Displaying 1 - 15 of 15
Gentlemen Immediately after the Reception of your Letters & Pamphlets, I went to Albany to find the State of the Lakes . . . I found the Lakes impassable at that time ー About a Fortnight after I set out for Canada and arrived at St Johns in 14 Days having undergone most inconceivable hardships the Lake Champlain being very high, the Small Streams Rivers, and a great Part of the Country for...
Date: 29 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
. . . The People at Machias, an obscure small Town in the Eastermost parts of this Colony, you may remember some time ago took two Sloops from one [Ichabod] Jones (a dog) and a Tender. they have now taken another Tender without the loss of a man, and among other things with ten bbls. powder and £50 sterling in Cash.2 in this way they will be a Maritime Power. they Bid as fair for it as...
Date: 4 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Spirit of Privateering prevails here greatly. the Success of those that have before Engaged in that Business has been sufficient to make a whole Country privateering mad. many kinds of West india Goods that we used to be told we should suffer for want of, are now plentier and cheaper than I have known them for many Years.
Date: 15 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
...a few prizes are daily dropping in. it is reported that a ship with forty light Horse on Board has been taken in the Channel of England by a Salem Privateer after an Obstinate Engagement, in which the privateer lost seventeen men. we are about moveing to Boston haveing taken the Room belonging to the County....
Our Naval Operations are Counteracted and discouraged by many sagacious devises of...
Date: 24 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
... I wish I .could Entertain you with any News of Importance but I can only tell you of prizes taken. but this is .become so common that we hardly hear of them ourselves, unless they are from Europe with such Articles as we want much, and very rich besides. we have had divers such lately. A report prevails this day that Howe is Embarking his Troops, which occasions.many Conjectures about the...
Date: 18 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Wallace at Newport makes great Havock among the Trade and sends whole Fleets to Boston. our Machias Admiral has been and Burnt the Fort on St. John's River, took away all the Cannon, six or seven, and has taken a Vessel Bound to Boston with thirty head Cattle, seventy Sheep, some Swine, 2000 lbs. Butter and Cheese, seventy Dollars, six watches, some English Goods.
Date: 28 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
My attention is directed to the fitting out of privateers, which I hope will make them swarm here. Is it not time to encourage individuals to exert themselves this way? General [Thomas] Gage before the commencement of hostilities destroyed or confiscated the provisions then collecting for the army, and can we hesitate at this time about the propriety of confiscating vessels employed by him to...
Date: 9 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
There is a Report, by a Sloop from Connecticut River this Morning, that St. John's is taken, but whether true or not, is yet doubtful.2
The Viper sloop is daily stopping the Vessels and Boats from Sea & New Jersey. ー
Date: 18 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Dear Sir,ー The Bearer of this I suppose will be Mr. [Paul] Revere, who Carries you from the Council some very Important dispatches, taken by a Fish Boat in a Schooner made Prize off and Carried into Beverly.2 Among other things there is to be found in one Letter the Success and Effects of your Loyal and Dutiful Petition. Administration from it presumed there must be a...
Date: 12 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Our Privateers more than answer our Expectations. since the Grand Prize I wrote Mr. [John] Adams of several other vessels have been taken, perticularly one from Scotland dunnaged with Coal and filled up with Bail Goods to a very Considerable Amount and Consigned to James Anderson, who by the way is become a Captain in Gorham's Regiment of Fensible Americans. it is said another Vessel with dry...
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
... you will doubtless be Informed by the General of the Military Operations, in what manner and when the Army began and advanced their works on Lechmore's Point, and of the Cannonading and Bombardment that has Ensued, and of the Success of it, of the several Prizes our Privateers have taken, and of the Loss of one of the Continental Privateers taken and carried into Boston. 2 it is...
Date: 19 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
... our Naval Operations have been for a while suspended, the Privateers mostly hauled up. I can therefore give you no Account of any late Captures. I hear they are again fixing and hope they will soon have their usual Success.... A ship is arrived at Falmouth which left England the beginning of November. by her we have the Addresses of both Houses in the usual state, some Additions to the...
Date: 14 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
we are now called on for more men to come in till the 1st of April, seven Regiments to consist of 728 each, Connecticut for four, N. Hampshire for two, in all thirteen, all which will but Compleat the Army to your Establishment. from which you may Judge of the present Situation of it. Two Prizes Carried in Yesterday to Newberry Port by a small Privateer, one a Ship from London with Coal and...
Date: 17 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Manly last week took two Ships from Whitehaven with Coal, Beer, Potatoes, and some other small Articles. 2 a Tender came to their relief with a Force superiour to Manley's, but he Bravely Beat Him off and Triumphantly Carried them into Plymouth.
Date: 31 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
The Subject of Ship building having very early engaged my mind, I at length adopted a plan which appear'd an improvement in the art & much wanted, and by a long Course of experiments (in small) attended into considerable expence I was confirm'd of the truth of it
Thus encouraged I offer'd my services to the Gentn. of the Committee of Donation here for building one of the Vessells...
Date: 20 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11