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I have yours of the 1st Inst p Jno Heeny and note its Contents ー I sent you 30 Barrells flower p David Harris & the Remaining 120 Brls to make up 150 will come by Heeny who will sail On Tuesday or Wednesdayー
note what you say about Obtaining Clearence for Sugar, Should [Edward] Chappell come down for this Purpose, shall apply to our freind as before & if it can be done with Saifty, but...
Date: 10 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
This Incloses you a piece Called the Crisis Published in London & Signd by the Author & the Printer & Republished here, am told the third Number is also in this City ー no Molasses yet come in, nor not a hhd to be had in this place & Coffee still 11d & flower 16/ hope the flower & Heeny &c is to hand, I am [&c.]
Date: 17 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Dear Sir In great haste I wrote you but a very few lines by [Edward] Chappell this day in Answer to all your letters, wch I beg you will Excuse, for our City has been in Such Tumult & confusion ever since Sunday last that Scarcely any Business has been done, and every day we have had People Marching booth day & Night through the Streets with Arms & they are Exercising &...
Date: 28 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
we have now got all unanimous, and the association Paper Inclosed will be Signd by most every man in this City & all Seems now to go well to put [us] in a state of Defence as Cannon &c will be Carryed to Kingsbridge
our Custom house will be open tomorrow when [Peter] Rogers will [be] Enterd & shall Amediately unload & Dispatch him,2 no money to be Collected nor can we...
Date: 2 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Governor, and Council have ordered me to purchase, Three Hundred Barrells, Or Six Hundred Half Barrells of Gun Powder, ー Am advised to Apply to you. Admit you will Undertake it according to the former Agreement, please to let me hear from you; the first Opportunity. ー It is proposed to keep our own Council I am &c.
Date: 11 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I tarried Yesterday in hope of seeing you here, but suppose you was necessarily prevented from coming ー it's necessary for me to set out this Morning that I may know in Time whether my Employers will engage in the Adventure p your Schooner Macaroni ー and beg you will detain her untill you receive Intelligence from me, which I will forward immediately after I have consulted them ー I have left with...
Date: 16 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Neither the Powder or lead you was Pleased to Order is to be had here at any Rate, as our Committe on Enquiry find us very short ourselves ー the flints I can service you with if you think they will do without the Powder & lead2 . . . times look gloomy here, and dont seem to Alter for the better I am [&c.]
Date: 17 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I have now to inform you, that having communicated the proposed Adventure P your Vessell to the proper Persons, they have authorized me to advise you that they will be concerned therein, for which Purpose I shall return to your Place, where I expect to be by Thursday next or sooner if possible, therefore desire you will keep her till that Time.2
I am [&c.]
Date: 18 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I received yours of the 17th Inst wherein you inform that you are preparing for the Intended Voyage ー wish you good Success ー it is probable I can Send you the money by Mr [Richard] Law, when he goes home which will be better than for you to come here, as it may give Occasion for People to Conjecture Something, that they Know nothing about, I am [&c.]
Date: 18 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I now send you by the Bearer Mr Samuel Hunting a some of Money which he has signd a Receipt here for; to your Adress to purchase Powder please to give him a Receipt that he may Send it back Sir there is Eight half Johaniss which are light if you Purchase in St Eustatia they will pass for 8 Dollars & save me the Loss here & if not your Capt must Change them to Oblige me & save me the...
Date: 18 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I now send you by your Brother, Fifteen Hundred pounds, in order to procure the quantity, I wrote to you about: This is all the Money I have by me at present, . If you stand in need of more, shall be able to supply you soon. Shall expect if possible, you will make up what is lacking of the first parcel, and likewise the number I wrote to you for, in my last. Be so good as to inform the Govr or me...
Date: 30 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
This may inform you that we arrived at Martinico after a Passage of 27 Days & could not procure any Mollosses there ー & then proceeded to Guadalupe & there could have got Mollosses from the Kings Plantation at 130 Joann[es] pr 1000lb but the price to high so came down here & are so unluckly as to find the Messrs Jennings's both gone from home but find it impossible to get any here...
Date: 5 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
After my Respects to you would inform you that we arrived at Martinico the 28th of June when after making Tryall & finding there was Nothing to be done we proceeded to Guadalupe & next to St. Eustatia, at both which Places we met with the same hard Luck ー at Guadalupe Capt [William] Packwood said he could have got a full Supply, but the Price was so very high that he thought it would not...
Date: 14 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
These will in form you of my arovall hear the 9 Instant after lucking at Martiniqua Guadloop St Eustatius & could Not obtain one pound of molasses2 under 6 Livers pr lb I could had the kings store oppend at bearster [Basse Terre] Guadloop & had wat quantey I would perviding I would a given 130 Jons3 pr thousand ー thay take the advanteadg of our Necessety Mr Jenings...
Date: 17 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
These will in form you that I arovd hear the first Instant from the Porte of Lugan [Leogane] was 18 days abstant from My Vessel & have traveld to the different pourts to Vzt Pettet Govrner [Petit Goave] Lugan Poart Au Prince Jackermall [Jacmel] Locores St Lucy & have only Purchast 5000 lb of powder which is pistel powder all that part of this Island is Securd by the Franckmen Which that...
Date: 3 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
This my 3d letter to you sense I arovd out the porte of lugan [Leogane] a serting that I could not corlect no more powder, then 5000 wearth from 2s 6d to 3s 9d pr lb I have bin to all the out ports my Self cap franways [Cape Francois] Port au pee [Port de Paix] poart Dolphin & mont Cristo Excluded Which I have made the macaroni a franch bottom & is gon to those poarts in quest of powder...
Date: 7 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Your's of this day P Capt [Eli] Leavensworth is before me Observe the Contents ー Hope [William] Packwood may arrive Soon; however think it best That as New York, I hear have lately received a quantity of Powder, That the three hundred weight sent to General [David] Wooster be returned in whole or in part ー have therefore written an Order below for that End, I think at Present That the Soldiers...
Date: 22 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I have yours of the 31st ulto p [Richard] Spink, the Contents of wch I have made Publick & much alarms us, yours was the first Accot we had, of the Cruelty of the Hostil Attack of part of the British Navey on the Defenceless Town of Stoningtown ー this Conduct in firing on defenceless towns is a Dishoner to Briton, I hope your People will take Warning & Remove the Women & Effects,...
Date: 2 September 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Should be glad you will let me know by the Post whether your General Assembly have appointed any Court to try Prizes agreeable to Orders of Congress ー as it is time we Should do something with the Prizes in New London.
Your answer will oblige Sir Your Friend at Command
Date: 30 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
State of Connecticut
By Nathl Shaw ー
1776
Cr
May
By 2030½ lb Lead @ 6d
£
50..15..3
By 3255 lb Powder @ 5/4
862..13..4
By 100 Bls of Pork @ £4
400.. ー . ー
14 do Beef 50/
35. ー . ー
40 do Corn 3/
6. ー . ー
By 10 Muskets from the Defence
30. ー . ー
360 Flints do
0..15. ー
By 2 Yoke of Oxen
19. ー . ー
...
Date: 31 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5