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Worthy Sir: After my due respects to you and all friends, I think it a pointof duty to acquaint you that I sailed from this the next day after the date of my last to you. I stood to the southward a whole day, with little wind, and about four in the afternoon, it blowing very hard to the south-southwest, making a heavy sea, I was obliged to bear away for this inlet, where I have remained, on...
Date: 5 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
After my due respects to yourself and honourable House, I am to inform you that on my passage here from Barnegat, I saw three sail of vessels plying to the northeast ー they appeared to be three ships. I immediately hauled my wind to speak to them, the wind about north by west. Afterstanding for them some time, I found one of them to be a very large ship, and was soon convinced she was a ship of...
Date: 20 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
After my due respects to you and your Honourable House, I am to inform you what has brought me to this place. You must in the first place know, my business here is to draw on you for some cash, which Mr. John of Murr[a]y has supplied me with, sixteen pounds sixteen shillings, on account your schooner General Putnam, for which I have given a bill payable at three days' sight, which I hope will...
Date: 9 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I received your favour about four weeks since by the hand of Doctor Boyd, wherein I found you advised me to join Capt. [William] Rogers, but understanding Rogers was gone to the Sound in order to refit, and what more induced me to keep to the southward, was my having expectation of meeting with some of the fleets, who I much expected this way, but have been deprived of that satisfaction. There...
Date: 23 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I have done myself the honour of waiting upon your Honourable House, in order to lay before you the state and condition of the schooner General Putnam, under my command, and finding there can be no Convention by reason that some of the members are absent, and it being uncertain when those gentlemen will return, I, to avoid the expenses which myself and horse are at, think it prudent to return to...
Date: 26 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6