnold of the Schooner Edward who has on board Eight Tons of Pig Iron for your Board.2
We have now the Satisfaction of informing you that We have...
Date: 27 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Your Letter of the 18th Febry was deliverd us about 10 days since by Captn Coffin in the Sloop Diamond, of wh we advised Mr [William] Ellery at Philada desiring he woud inform you of the Vessels safe Arrival. ー Two days after Captain Coffin's Arrival, when he was preparing the Vessel to load & her Ballast out, She was unluckily overset by a violent Squal of Wind & the Tide not answering...
Date: 21 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Having none of your Favours of late unanswered, We take the liberty of informing you, that the State of our Navigation is at present too dangerous for any Vessels to attempt coming into this Bay; the Enemy having several Cruizers stationed at the Capes for some Weeks past. We Judgd it proper you should know, least The Board of War might be sending any more Vessels this Way. ー We are at present...
Date: 31 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Inclosed I send you the Deposition of a certain Capt John Horn of Providence in Rhode Island who arrived here this day. By said Deposition it appears, That there is the greatest Reason to believe the Ships of War have fired upon & destroyed the Town of Norfolk in Virginia. I thought it a matter of so much Importance that the Congress should have the earliest Advice of this important...
Date: 5 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Since writing the annex'd, I have Just now recd by Express from Annapolis a Line from Mr [William] Paca inclosing your Orders to Captn [William] Stone which I expect to deliver him in a few Minutes. ー My Bror is Just now returnd from the Harbour after geting the Sloop & Schooner 2 under Way, having ordd them to drop dow[n] 3 or 4 Miles this evening to be clear of Ice, & ready...
Date: 13 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
In pursuance of your Orders to mount the Cannon fit for Use at this Place, We have engaged a Number of Workmen in making Wheels & Carriages for the Purpose, it being the general Opinion of all who have a knowledge of such Matters that it is best to Mount them as Field Peices, which purpose the Guns now here will be very suitable for as they are all light, say 2, 3, & 4 Pounders, to the...
Date: 17 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
I lately wrote Coll Lee requesting him to procure from the Marine Board an Order for 10 or 12 Thousand Dollars for the Use of the Virginia Frigate, as Mr Stuart & myself were out of Cash on that Accot & had a good many Accots to pay off on the Sailing of the Vessel. Coll Lee left my Letter in the hands of Coll Whipple (when he left Philadelpha) to apply for an Order, which has been...
Date: 1 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
By the Bearer we received this evening a Letter from the President of Congress with Copy of the Resolve of Congs.1 which we presume is now sent to your Excellency. The purport of his Letter to us is to request our best Endeavours either to prevent the Sale or removal of the Cargo of Salt which is referred to by the Resolve, or otherwise to endeavr: to secure it for the...
Date: 14 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
On receiving your Letter of the 12th with Copy of the Resolve of Congress respecting the Cargo of Salt arrived here,1 We immediately wrote a Letter to our governor,2 (whereof you have copy inclosed) advising him the Situation of the matter, which was such, as renderd it unnecessary for us to take any Measures therein before the governor shoud deliberate thereon....
Date: 22 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
We the under written with many others being Concerned in Vessals arrived at the Different Inlets of the Eastern parts of Maryld. and Virginia Beg leave to Represent to your Excellency, that a large part of the Trade Carried on by this State is by way of those Inlets and from thence down the River Pokamoake and thro the Tangier Sound to the Differt. parts of this State, And...
Date: 17 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11