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Sir Mr White of Marblehead from Boston who has been an Addresser, was dismissed yesterday after having been taken in a Vessel of his own with Salt & carryed up to that place ー He informs the Inhabitants of Marblehead that a transport arrived there yesterday with 150 Troops & sailed from Ireland in Company with 33 more, which had on board 8 Regiments 350 Recruits & 1 Regiment of...
Date: 15 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Our worthy Friend Colo Lee, by Desire of the Committee of Supplies for the Colony, wrote to You before his Decease for a Quantity of Ammunition & some Arms; & in Consequence of Your Letter to him,2 We send You the Rockingham Capt Johnson wth £1000 Sterg in Cash, & six Hundred & fifty pounds Bills of Exche on your House to be invested in good pistol & Cannon powder ー...
Date: 5 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I read your Favour of May the 18th with the inclosed Letters & am sorry to find that the Enemy had disposed of your Vessel; but the Fortune of War is uncertain & we must be contented therewith, ー I think it a happy affair that Capt. [James] Mugford took the powder vessel altho you Loss of so brave a Man is to be lamented. ー I am glad to find you are fortifying Marblehead, pray give by...
Date: 8 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
My attention is directed to the fitting out of privateers, which I hope will make them swarm here. Is it not time to encourage individuals to exert themselves this way? General [Thomas] Gage before the commencement of hostilities destroyed or confiscated the provisions then collecting for the army, and can we hesitate at this time about the propriety of confiscating vessels employed by him to...
Date: 9 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Dear sir I recd your Favour of the 5th of Novr & the Enquiries relative to Vessels suitable to be armed, Commanders & Seamen to man the same, secure places for building new Vessels of Force &care important in their Nature, & to have the same effectually answered I propose to submit them as soon as may be to the Court that a Committee may be raised for obtaining the Facts from the...
Date: 4 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2