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Bond being given by Saml Waters, Joseph Sprague & Samuel Ward a Comission was Issued Out to the said Samuel Waters as Comander of said Schooner Dolphin fitted Out by them for the purpose of Cruising on the Enemies of the United States, and Instructions were deliverd to him Accordingly ー2The Memorial of the Comittee of Correspondence &c of the Town of Salemー
Humbly Sheweth, That...
Date: 14 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The Committee of Correspondence, Inspection & Safety of the town of Salem, humbly shewー
That divers of the subjects of the king of Great Britain taken in vessels in his immediate service, & on board merchant vessels, are now resident in this town & in other maritime towns, that their numbers are daily increasing, as prizes are brought in, that the resolves of Congress respecting...
Date: 30 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The Committee would inform the Honorable Board that the foregoing List 2 was forwarded, immediately after it was taken; but the Committee having made enquiry last Evening, of the Honorable Mr [Daniel] Hopkins, what had been done upon the matter, he informed them that he had never heard any mention made of it at the Board, and therefore concluded that it must have been mislayd. The...
Date: 9 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
In complyance with an Order of Council of the 11th Instant, directed to this Committee, they have apprehended, and caused to be confined, all Masters Mariners and Seamen, taken on the High Seas, who have not entered into the Service of this or some of the united States and were Resident in this Town.
The Mariners and Seamen the Committee were under the disagreeable necessity of committing to the...
Date: 23 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
That Capt Richard Valpey, an Inhabitant of Yarmouth in the Province of Nova Scotia, but formerly of this Town; hath made application to this Committee, setting forth, that being at Halifax in said Province, in May last, he was applied to by the following Persons Vizt Capt Habakkuk Bowditch, Messrs Jonathen Payson, Charles Calahan and Andrew Millet, In habitants of this State, and who were then...
Date: 30 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9