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I have been obliged to take the Town's Stocks of powder and ball from Westerly, Charlestown and Hopkintown, to equip the troops for the Block Island expedition, and to press 50 fire-arms. Of consequence, we are left in a most defenceless and wretched situation. These are, therefore, to beg your Honor would immediately order that the above towns may be supplied, as numbers of the inhabitants are...
Date: 1 September 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I this moment with Certainty Discover Ten Sail of topsail Vessels Standing to the Northward and Eastward which I dout Not is the British fleet that General lees Adecamp Refers to in his Letter to your Excelency of the 21st of Last month, in all probability, if the wind Stands they Will Be in the Harbour of Newport before Sunset. I therefore think it my duty to Acquant your Excelency of it...
Date: 2 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7