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I receivd yours thanking me for my endeavours for the Release of your Brother from on board the Man of Warr, When I heard of his Detention tho' I had no very great intimacy with Capt [James] Wallace The thoughts of his Family & their Distressd Situation cou'd not but move every Person of the least Humanity & on seeing him the Sympathising Tear trickled on my Cheek. I was from four oClock...
Date: 27 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I have the Sattisfaction to Inform Our friends that Brother John is releas'd, after much Intercession of Many very ー kind friends and much Sollisitation to the General and Admiral with Whom my personal Access was Made (I may Say 'thro, Divine as well as human favour) almost familliar a Circumstance very unexpected from the Charectors of Both when I came from home, I have Seldom Seen a patient...
Date: 3 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Your favo'r of the 15th Instant is now before me to which I answer, that I've receiv'd a Letter from Capt [Jeremiah] Stamford informing me the Duck has come safe to hand & that he had paid the Waggon, as pr our Agreement. I am much Obliged by your kindness, in forwarding the Canvas with such dispatch, am sensible of the difficulty at this time of procuring teams as I've been Oblig'd lately to...
Date: 27 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
On my arrival Mr Tallman the person who I was to have the Rice, was gone to Boston so that I was obligd to wait his coming home being no more in the place. he is Since got home, & tells me he has dispos'd of the whole he had, & cannot at present buy you any of that Article ー
a Man you desir'd me to get you for your Brig is not to be had, a continental Brig fixing here picks them all up ー...
Date: 12 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Inclosd is dementions of Tops, for our Ship of 32 Guns, which I promis'd to send to Colo Russell you'll please deliver it [to] him, you'll please to inform me if any light Canvas, [is] to be had with you ー
My kind Respects to Colo Bowen and all Friends, and accept the same from Your most [&c.]
Date: 16 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Your favo'r of the 19th ulto is now before me, by which I see you'll have done casting of Cannon; for the use of your Ships in about 4 or 5 Weeks, I've wrote to Philadelphia for Orders, to contract with you, for Guns, as I am convinced you can give them to me, as soon as they can to the Southward, I shall depend on having the next Cannon to your's. I amamazed at the [Marine] Committee, that they...
Date: 1 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I have bought the Brigg of Mr Corey and am to pay Eighteen hundred Dollars in Contenentle or Rhode island money and I tarrey hear to git the Brigg Redey to Bring to Providance and Shall be glad you will Send the money by Capt Northam, as they dont Cear to go after It for It is a Matterof indifferanc with them weather thay Sell or not Shee is a fine Vessel fit for the Perpos and as well Bult as...
Date: 25 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir ー I wrote you 1st of this month, that I should depend on my Guns, next to your's as my Ship has been intirely waiting ever since that day. Ishall be very glad you'll inform me, by return of Captain [Supply] Clap, when you can furnish me, it would be very happy for us, if we could get our Guns, as we have got part of our Men, and might soon compleat the rest, had we the Guns? Twenty Six double...
Date: 28 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Your favour P Captain Hawkins I've recd am sorry for the Misfortune of the Masts; on receiving your Letter, immediately orderd our Mast makers to examine the Docks for Masts they have got some of them, and are at work, shall soon have them ready. Capt Hawkins is at Newbury will soon be here with his Sloop to take them round, have order'd some to be hawled for Top Masts &c shall take every...
Date: 12 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
We have Recd the honor of your first letter of the 23d April By Capt [Gideon] Crawford, who arrived at Nantes In the Ship happy Return,2 we have made the Best Returns we Could of his Cargo. However we have not Sold to such advantage as we could have wish'd, but we hope nevertheless you will find your account in it, & that you will be Entirely Satisfied with Merchadize we Send you...
Date: 3 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The Above is Copy of our last,2 since which have not had the Pleasure of hearing from you, this now Serves to Inform you that we this day dispatched your Schooner Sally Capt [Samuel] Avery, and by whom You will receive the Invoice & Sales of her Cargo, we are extreemly mortified that the duty on Oils are So grait, and which we where Oblig'd to pay on those recd by your two Vessels...
Date: 28 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I am in want of Two Cables for the Continental Ships & hear there are some to be sold at Providence should be glad you would Inform me whether You Can obtain same 2 of abt 15½ Inches. pray let me know by the first opportunity ー be pleased also to Inform me whether either of your Cables for either of the Continental Ships at Providence are a Double Shot or abt 20 [illegible] fathom long ー Yr...
Date: 15 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I am very sorry to be under the disagreable necessity of making a second complaint to you of the unjust conduct of one of your Privateers, but as this comes nearer to your door than my former information (if I am rightly inform'd of you being one of the owners) I shall do it with more freedom, & with greater expectations from necessity of your exerting every faculty, that may conduce to the...
Date: 26 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Since writing the above 2 have heard the disagreeable news of an American Vessell being taken a going out of Bordeaux River, by an English frigate, who was laying in wait for her, One reports she is worth about Twenty thousand pounds Sterling, being loaded with Dry Goods, It is thought by most people here that information was given of her by some of our ennemies who knew the particular...
Date: 3 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Docr Binney handed me this Day your favour of the 17 ulto that part Respecting Shipping your Goods is answered in mine of the 29 by this Conveyance, but mr Howell & Greene not Seting out So Soon as Expected give me an Oppertunity of this ー I have been Chief of this day Imployd in Serch of persons to Give me Information of the Sloop you Mention. their was a Sloop taken up at Sea by the wasp...
Date: 1 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I Wrote you a few lines by Mr Angel at present nothing is done in this Truely Distressd Town but removing the unhappy Women & Children to the Internal part of the Island, together with all th[e] Effects Which the Hurry & Confusion will admit, the Brentons & Rome were yesterday recd on board the Man of Warr ー the former being sent for by Wallace, from which & other Circumstances,...
Date: 6 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I recd your Letter Date 3d & 5th Inst shall Endeavour to do the best I Can respectg the Business &c Tho nothing is now Done but hurrying from this Distressd Town, have Inclosd this Days paper to which refer ー am surprizd that Chaloner shoud say he had paid Cole the remaindr of Thurstons Debt, which he assur'd me he had Done ー he has been missing since the Late Commotion & tis supposd...
Date: 9 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
They are now fitting out four Vessels here viz 3 Ships & one 16 Gun Schooner; they will soon be ready, 'tis whispered that they go to France &c but I believe a mere surmise.2
Date: 28 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I expected to have had the Honour of seeing you again soon as I promised you but the affairs of Government do not permit me to absent myself at present.
Mr Pennet [Pierre Penet] & myself shall dine to morrow with Mr [Samuel] Ward to whom we have the Letter which a Merchant of your place gave us on your account.
We were dissapointed at not finding your Brother at Phila he went from hence the...
Date: 3 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
We have proposed that the small sloop Fly belonging to Clarke and Nightingale is now going immediately to Providence shall return hither again directly and bring as many able seamen as she can carry ー If her owners shall agree to this plan to Whom we have wrote for this purpose we shall be greatly obliged to you to use your utmost influence for the procuring of such seamen, it being slowly that...
Date: 9 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3