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We are informed by a Letter from the Captains of the Continental Frigates in Hudsons River that the General officers sent by His Excellency General Washington to veiw the fortications and obstructions in Said River were of opinion that the frigates would be serviceable in defending and covering the same and we find by an extract from your Minutes enclosed that you were of the same opinion.—
In...
Date: 26 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Enclosed you have a copy of a letter just received from the honourable marine committee, at Philadelphia.2 Agreeably thereto, I should have done myself the pleasure of waiting on you at Esopus, to join in filling up the commissions and warrants for the officers of this ship, but thought it im prudent to leave the vessel at this juncture, for fear of a sudden invasion.
I have the...
Date: 13 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I am informed by the gentlemen of the marine committee that they have sent you the pay list and regulations of the Navy,2 which you will be pleased to forward by my first lieutenant Daniel Shaw,3 who has been appointed since the tenth of March, and as I am informed by a letter from the marine committee that the commissions are to be pro tempore, he wishes to have that matter...
Date: 14 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I have received an order of your Board dated the 16th inst. with blank warrants enclosed for boatswain and cook, for the frigate under my command, which warrants I take the liberty to enclose and return you.
When I engaged to take the command of this ship, it was on these express conditions, that I should have the liberty of naming all officers on board, as by the enclosed extracts of letters...
Date: 20 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Your letter of 16th inst. I duly received with blank warrants for only boatswain and cook, which I take the liberty of returning unfilled.
Captn. Grennell2 and myself took for granted, when we accepted the command of the ships, we had an undoubted right to nominate and appoint all our officers. A letter from Francis Lewis, Esqr. (one of the honourable marine committee) dated 21st...
Date: 23 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9