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I was desired by the Council to intimate to you in a private manner that if it should fall in your way, it would be of publick Utility,were you to scrutinize into the Conduct of Mr [Moses] Kirkland, which according to the Accounts transmitted (I believe before you set out)2 bears a very dark and suspicious aspect; an Enquiry may be made in such manner as to give no alarm, & if...
Date: 4 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Dear Sir: [Bryan] Foskey returned from Philadelphia late last night ー there is nothing new from the Army . . .
All Vessels bringing Gun Powder, Arms, Salt Petre, Sulphur, to be permitted to load & export provisions to the value of such military Stores, the non-exportation notwithstanding. This clause to be sent to all the Islands in the West Indieslbut not to be published in the Newspapers...
Date: 5 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I cannot let this opportunity slip without giving you a piece of intelligence, which I am sure will please you. Our Admiral2 and his crew have behaved like heroes; they have lightened Capt. Loftres of six tons of the needful; they surprised a superior crew, and took it out of the vessel lying at anchor within a mile of the castle of [St.] Augustine; ten soldiers were on *board, but...
Date: 11 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Dear Sir [Dr. George] Milligen has taken himself off; his flight was precipitate; he skulks between the Fort & the Tamar; I dont know that he had any pressing necessity for such a Manoeuvre, but undoubtedly he longs to be a great man, & by this Step has begun his Carrer of Glory; probably he had an unconquerable Dislike to the mode of Cloathing lately adopted in these scarce times &...
Date: 22 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Dear Sir Tho' jaded, sleepy, & stupified I cannot help acknowledging the receipt of your favour from head Quarters of the 11th inst. You put me in mind of Cicero Parthiens after the Surrender of Pindenissum, you may say with him "take it however as a Certainty, that no one could do more than I have done with such an Army." I hope you will do great matters with your great Guns, & I wish...
Date: 15 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2