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Gentn We are informed by Mr Hugh Young that 500 wt of Powder belonging to this Province ar[ri]ved at Newbern in No Carolina from St Eustatia shipp'd by Captn Abraham Van bebber on Board of Captn Luce ー you will probably want the Powder, ー therefore we have given him no Orders for it's Removal, but will exchange, if you think proper for the same Quantity to be delivered us by your Delegates at...
Date: 25 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I informd you that Stevens and Kennedy was at Deep inlet During the Two Days I was at New river and yesterday I have Learnt thier Secrett intentions if General [James] moore has not informd you, you may Believe what follows Persons were employd by Stevens on the Coast to give inteligens to tenders were to Call in Deep inlett and Rich inlett Sundays and Thursdays where he was to meet them one...
Date: 25 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Brigadier General Robert Howe to the Chairman of the North Carolina Council of Safety, June 29, 1776
The necessity we have for powder, & the certainty of your having it res placed from Virginia, induces me to request of you, (by the desire of Gen. Lee) to despatch with the utmost expedition, as large a quantity as you can possibly spare, as the safety of this place, may probably depend upon it.
As the General has enclosed, open for your perusal, his account of yesterday's action to the...
Date: 29 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
We being intrusted by your Honble Board to fit out an armed Vessel from this Port, can now inform your Honours that the Brig! Pennsylvania Farmer is compleatly fitted and man'd ready for service, and hath been so some months past only for the want of shot, which we have now got, sufficient for a Cruise and as she is so well man'd and fitted, and the whole Crew as well officers as men so anxious...
Date: 1 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Mr Stanly [John Wright Stanley] having Occasion to wait on you with a memorial relative to the Conduct of the Commissioners of the Provincial armed Vessel the Pennsylvania Farmer permit me bynthe same Opportunity to lay before your Honours something on the same Subject To this Duty I am impelled by the strongest of Ties, a sacred and venerable Regard for constitutional Liberty and the Honour and...
Date: 10 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Since the Resolve of your Honorable Board came to hand for the King Tamminy to Cruize we have been indefaticable in Our Endeavours to get her Mann'd and rendered fit for Sea, and we have the pleasure to inform you that She is now nearly, or quite complete.
We have lately been informed the Pennsylvania Farmer is gone up to New Bern, to heave down, and will not be ready for some considerable time...
Date: 18 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
We have ordered Commodore Hopkins immediately to proceed to Cape Fear in the state of North Carolina with the following Vessells under his command viz.
The Alfred of
30 Guns
Columbus
28 do
Cabot
16 do
Hampden
16. do
Providence.
10 do
Continental
Frigates
Warren
32 do
if these two last
Providence
28 do
mentiond can be made ready in...
Date: 23 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Honble Gentlemen We had the pleasure of writing to you some time ago by Mr. Goddard surveyor of the Post Office, we now send by the waggon that you directed us to procure (to the care of Saml. Johnston Esquire at Edenton) the Drums, Colours, 2 Fifes, Pamphlets and a quantity of Powder to make up the load, we hope you will receive them safe and doubt not you will cause them to be...
Date: 10 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
We received information from Genl Washington about ten days ago that the Mercury Ship of War and several Transports with General [Henry] Clinton and a number of Soldiers on board had sail'd out of Boston harbour and that he was informed they were bound to New York, in consequence of this intelligence he had sent of[f] General Lee to take the Command of such forces as could be immediately marched...
Date: 13 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3