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pursuant to your Directions I have tryed to get a Capt for the Ship — and conversed with Capt Stone, (the bearer hereof, whom I beg leave to recomend to your Honours as a Gentleman of Fidelity & Dispatch, and suitable for the Command of the Ship) he wants to know whether, if the Ship is taken; the Wages should be forfeited, or continue 'till he returns home, also whether she is to be sold...
Date: 8 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
I have engaged a few Seamen for the ship I am to load for the hone Board War — the bearer hereof is One — who tells Me it is the Custom here, for Sailors to be pd Wages from the Time of entering, 'till the Vessel sails, also One Months Advance ,,vages; therefore declines entering, unless I agree with him for the same, I should be glad to have Directions from the hone Board how to proceed — I have...
Date: 15 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
. . . I wrote last Fryday to the hone Geo: Williams Esq. about Objections the sailors here had, in engaging should be glad of Directions in entering them — They want 1 Mos pay & their Wages for the Time in port advanced, also Stores such as Rum, Coffee & Sugar, found on the Passage out, & home — should be glad to know the No of Men wanted — have engaged about 90 Masts from 20 to 26...
Date: 17 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
I have recd the Ship Content of Capt [John] Langdon, & given a Rect have not been able to get either Master or Hands Yet ー tho' Capt Staret (by whom I sent my last Letter) says he will take Command if his Wages are paid during the Time of the Voyage, taken, or not taken; & upon no Other Conditions ー he now has the Care of the Ship, & further says the mizzen sail is Useless it is so...
Date: 14 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8