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I have your favors 3 Oct & 25 Novr since I had the pleasure of writing you the 28 Decr
Wheat is now fixed at 7/ pr Bushel & if any alteration it will be for the better. Flour 17/ d 19/ ー Indian Corn 3/9. Messrs Hewes & Co wrote me that they expected a Cargo very soon from you, & I gave them our prices. I suppose I shall have her here, as the best American wheat sells there from 50...
Date: 17 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Gentlemen This Vessel is in the Road waiting. I have therefore only time to say, that I have this moment reced a Letter from London, mentioning, that in a debate last friday [January 20] in the House of Lords on Lord Chatham's Motion to withdraw the Troops from Boston as a conciliatory Step ー The Ministry declared, through Lord Suffolk, that they are determined to embrace no conciliatory...
Date: 22 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I wrote you a few Lines to give you the melancholy News of the designs of Ministry to persist in their foolish and wicked Attempts against America the Wind having ever since detained this Vessel I am enabled to acknowledge the receipts of your favors of 10.21 & 21 Decr The Insurance was made agreable to your orders. The Friendship does not yet appear. I shall pay due Honour to your Bill to...
Date: 31 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Since I wrote you this morning I have an Account of the Ship Friendships arrival in our River; I have not yet seen Capn Young but expect him up every momentー
I am with great Esteem Gentlemen [&c.]
Date: 31 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My last was 31 Jany Since which I have your favor of 31 Decr The remittance to Messrs Wombwells shall be soon made agreable to your directions.
I am just return'd from London after having had the pleasure of seeing Mr [Edmund] Burke confirm'd in his Seat by the Committee of Elections. The most unwearied pains has been taken by that Gentleman in defence of America against the violent Measures now...
Date: 24 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Last was 24 Ulto Since I have none of your favours. The News from New York, since strengthend by the Testimony of the Quakers in your Province, leave no doubt with most people (of which I confess myself to be one of the number) of the Submission of all America to the present System of Government in this Kingdom. It is a pity, that these Circumstances had not been duly considered, before the...
Date: 6 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I have just now reced the enclosed Resolution from London, which Mr [Edmund] Burke made the 22d Instant in the House of Commons. He spoke for two hours & a half in the most masterly manner. A Speech which never was excelled within those Walls.2 I send this to the Road therefore cannot farther enlarge than that the resolution passed as usual in the negative by a very great majority...
Date: 24 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On the other side is Copy of my last. I sent you also a few Lines by Cn Clark via New York enclosing Copy of the Resolutions moved for by Mr [Edmund] Burke last Wensday but with the usual Success. The Ministry carrying it against him by a great Majority. How they could put a negative upon Resolutions which are in themselves incontestible, how they could say that the Colonies did not raise...
Date: 26 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Last was 26 Ultimo since I have your favour 22 feby Your Opinion about the Quantities of Wheat and Flour sent here is just, & the price has been supported tolerably, though it might have been kept up at 7/. however considering the variety of hands it was in, it was better than expected, especially as many were eager to sell, & some was actually sold at 6/7½; however the steadiness of...
Date: 15 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Last was 15 April Since I have your favors 30 March & 11 April. I was in hopes to have been able to have rendered your Sales & Acct Current of the Wheat, but the quantities on hand have prevented the people taking away, so that the Warehouses are not yet cleared, which is the occassion of my not being able to settle the Account ー They promise me it will be cleared away soon.
Wheat,...
Date: 7 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
. . . Yours of 7th Inst is come to hand this After noon, The Tobacco I expect will be safe in the Public Warehouses, Tokely has been here since my last to you, & he then had not a hand belonging to his Vessel but himself ー & he says they are not to be got, 2 I have advanced him forty One pounds 12/6 by the inclosd Rects, for which I was once going to make out an Acct against Mr. Hews [...
Date: 17 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Yesterday morning an Express arrived from the Council of Safety Virginia, to our Council in Annapolis, Adviseing, that Dunmore with his fleet had Abandoned Norfolk, and at first Appeared bound to Sea, however they Soon put About, and Stood up the Bay, Attended by the Roebuck and two or three other Vessels, with A Number of tenders, we have Since heard by a Vessell from Patowmack, that they had...
Date: 2 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
...[William] Tokely has been to hampton since my last to get hands but without success, tho' he has seen among the Soldiers there six of his Deserters, & the General has Promised me an Order tomorrow for his having them, I propose after Wards that he shall go to Suffolk to try what he can do there, he will have Time enough before his Convoy is ready, We have hopes of his Owner from Carolina...
Date: 7 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
...Yesterday, Mr Smith & my self made three unsuccesful Attempts to get the Fanny Maned out of the Colonial & Continental Services here, & to day he goes to try to get hands otherways, You will do well to procure an Order of Congress upon the Commanding officer here for me to be suffer'd to Man the Brigt out of the lines wherever I can find men in them that are fit & Willing to go...
Date: 15 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
...The Fannys fate is so discourging that I scarecly know how to be making proposals to you to order a further Purchase of Tobacco, but I am of opinion myself that small Vessels with it, may easily be got out of Hampton Port under the Direction of our famous Capts [James and Richard] Barrans I shall write them immediately to know their Sentiments on this Subject & inform you of their Answer,...
Date: 6 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I wrote you the 1st Inst Copy of which goes by this Opportunity.ー
Mr. [James] Le Maitre has at length arrived here, but as I apprehended, by way of Hallifax & without the Sloop. ー On the Night of the 5th of June near the Island of Bermuda, the Crew, instigated & headed by the Mate (who it seems was a Caledonian) fell upon Capt [William] Britton & him whilst in their Beds and...
Date: 22 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I confirm what I did myself the pleasure of writing you by Mr Van Horne, who I hope will long ere this, be arrived, & the Cargo under his direction safely Landed with you; he will him self have related to you the many obstacles we had to surmount in procuring it here, as such a Cargo had never before been shipped from any port of France; and the publick Orders relative to the Articles it was...
Date: 6 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I wrote Mr Morris few days Since, in which I mention'd that a q[uanti]t[y] of Sugar would be sold soon, they were at the time mentiond but at the sale the first day, they sold so high that I tho't it not worth while to Engage as they sold for upwards of 50/. the next day at the first of the sale I purchased abt Twenty five Hhds Sugar which lv'e Stored for your Acct this is some of the best of the...
Date: 19 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
The various Conveyances by which I wrote you with Accounts &c arrived, I hope safe, though I have not had the pleasure of hearing from you. I have the greatest hopes of it, because they were sent, before this unnatural War had arisen to the heighth which wholly has separated this Country from yours, and deprived us of an Empire, which was our Glory and our Boast. May God grant that the...
Date: 5 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I enclose you a Copy of the Bill which Mr [Edmund] Burke intended to have introduced into the House, as a ground of reconciliation. I also send you an imperfect abstract of what he said, and even not yet concluded, but you will see the ground which the Friends of American have taken by it. I wish it had been more perfect, but such is the dislike the present Ministry have to their Debates being...
Date: 17 November 1775
Volume: Volume 3