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Mr. Ivers having declined doing any more for the ships,2 and your orders being to fit them for sea by spring, would inform you that after the rigging we have spared, shall fall considerably short to fit the ships out, we shall therefore be under the necessity to get some person to relay what rigging may be wanted out of the old rigging on board the brig Polly, Capt. Redfield, for which...
Date: 9 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Your resolve of 5th instant, also yours of yesterday by Mr. Degrushe, we have this moment received and note the contents. ,ve shall use our best endeavours to get the cannon and other necessary stores. As to the cables and anchors ordered to General [George] Clinton, we would acquaint you that in a few hours after we received your orders, we put on board a sloop four anchors and two cables, which...
Date: 12 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Agreeable to your directions we have kept the Most of our Carpenters employd on the Ships,2 but as there is not much carpenters work rtow to be done on board and we cannot employ them without great disadvantage to the Ships: would recomend to have them employed cuting Ship Timber to be rode down to some landing when the Slaying is good, which will be ready whenever wanted — Phillip...
Date: 14 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
It is with the greatest Reluctance Imaginable we your humble Petitioners are under the disagreeable Necessity of thus addressing you By this their Humble Petition Respecting our Wages nor should we att this time presume to Intrude on your Goodness did not Every Idea of want & Misery most lmpertinately stare us in the face, occasion'd By the Curtailing of our wages and the great Rise of every...
Date: 29 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
The memorial of William Malcolm on behalf of himself & the other owners of the Brigantine called the Janet, Humbly Sheweth,
That your memorialist and the other owners of the Brigantine sent her up the Hudson River to prevent her falling in to the hands of the Enemy. That by order of the Convention she together with her appurtenances was taken and sunk in the line of obstructions opposite Fort...
Date: 8 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
We the Subscribers for ourselves and in behalf of the other Ship wrights, Ship joyners and Others, lately employed on the Ship Congress, beg leave to represent that your Honorable House were Pleased to Resolve on the 20th Day of December last, that the Superintendant of said Ship, Capt. Augustine Lawrence, be Desired to Pay the People Belonging to said Ship for the Nights work in which they were...
Date: 15 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I have been desired by Zephaniah Platt, Esqr. to let the Convention know what I think of fitting out the sloop Montgomery on another cruise. I think that she is too small to cruise, as most of the enemy's ships of value will be of too much force for her to take; and as she is obliged to carry al most as many officers as a larger sized vessel would, it makes the pay come very high for so small a...
Date: 1 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9