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The delay of an answer to yours of the 18th Ulto to has been occasioned by our waiting for a plan & Estimate of the repairs necessary for your Fort Lyttleton which we requested Capt. [John] Joiner to procure, but we have not yet received it, when we receive them we shall give that subject the consideration which is due to it. ー
The present circumstances of this Colony renders it absolutely...
Date: 23 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The following letter was written to Capt. Thornborough, of the Tamar sloop of war.
In the Council of Safety,
Dec. 18th, 1775.
Sir ー We would have wished, if it had been possible, to have continued the permission which lately subsisted for supplying his majesty's ships with provision for a longer term, even until a happy reconciliation with our parent country had taken place; but the measures...
Date: 18 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3