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I embrace this opportunity of Captain Nicholson's return to Paris to acquaint you with my arrival here yesterday about four o'Clock in the afternoon ー Mr Penet having some bussiness at Orleans ー detained us at that place a few hours wh together with the badness of the roads rendered it impossible for us to make greater dispatch than we did ー I have now the pleasure to acquaint you that best part...
Date: 14 January 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I have already wrote you by this Conveyance relative to your concerns in this part of the World ー which letter I hope you'l receive in due time, and these few lines may serve to acquaint you with the safe arrival of the Schooner Jenifer from Baltimore on the I Ith Instant in the Afternoon ー Captain Larkin Hammond having made application to me to advise and assist him in the transaction of the...
Date: 13 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
. . . Yesterday the Ship Versailles Captain [Joseph] Chapman arrived here in 40 days from Boston 2 . . . Captain [Nicholas] Bartlett in the Brigt Penet will sail for Boston in about 10 days from this date . . .
Date: 19 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
At the request of Captain John Robarts of the Schooner Mary lately arrived from Charles Town South Carolina I beg leave to acquaint you that William Machmaster one of his Sailors, is now detained a Prisoner in this City, charged with having drowned one John Hoggins belonging to the same Vessell ー the real circumstances are as follows ー The said Machmaster & Hoggins took the Ship's boat with...
Date: 3 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I have been here some time in order to expedite sundry Vessells arrived to my address from different parts of America — and embrace this Oppy to acquaint you that Captain Hariden in the Privateer Brigt Tyrannicide was chased in here on Saturday last by the Fudroyant and had a miraculous escape — he was under the necessity of throwing all his Guns overboard to lighten the Brigt he was fortunate...
Date: 17 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9