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I have yours of yesterday with a list of Vessels. There is many People that have Vessels would be glad to get your Money for them, wether they ware sutebel for your use or not. Will have as fine a Vessel of our own, as almost any in this Bay, and gos pretty fast. I want to sell her very much but am afraid she would not answer the end you want her for. Mr Spriggs now gos fast and will carklated to...
Date: 9 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
the Barrer Capt Ewing has a ship to Dispose of She is a Nue vesell and as well Built one as Ever I Se She is Raley a Complet Pice of Work, and Stout Enuf to Carey 8 or 10 Six Pounder With 50 Men She Draws Less Water then any vesell of hir Size ー She is Nue ankers Cabels and Rigen hir Main Sal[s] nue but not Large Enuf for the Provence Service I would agred With him for hir but am In Sum Doubts at...
Date: 17 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
In behalf of you I have agreed to give William Waters one hundred & seventy five pounds provincial money for his boat & materials as p Inventory, herein for the use of the Province, sent a hand up with W. Waters in order to towe the boat down, I have wrote to John Steel, please to send down by the boat the swivil guns, half a barrel of Cannon powder, & half a dozen pounds of musket...
Date: 12 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
this will be handed to you by Captain [William] Paterson he has ben with me to No If thare is any of the Provence Boats are Redey I have two Redey for Rigen The Rigen is at Baltimore Wha[re] Capt Paterson may go for amedatly If you think well of Employing him the boat he Chuses to go in is Redey for shipen I am [&c.]
Date: 7 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Mr Stephen Steward Recd of Roger Horace Pratt of the Schooner Resolution2-
12 Guns with Carraiges Britchens Tackel Compleate
1 Swivel & 350 Piggs of Iron Ballast 206 round Shott
90 Double Headed Shott. 106 Swivel Shott
6 Buckets of Landgradge, 9 Crow Barrs 11 Nets with Wads
8 Releiveing Tackels. 16 Gunner's Handspikes
18 Carraige Truck's 10 Rammers & Spunge Rope
10...
Date: 24 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Recd of Roger Horace Pratt of the Schooner Resolution the following Articlesー2
A Quantity of Sheet Copper & Funnel
A 2 Sheets of Lead the remains of the Iron ballast
the Cranes Stanchens ring Eye bolts belonging to the Vessel
30 Hammocks 1 Cot & bottom
35 lb Soape 1 Box Candles 2 Arm Chests
13 Cutlasses an English Jack & Ensign
A French Jack Ensign & Pendant
A...
Date: 12 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
as Captain Paterson [William Patterson] boat is So Near Redey to Sail I thought it Would be as Well for him to Com up In hir Redey to Receve your orders Which will be tomor[ro] w as the Larg Schooner Culd be got Redey In a fue Days With Six Careg guns If you Would Consent to swap two feild Pises Which you have In anaplois for two heve Pises that I tuck out of the Reselution the Large Schooner is...
Date: 16 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
This will be handed to you by Mr John David he I think is a verey fiting Man for first Leftenent of one of the galleys he is a brisk active Man he likewise Saild along time In one of the french galleys If you shuld think well of giving him a Comition he may be Recruting till the galley is Redey to shipp which will be In a few Days ー I am gentell men [&c.]
Date: 17 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
this will be handed to you by Mr Gideon Dair [Adair] he is averey sperited young fellow and has all Ways ben verey Desirous of geting Into the Cuntreys service he now is verey Desirous going out In your Largest Armd Schooner Captain of Moreins I think no one of My aQuantance More Deserving of a Cometion than Mr adair I Would awaited on you Myself Was not My Presence Much want'd In the yard but...
Date: 18 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Mr Gide[o]n odair [Adair] Waits on you for a Comition as Captain of Morreens onboard of the Largest Provence Schooner Which I hope to have Riged and fit for sea In 10 or 12 day as sailers are verey Hard to be got I Shuld think it Would be well for you to Put from 20 to 30 Lands Men on board after being aCruse thay will becom half Sailers Which will be of great use to this State Mr odaier as I...
