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You are to take as many Men out of the Alfred as will make your Compliment eighty five, and proceed on a Cruise against the Enemies of the United Colonies for three or four Weeks in such places as you think will most annoy the Enemy if you do not take as many Prizes as you can well Mann sooner
You are also to endeavour to keep Company with the Cabot, and give such directions to Lieutenant Hinman...
Date: 12 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Mr [Elisha] Warner comes down and Mr [Philip] Brown. I think it will be best for you to Order Mr [Benjamin] Dunn to act as Lieutenant in the Room of Mr [James] Josiah2 and for Mr Browne to Act as Master ー but think it will be prudent not to give a Commission or Warrant till we hear further from Mr Josiah ー for if he returns he must have his old birth. I am your Friend
Date: 17 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I have receiv'd intelligence that the british Ships are drove out of Boston Bay, and that two Transports are taken with 210 Soldiers on board ー think it will be best if you should take any Prizes Eastward of the Shoals it Safest to send them to boston ー
Should the Providence not get to Boston where she is Order'd you will call on Mr John Bradford and take a Vessel Loaded with Coal & Convoy to...
Date: 18 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I have just Received Orders from Congress to Repair to Philadelphia immediately; and as I believe Captain Saltonstall & Capt Whipple are likewise Order'd to Philadelphia the Command of the Fleet devolves on you as oldest Officer ー Should be glad you take the most prudent Steps to Conduct the same in such Manner as will be most for the Publick good ー be carefue that you take no Steps with the...
Date: 20 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I wrote to you a few days ago by the Post Charles says you wont thank me for it for My letter Cant be worth the Postage, I hope you wont say so ー your Vessel is to be Launch'd on Monday Next 2 we long to see you Charles and Stacy 3 went yesterday ー Our family Prety well ー No Particular News, so I shall make this letter like Charles a note ー your affect Sister
Date: 12 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
This day we din'd on a Turtle wich you Sent in hear, and was taken out of the Wreck2 and as he was destin'd for the Support of the Pres't Infamous Ministry in Great Brittain we Condemn'd him as a Tory ー and have dealt with him Accordingly ー and I hope you'l have the Good Luck to alter the Course of many more of them, that are sent on the same Purpose Viz to fill their Damn'd Gutts...
Date: 3 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Mr pain being gone to the camp I have Taken the liberty to trouble you with a answer to your Letter Capt biddle goodness I know will excuse the Writeing and the Stile. with a heart full of greif for the Fate of a worthy brother obligd to Smother that greif For fear of more distressing an aged father, the prayers of that father and Sister Shall attend and wish you Success in all your undertakeings...
Date: 7 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
. . . for Action, yet when we consider you will have Seamen & Marines sufficient to work the Ship, we think it much more for the public interest to risquc her out on these terms than to let her remain & be destroyed. You are therefore to repair on bd the Randolph Frigate of wch you are Commander and proceed with all possible dilligence to Sea. We shall not at this time prescribe to you...
Date: 13 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
The Petition of Christianna McMullen most humbly sheweth, that your Honrs Petitioner is a poor Distressed woman and Have been by Infirmitys and other Disorders rendered Incapable of Getting a Livelihood for her self These several Years past your Petitioner's Son being Pressed on Board your Honrs Ship which was the sole support of your Honrs Poor Petitioner
May it Therefore Please your Honor to...
Date: 19 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I have undoubted intelligence that there are not any men of war at the Capes indeed as an evidence of it a large Ship is come up the Bay, I therefore think it highly proper that you proceed to sea immediately, and as you have now more men considerably than you had when I gave your last orders, I think proper to recall those and instead thereof you must Observe the following Instructions. —
You...
Date: 30 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
I take the liberty to send you herewith Doctor Eneas Munson's Certificate who attended me during my Sickness last year, after my return from on board the Black Brigg Andrew Doria, at same time humbly pray that you will Oblige me with your Qrder upon Mr Shaw, to pay me all my Wages and such Shares of Prize money, as shall a,ppear due to me, as I shou'd really be in want of Necessaries, if some of...
Date: 14 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
I hope this will soon be delivered to you after d[i]spatched from hence as I have received directions from the Marine Committee at Baltimore to send you on A different service to that which the Orders I gave you before you left fort Island directed.2
With this you will receive Letters for William Bingham Esqr the Continental Resident at Martinico and you are immediately to proceed for...
Date: 15 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Your letter of the 14th instant is the only one we have received since the misfortune of carrying away your masts or indeed since you left the Capes of Delaware so that we are strangers to the cause and manner of that unfortunate accident, if you wrote us any previous Letter it never reached our hands. We observe with infinite concern that your people have been and remain Sickly ー this has...
Date: 26 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
You are directed in the Instructions in which these are inclosed to break the seal of this Letter on the 10th day of July next at that time we expect you will be cruizing near the Island of Hispaniola, and that agreeable to our former orders you will have the Randolph Frigate in good order and every way fit for Action. We have it in contemplation to Strike a Stroke against the British West India...
Date: 29 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I make thus bold to Lay my present as well as tormer Situation before you. Last August Travelling Towards New York from this Town Looking for Work and finding none, hearing of the King's Proclamation to go to Boston and there have full Employment I went on Board A Transport where Afterwards I was forced to Remain as A Soldier though Quite Contrary to the proclamation, (as it Said therein) that...
Date: 28 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Agreeable to promise I appl'd to get The Swords at Kingsinton, but they Gentn wou'd Not part with one howr I got ten as a foot Which I hope will be of Service & I dont think there Is many more for Sale unless new, there is no [illegible] Lead here, only wht is in the Comittees Stores You may get it by Sending a note to [Robert] Towers the Comissary, My Boy I send down to proceed [wi]th you,...
Date: 14 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
to Nicholas Biddle
To Cash paid for Officers and Seamens Board Wages as P enclosed Account 3
£53 ー 15 ー 3
To a Months pay Advance to John Chiswell. James Wilson. George Kelly. John Moies. and William Adams, Seamen and Peter Miller Landsman
17 ー 10 ー 0
To Cash paid Mr [James] Josiah for his expences in Philadelphia in quest of Deserters. for 9 days
1 ー 13 ー 0
To Cash paid...
Date: 19 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Sir You are hereby Ordered to keep Company with me if possible and truly Observe the Signals given by the Ship I am in ー But in Case you should be Separated in a Gale of Wind or otherwise ー You then are to use all possible Means to join the Fleet as soon as possible ー But if you cannot in four days after you leave the Fleet You are to make the best of your way to the Southern part of Abacco one...
Date: 14 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Present Edward Blake Esqr. first Commissioner
Geo Abt. Hall, Thos Savage, Edw Darrell Esqrs—
Captains Hall,1 Sullivan,2 Morgan,3 & Anthony4 attended the Board, and reported that they Could not possibly be ready as they could wish, to proceed to Sea on the Intended Expedition, until the next Spring Tides,...
Date: 13 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11