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At one O Clock P:M: Mr [Peter] Levius came to see me, & to my great joy inform'd me that the Genl had given his Consent for me to go home on Parole, & that we should sail this afternoon, ー at 5: of the Clock the Town Major Came for Major [Return Jonathan] Meigs & myself, to go to the Lieut Governor. to give our parole, the verbal agreement we made was, that if ever there was an...
Date: 20 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
This morning we enter'd the mouth of Halifax, Harbour, as we pass'd up the Town has a very handsome appearance, at 12 O Clock we came to anchor near the Town & at Two, we went on shore. the land on which this Town is built rises gradually until it forms a beautiful eminence, call'd the Citadel-Hill, the Town is handsomely laid out, the buildingrs] are but small in general, at the upper end of...
Date: 1 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
3 O Clock this afternoon, then we embark'd on Board his Majesties Ship Scarborough.
6 Lord [Hugh] Percy din'd on board the Scarborough, at his Coming on Board he was saluted by thirteen Guns from this ship, & the same number from several ships that lay near us, I went ashore to day and found an opportunity of writing to my fellow prisoners in Quebec, which I gladly embraced.
7..8..9 We still...
Date: 24 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
At 12. O.Clock to-day we sail'd from Cumberland with a fresh Breeze.
26 at 8..O Clock this morning we came to anchor at the mouth of Anapolis Harbour, seven Leagues from the Town, from Fort Cumberland to this place is thirty Leagues, Anapolis lays on the east side of the Bay of Fundy, the Land at the Mouth of the Harbour, is very Mountanious, and Barren, as is almost all the Land on this Coast...
Date: 29 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
This morning we come to sail with a good Breeze,3 we are extremely well Treated by Capt [Samuel] Graves, and the other officers on Board at 7 O Clock this evening we are abreast of Grand Manan.
July 1 We have very little wind, the weather is very Cloudy, at 12..0..Clock We have a brisk Breeze and a thick Fog.
2 The weather remains Foggy, we have a light Breeze; our General Course is S....
Date: 4 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5