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Last Saturday & Sunday the Enemy arrived at the Hook, about 140 Sail, in the whole 3-50 gun ships & three or four smaller ships of Warr ー they sent 2, or 3 right to Quebec from Halifax, & have recd about as many, to reinforce them that they have about the same Number, they carried away from Boston ー it is said they are Sickly ー I don't doubt it; ー The Evening before last, & last...
Date: 4 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
the public Service requireing a Number of Ships & Vessels, I have to request of you. to Set out as soon as possible for Connecticut, & purchass for account of the United States of America, from twenty to thirty ships, sloops & briggs, of the greatest Length of Keel that you Can get, the Least expensive & Oldest vessels will answer, & we want no more Rigging on them than will...
Date: 20 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I received your Letter of the 22d from New Haven, and am sorry there is not a Better prospect of procuring Large vessels, I hope you will have more Success at the eastern part of the Colony, should you not we must do the best we can with the sloops, the Sooner you send them off the better, if you find you Cannot get a sufficient Number of Large, I believe you must even take the two, tho...
Date: 25 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I hoped to have heard by last evenings post, of your Success at the eastwd our folks are idle for want fo vessels to proceed on ー I beg you will purchase & Send down to me a quantity of pitch tar & turpentine, 50 bar[rel]s of each will do for the present, if any Coal for Smiths use is to be had send me as much as you can get, as we are in great want, thereof, the stoppage of the North...
Date: 28 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Your favr of 9th Inst is before me by which I find you have Your Share of Disappointments as well as my Self ー my Own I will not mention Except the Loss of my Brig2 with a fine Parcell of Molases Last Tuesday off Montock Point, the People got off in their Long Boat & Left the Brig for the Frigates ー Simeon [Deane] is going to Phila he will Call on you & In-form you how matters...
Date: 14 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Sir ー You are desired forthwith to furnish the Brig Minerva under the command of Capt Giles Hall with men & all necessary Provisions and Warlike Stores for a Cruise of Six Months making use of Such Stores as may be on hand of the Property of the Colony, and Purchase such as may be wanting, Consulting with Capt Hall about the Same as far as will be needful and in Case you Cannot obtain a...
Date: 7 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I Should according to my Promise have wrote you from Windham, but finding Colo. Trumbull1 to be better than had been Represented, also that he had himself wrote you, thought it Needless, on my Arrival here found Colo. Sargent2 was gone for Salem I wrote him, as you desired, to have your Part of the Prize in the Origional Effects—But whether thro hurry,...
Date: 7 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11