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Cap. Dill in a Vessel belonging to Messrs. Richd. & Jno. Jennings now goes to Virginia with intentions to get a load of corn and have desired me to write to you requesting your Assistance in Case there should be any Stop put to the Exportation of provisions . . . I shall add that Our Legislature have passed a Law prohibiting the Exportation of all Provisions from hence so that there is no...
Date: 29 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Dr Sir I recivd your favors of the 11th & 25th ulto the Accounts of your Safe Arrivall afforded us great pleasure I intended writting you by Capt Hudson, but he Slipt of[f] too Soon for me ー . . . I propose, to pay you a visite, this Winter from the present Prospects I am affraid we shall have a very disagreeable time of it here, we expect that this Town will soon be garison'd either with...
Date: 11 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Dear Sir I wrote you about fourteen days ago. . . . Our Convention are still sitting and we are told very unfix'd in their determinations . . . We have Acctts from the Nonverd of the Arrivall of Six more regiments at Boston and its said Lord Dunmore expects a regiment here, which will only serve to keep us in hot water. the whole Country are much incensd against him and I think not without some...
Date: 26 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
...I wish you would seriously consider the Scheme of Trade, Vessels loaded with Salt & Fruit, consigned to you in Virginia, to be loaded with Flour &c for Bermuda, or with Flour & Tobo for Martinique, the Mole &c &c &c to return to Carolina, Virginia, or Maryland as may best suit with Rum Sugar &c Arms, Powder 8. Medicines, would put you into a way of making a very...
Date: 28 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I reced Your Letter from Turks Islands & was glad to hear you was well & had got so far on your Voyage, it wou'd afford us inexpressible pleasure to be inform'd of your safe Arrival in Virginia, which I hope wont be long before we have that agreeable News. If you meet with no interuption in your Voyage we have reason to expect you will have a considerable Surplus besides loading the Sloop...
Date: 5 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
. . . The Nautilus & Galatea are here, & the Repulse expected they are to Cruize off this Isld it is said for 2 Months & then to go to the West Inds — they have taken 8 prizes since they left N York, 7 of which are sent in here besides one that they Suppose is lost in a Gale of Wind & a Provincial Privateer of 10 or 12 Guns which the Galatea Sunk 2 amongst their prizes...
Date: 13 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
I am sorry to Inform you that we were on Tuesday Night last under the disagreeable necessity of removing from Jamestown to Westover by an alarm given by a Gally and one of the Privateer's that the Men of War were within a few Miles of us, we Immediately Weigh'd Anchor and proceeded as fast as Possible to this place; where we are now lying in Idleness untill we can hear from you, the Captain is...
Date: 29 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
. . . This is intended to give you an Account of the Situation of our distress'd Island. ー The Galatea & Nautilus are both here, they have fitted out a Schooner Tender which is Station'd in Elly's harbour, besides this they have impress'd Capt Thomas Tucker's Boat which they keep out continually cruizing and by that means decoying the Vessels that are bound here, in this Manner they have...
Date: 2 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I snatch a Moment at the Council Board to scribble you a few Lines by an Express who carries a Letter from G. Washington to the Govr of S. Carolina ー We have just been informed by the General that 3000 Men had embarked at Amboy & New-York & were ready [to] sail on the 29th Ultimo, their Destination unknown ー but supposed to be to our Bay, Delaware, or up Hudson's River ー the 2d appears to...
Date: 11 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Dear Sir I Recd yours Sometime Last Month & was Extreemly glad to hear that you had so fine a Passage & safe home among your Friends I Could Wish myself along with you, if Coul'd get their Easy. Every thing is in Grate Confusion & a Much Heavyer Cloud seemes to hang over us then when you was here, the Man of Wars Tender got Burnt the other Day at Hampton, & they seem to Threaten...
Date: 10 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I find Bermuda and the Bahama's are look'd upon by the Congress as W. Indies Islands, and no Supplys to be allowed them ー Our Custom House now admitts vessels from these Islands with regular Clearances with Salt &c to entry, which they once refused . . . our Ports are now Shutt up and no vessels to Sail, but a few that were indulged on Acott of the gale we had; among these is a Brigt of...
Date: 13 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Your Soul would go nigh to melt with pity were you Now to look over this Harbour, not a Merchant Vessell to be seen hut the unhappy Sufferers in the late violent Gale of wind ー Blue Ensigns in plenty stream all over the River from Gosport to Town Point ー The Mercury of 24 guns the Otter & King-Fisher of 18 Guns each, the Govemour present Palace mounting 10 Guns, a large Ship of Selbecks to...
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Dear S. George The Scorpion Sloop of War, commanded by The Honble Capt [John] Tollemache & a Transport arriv'd here yesterday from Boston ー they have discretional Orders to stay here, if they think proper, or to proceed to Carolina ー I have not yet seen the Captain, who is sick, but din'd Yesterday at the Governor's3 with one of the Lieutenants ー he says there has been no Action...
Date: 18 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Ld Dunmore, this mad Montague & Squire2 every now & then send an old Woman or two out of Town, that are afraid of having their Brains addled with the Noise of the Cannon ー We shall have less 'tis to be hoped. Squire will let no Boats pass from Hampton to this Place, ever since the Hamptonians routed him, & set his Vessel on Fire.
I fear that every Person, that can afford it...
Date: 19 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I write you last, by Capt Williams who Saild, about three weeks, as there has been no Arrivalls from your Island, I am Still without any Acctts from my famely, of whose wellfare I am very Solicitous to hear; ー
I can not give you any more news from this than Mrs Campbell & Fanny will Communicate to you ー The Situation of this Town is really precarious, Nothing less is talkd of by the Warm...
Date: 10 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
These will Meet you & all our friends I hope in a Much Better Situation then we are in at Present, this Morning we have had About 200 More Soulders from St Augusteen the Remaining part of the Regiment, I have but Little news to Write you & that Not Verry Agreeable to you I Suppose, Every thing here in the Gratest Confusion Imaginable, all our Fighting Men is all Gone off. Pore Thos...
Date: 20 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Dear Sr. One Letter more before all Comunication is cut off ー
I wrote you sometime ago, tho upon my Soul I have forgot by whom. But thats no Matter provided you have got it Times grow worse & worse here ー & happy are they who are at the time out of the Vortex of these disturbances ー I wish from my Soul I was with you ー
Troops are collecting very fast at Williamsburg, where...
Date: 26 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
. . . It is said the King has order'd the Cruizing Vessels2 that were fitted out in the West Indies to be recall'd by Proclamation 8c the Men of War orders to take them as Pyrates. the prizes they have taken the report is, is taken from them by his Majesty and given to the Widows & Children of those Seamen & Soldiers that have lost their lives in the American War. . . .
Date: 21 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9