Date: 29 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
In your Provence Stoare Ive sum Durance or Tamies that Would Do to Make Culers [colors] for the Provence vessels Plesto let Mr W asteneys My Clark have it he now Waits on you for it If you Can Spare it If you,,have no thin Canvi[s]s Plesto send Me two Boults of your thickest ozenbrigs I Shuld have Waited on you M ySelf but am oblige to Go to the lower Part of Prince Georges County Whare I hear...
Date: 11 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
agreabell to your order I have Sent an anker to Captain Martan [John Martin] of 517 lb I have no anker of 800 Wt Which Was the Sise he Sent for I have one of 1000 the anker I now Send him is full Large Enuf for the Brigg thare is but fue Captains that now gos to Sea that Nose What Wait anker Suts them With out Seing the anker. I Detaind the Boat till the anker Was Stockt as thare Might be Sum Def...
Date: 21 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I hear inclose you Lux and Bowley's letter, you will thare observe the Congress has taken the cable I had maid for the Galley. at this rate it is im possible for me to tell when I shall git the Galley to you. That Cable was a gratdle to large, for Capt Hamond [Larkin Hammond] jud[g]ed it must half fil'd the Schooner up.2 the Brigg Brothers Mr [Jesse] Hollingsworth bought for you I...
Date: 5 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Captain Mathews Com to Me from [y]ou for Cordigg and Canviss I have not So much of Eather as well Compleet the Galley thats fineshed I have firneshed this Galley With feeften or Sexteen Hundred Wait of My one Inglesh Cordig Such I am Shore I Cant git In this State to Replace I have taken Evrey Step to Git metearls for the Seven Galleys and the Nine armd vesells and have ben Continuley Disapointd...
Date: 27 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
I Send you two fine Boats to Carey the Soulgers over the Bay In order to Man them I am oblige to Put In two Sailer N egros If thare is the lest Danger of Losing them I Shall be oblige to you to Send them back again as I Would not take less then two Hundred Pound for Each of them they are as fine fellows as Ever Crost the Sea If you Should not Want the Boats Plesto order them back tell I Can Git...
Date: 11 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Mr Stephen Steward, Agent for the Congress applies for a Commission for the Ship Chase of the Burthen of two hundred & eighty Tons mounting six Carriage Guns, belonging to the thirteen united States, commanded by Captain Benjamin Chew and navigated by twenty Men, with Six Months Provisions ー On Behalf of the thirteen united States. Witness My Hand this 28th Day of April 1777 [at Baltimore].
Date: 28 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
As the Carpenters Work is now Near Dun of two vessells I have on the Stocks a Schoner of ten guns a zeback of 20 Guns I Shuld be glad to no In What Maner you Intend to have the zeback Riged that I may Provoid Mastes for hir I Was tou'ld you Intended hir for a Ship. I shuld think She would answer best a brigg how Ever I will Rigg hir any way you Desier I Can venter to let you [know] there is no...
Date: 14 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I have long been thinking of a moshen of sum sort to save your town I think I have now fell on one that shall withstand against any ship in the navey that they can trust before your town the moshen must float and carey 20-18 pounders it must be about 108 feet long 32 feet or less broad 5½ feet deep the sides and ends to be glasaded so that the men shall fight under cover and the sides and ends...
Date: 20 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
I shall lanch the Shearback2 to day If the tide favver I have then no bodey to gard hir from the Enemy as they have taken ten of My yard People to March With the Molishe five Jurnemen and five apre[n]teses as I am left Quit Defenseless I Shuld think it Would be Well for you to order ten Soulgers With an officer to gard the two armed vesels till thay Can be got away I Was at anaplois...
Date: 30 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I find the Dolphin1 Eat with the worm like a Huney Come What we have dun to hir I am afraid will make hir leek worse She Cant be maid till without Nue Planking hir allmost all over or at lest Nine streks of a side must Cum out When she went out of my Hands She was in as good order as any boat & Vessel1 culd be She had twelve Sailsviz main Sail fore SailJebb flyingJebb Watter Saile...
Date: 23 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11