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We had heard of the Lords2 flight before your letter came, and we apprehend it to be for fear of reprisal, as we suppose one part of the Ministerial plan has been already executed in Boston by seizing the Massachusetts proportion of the proscribed Americans, of which there are 32. Some Virginians are in the black list. Manuscript intelligence from London 10 Feby from our most vigilant...
Date: 24 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
As I have no business to write on to you, still I may give you a line to repose on in a hot afternoon in yr cool passage. The Magazine & Papers in closed will furnish some amusement & if you want any more of the Political kind my Br F. L. Lee will furnish you with as much as I know. Taking it for granted that you will send me at least 40 hhds of Tobo this year & besides by yr...
Date: 19 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
...Ld D[unmor]e has left Norfolk & burnt all his small Vessels & flung 45 thousand Bushels of Salt into the River. 55 Sale of his Fleet were in Hampton Road yesterday evening I refer you to Mr Page for News I am Sr [&c.]
Date: 24 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
...on the 29th & 31 of May Clinton & his Fleet &c left Cape Fear which Consisted of about 3000 Men, it is supposed Charles Town is the place of their destination...
Genl [Charles] Lee is gone [to] Charles Town...Callenders Cargo that went up yr River was 15000 lb of Powder 370 Stand of Arms 2000 lb of Musket Ball & 3000 lb of Sheet & Bar Lead a qty of Duck Oznabrigs Checks...
Date: 9 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Dr Cr I recd yrs by Mr Page I stand correctd for my inaccuracy. last Night 217 highland Soldiers bound to Ld D ー e were taken by Baron [James Barron] in Hampton road & brought up to James Town arrived at this place [Nicholas] Biddle off the banks of Newfound Land made prize of this Ship and another with these Men on board & put them all on board Barons prize & 8 Seamen, havg parted...
Date: 22 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Genl [Andrew] Lewis recd a Letr yesterday evening from Majr Price who commands at St Marys2 the Majr Says he has 400 Men & 4 peices of Cannon I of 9 lb 2 of 4 lb & 1 of 3 lb that at two Oclock thursday Morning he sent 100 Men over to the Island who he ordered to lay an ambush till Dunmores Men came on the Island to get Water which they did every day & go of[f] in the eveng...
Date: 27 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
my dear Col. I received your Letter with great pleasure, tho contrary to your expectation it paid postage to the hated Post office. as the constitutional post now goes regularly, we may with a safe conscience say how d'ye to each other. It gives me concern to hear that you are withdrawing from public business; upon my word, this is not a time for men of abilities with good intentions to be only...
Date: 21 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I wrote to Col. Tayloe two or three days agoe, from whome I suppose you have had the news, and intended by Mr Colston to answer your last letter; but an express from the Camp last night having bro't fresh intelligence I take the advantage of tomorrow's post to communicate it to you. The transports from Ireland with five Regiments compleat have arrived at Boston, a fishing boat, with 6 muskets...
Date: 20 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Before you receive this, Mr Colston will have given you all the news of this place when he left it. since which one of our little men of war, called the Lee, capt Manly, has taken a Store ship, loaded with 2000 stand of arms, a great deal of artillery, 30 tons of shot. a quantity of shells & shott for the bombs & Cannon; and a very great quantity of all kinds of Artillery stores; to the...
Date: 12 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
I intended to have devoted yesterday to answer your kind Letters by last monday's post; but unexpected business intervened, which prevented me and this day I find my obligation increased by the receipt of yours of the 1st Inst ー I must now content myself with assuring you that I am very sensible of your Friendship, and acquainting you with the occurrences in this part of the world; the only...
Date: 12 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
. . . We are kept in great anxiety by the extraordinary manoevre of Genl Howe, his going to sea with his Army; we can as yet only guess at his intentions. he was seen last fryday about 50 miles to the southward of these capes, & perhaps may be in chesapeak by the time you receive this; tho we think, if he has any wisdom left, he shoud go to the northward to cooperate with Burgoyne, whose...
Date: 13 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
. . . P. S. My Servant is returned from Leeds [town with letters]1 from Congress. Inspector General Loyeauté2 informs me that a Gentleman just from Charles Town tells him that a french man of war of 74 guns had engaged and beaten an English Frigate that had taken a French merchant man bound to Charles Town and that the M. of War afterwards convoyed the merchant Ship into...
Date: 6 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11