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On Tuesday last the schooner Little Hope, with part of her cargo consisting of rum, sugar, coffee, tea, and a number of blankets, drifted from Philadelphia with the ice above Point no Point. The day following Major Edwards,1 with eight more, boarded her, after having with much difficulty worked their way through the ice. Previous to their boarding her the Captain of the schooner, with...
Date: 7 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
"Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in Martinico to his Friend in this Town, dated Jan. 19, 1778."
"By sundry advices, already in your hand, you are informed of the protection and encouragement we Americans meet with in the French islands; indeed much more than we could expect from any neutral power. I send you a list of privateers fitted out and owned in this island, and cruizing under Congress colours, viz ship St. Peter, of 18 six pounders;1 brig Gen. Washington, 16 four pounders...
Date: 19 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
By a gentleman just arrived from Bedford,1 we learn that a sloop of 14 guns2 has been sent from Newport to Martha's vineyard, to demand pilots for the fleet destined for Boston, to take in Burgoyne7s troops; they refused to comply with the demand, and the sloop (after taking a coasting vessel3 out of Holmes's Hole4) sailed for Newport, it is said, to...
Date: 23 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the Commissioners of the Navy for the Middle District, are now sitting at Baltimore, for the Despatch of Public Business. It is expected that all Officers belonging to the Navy of the UNITED STATES, who have not taken the Oaths of Allegiance and Office, as prescribed by the Resolve of Congress of the 3d of February last,1 will attend at this Board as soon...
Date: 25 May 1778
Volume: Volume 12