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Sir Captn [James] Campbell has applied to our Board to exchange two Pieces of Cannon, for two Pieces of Cannon belonging to the Province ー four Pounders. ー those he has are too long for the Service he is going on. ー2 If his Cannon are good of the Kind, and will answer the public Service, we are willing to make the Exchange and desire you would let captn Campbell have two of the four...
Date: 15 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Ordered, That Treasurer of Western Shore pay to Joseph Middleton ninety one Pounds five Shillings, it being the Balance of his Acct for furnishing a Pilot Boat to 3rd Day of Instt
Date: 18 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Ordered That Treasurer of Western Shore pay to Wm Lux Agent for Ship Defence two hundred Pounds.
Date: 20 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir We have received Information that there are no Vessels of War below, except the Otter and Eilbeck, and that most of the Tenders are gone to the Carolina Coast to protect the Transports on their Arrival there; in Consequence of which we have ordered down the Briggs Fortune and Rogers and the schooner Ninety Two with valuable Cargoes of Bread, Flour, &c and require you will give them what...
Date: 20 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Ordered That Captains of the Brigs Fortune and Rogers & Schooner 92 immediately order their Vessels down to the Port of Annapolis and wait upon the Council of Safety for Instructions and sailing Orders.
Ordered That Commissary of Stores at Balto Town deliver to Captn [James] Campbell (on Loan) 300 wt of sheet Lead. ー
Ordered That Treasurer of Western Shore pay to Hugh Young twelve hundred...
Date: 22 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
An Order having heretofore passed this Board for weighing the Vessels sunk in the Channel of the. River Potapsco near Whetstone Point and that Captn James Nicholson with the Ship Defence and her Tenders should assist in executing the same. ー which Order hath not hitherto, we are informed been complied with, by Reason of the necessary Absence of Captain Nicholson and one or both of his Tenders. ー...
Date: 24 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Gentn We are informed by Mr Hugh Young that 500 wt of Powder belonging to this Province ar[ri]ved at Newbern in No Carolina from St Eustatia shipp'd by Captn Abraham Van bebber on Board of Captn Luce ー you will probably want the Powder, ー therefore we have given him no Orders for it's Removal, but will exchange, if you think proper for the same Quantity to be delivered us by your Delegates at...
Date: 25 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Ordered That Western Shore Treasurer pay to Wm Neile of Baltimore Town fifteen hundred and forty five Pounds, ten Shillings and four Pence for the Schooner Nancy and the Amount of her Cargo, insured by this Province, and captured at St Eustatia. ー2
Date: 25 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir You will please to proceed to Baltimore and wait our further orders, ー we send this by Mr Middleton, whose boat you may keep with the ship 'till you come off Annapolis, presuming you will not want her further ー if however it should not be necessary for her to attend you, you will order down the bay, to gain what intelligence she can, of the ships you left below.
Date: 30 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir You are immediately to return to your Vessel and convey at the expence and risque of this Province, across the Country to the first Inlet to the Northward of Cape Charles such of your Cargo, as you may find necessary, and proceed round with the residue in yr said Vessel between Smith's Island and Cape Charles upon your arrival in that Inlet you [are] to take on board what you send across by...
Date: 31 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Gentn We send Mr [Stephen] Steward to Philadelphia to take a View of the Gondolas built at that city, we expect to contract with him for building most of those, that are ordered to be built for our province ー the difference of tide in our Bay from that in Delaware will, we apprehend, necessarily occasion some alteration in the manner of building and rigging our Gondolas from those of Pennsylvania...
Date: 1 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Gentn We are very much obliged to you for your favour of the 26th our boats for four days past have brought up information from Captn [James] Nicholson of the Defence on a cruize down the Bay, that several Men of War were at an anchor off Wind-Point [Windmill Point], above the mouth of Rhapahk, and we are glad that you have given us certain advice what vessels they are. ー
If Lord Dunmore expects...
Date: 2 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
sir we received yrs dated this morning off the harbour and are pleased to hear that you was gone past to Baltimore. ー we would have you make the best preparation you can to repel any attack, that may be made by our Enemies on either the fortifications or town of Baltimore. we received this morning an express from Virginia informing us that Lord Dunmore had sailed from Norfolk up the bay with his...
Date: 2 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
To Brigadiers [James Lloyd] Chamberlaine & [Henry] Hooper, Colas [Thomas] Wright, [John] Weems, [Benjamin] Mackall & [Richard] Barnes, & Captns [Rezin] Beall & [John Allen] Thomas [respectively] Sir [s]
The inclosed extract from a letter of Commodore Hamond to Governor Eden (in consequence of an intercouse between his Excellency and the Convention) will inform you, that a Man of...
Date: 3 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
The Council contract with Messrs Samuel Galloway and Stephen Steward for the Building of five Gondolas for the Defence of this Province, and agree to pay Mr Steward's Expences to philadelphia for the Purpose of viewing those constructed there: they also contract with Thomas Smyth Esquire for building two Gondolas upon Terns and Conditions hereafter to be agreed on.
Permit granted to Mr Hodges'...
Date: 4 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Ordered That the Treasurer of the Wes tern Shore pay to Cumberland Dugan of Baltimore Town One hundred and fifty Pounds common Money for Demurrage and Detention of Schooner 92.
Ordered That the Schooner 92 be unloaded as soon as can be done with Convenience under the Care and Direction of Mr Cumberland Dugan; and further ordered that the same be lodged in his Warehouse, and that he cause such of...
Date: 6 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Ordered That the Treasurer of the Western Shore pay to Capt James Nicholson of the Ship Defence seven hundred and fourteen Pounds common money on Account of the Forces under his Command.
Ordered That the said Treasurer pay to Mr Robert Purviance One thousand Pounds common Money on Account of the Schooner Resolution.
Ordered That the said Treasurer pay to Mr Robert Purviance (for the Use of Mr...
Date: 7 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
...the Governor is not yet gone; we expect he will leave the province in a few days, what Interruption the Virginians will or can give him in his passage down the Bay time will discover....
Should the Congress think proper to request us to March our Militia in the manner T.S. hath intimated, we must be under the disagreeable Necessity of calling the Convention, tis not with us to say they shall...
Date: 8 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir, We have received your letters with regard to the vessels sunk at Whetstone point, and altho' you declined acting in your first letter, we are pleased to find you have since accepted of the trust reposed in you by the Council of Safety, and we find by your last letter, that you have in part executed the same, by raising several of the vessels. ー you are des[i]rous of having some further...
Date: 14 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir, You will be pleased to deliver to George Handy, or his order, as many Barrels of Flour as may be necessary for loading the schooner Three Sisters, a vessel we have chartered to perform a voyage to the foreign West Indies ー should there not be enough in your hands, be pleased to apply to Messrs Lux and Bowley, who have 100 Bbls of Flour, of ours in their custody, we wish the vessell to be...
Date: 18 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5