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You being Master & part Owner of the Sloop Polley bound To Surinam Our Orders Are that you proceed & make your passage as Soon as possable and Dispose of the Cargo to the best Advantage and layout the neet proceeds in Good Melass[es] Sugar, Cotton Powder Small arms, Nutmegs, Silk & Linnen Henkerchiefs Rousia Drab Ravens duck Ticklinbourg Ozenbrigs (but no Heavey Duck) Course Linnens...
Date: 11 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I Wrote You of 10th Inst. p Post In Ansr to yrs of the 2nd Inst sinc wch have recd Orders from the Secret Comme of Congress, to send you 100 Bolts of the Contl Duck, wch is now forwarded by Mr Dogets Waggon to the care of Capt Jere Stamford of Ipswich as you Directed it was with the Graitest Difficulty Could get it Carted Just at this Time, Was Obgd to give at the rate of 3/6, LM, p 100 from...
Date: 15 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Amount of the Cargo &c of the Severil Vessills Fitted out on Acct of the Contenent by Nichs & John Brown ー Viz
Sloop Polley Benja Cumstock
£
932.. 1.. ー
Schooner William Joshua Bunker
4536.. 8..3
Brigg Happy Return Gideon Crawford
3036.. 5..3½
Schooner Salley Saml Avery
4067.11..6
£
12572.. 6..0½
Commn 5 PCt
628.12..3½
£
13200.18..4
First...
Date: 23 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
You being Master of the Schooner Sally fitted by Us with your Cargo onbord, on Accot & Risque of the thirteen United Colonys In consequence of a Contract with the secret Comte of the Honbl Contenental Congress, Our Orders are that you proceed with all possable Dispatch Consistant with the Graitest Prudence & Care to Avoid the Enemy, to Nantes in France or to Some safe Place at the...
Date: 23 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I received yours of the 17th Instant covering a letter from Robert Morris Esqr Chairman of the secret Committee of Congress, for the forwarding Fourteen Muskets in our hands belonging to the Continent in the most safe and Expeditious manner, ten of said Muskets with some swivels we had before put on board two valuable Vessels and Cargoes we lately Fitted for France on the Continental Service by...
Date: 27 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
We the Subscribers all of Providence in the Colony of Rhode Island Merchants request your Honor to grant a Commission or Letters of Marque and Reprisal to Lewis Thomas Commander of the Sloop Snowbird of which we are Owners, She is burthened about Fifty-six Tons carries Four Swivel Guns, manned with Six Men and fitted with a suitable Quantity of Military Stores &c. Lewis Thomas is Captain and...
Date: 8 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
You being Commander as well as part Owner of the Sloop Diamond now bound [on] a Crews Against the Enemeys to the thirteen United Coloneys, our Instrucktions are that You proceade to Sea as Soon as possable and that You Crews off Burmudose, the Bay of Mantancis Cape St Anthoneys or Crooked Island Passage, as You and Your Principle Officers May think best, and that You take Aney Vessill or Other...
Date: 7 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Yours of the 3rd April 1st And 16. of May is Before us the 43 ps which Capt Comstock Told us was Rousia sheeting Turn'd out Ravins duck is now All made up for the Friggets Light Sails. 100 ps Rousia duck was sent to Mr Langdon the Remaining 93 Both Lays in our stores waiting Your Orders. 10 of the small Arms was Gone in two of the Vessells we Fitted on Continental Acct Vizt Cap ts Crawford and A...
Date: 15 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Yours of the 5th Inst is before us, Mr [John] Langdon Claims the Preference to you of the Cannon as his Vessel is now ready as he says for them and yours is not, as to price we say the last Guns we have sold was at £80 Lawful money P Ton since which they have been sold here at Double That At Vendue, a Gentleman from this Town has Engagd a sett to be Made at one of the Furnaces in Your Province...
Date: 16 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
You being Master of Our Sloop America bound for St aCroix with a Letter of Mark ー Our Orders are that you Imbrace every favourable Wind to gain your Passage and when You Arrive to Dispose of your Cargo to the best Advantage for our Interest, and layout all the nett proceeds, in the following Articles viz in Good rum, Ten or Twelve Good 4 lb Cannon, (if 4 lb Cannon cannot be got, get 6 lb ones)...
Date: 21 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I received your Favr of the 12th Inst and have not been able to answer it 'till now, as I cou'd not get the Sentiments of the Ships Committee about lending you The Guns as you propos'd 'till the last post and not haveing oppertunity to Consult Esqr Hopkins (The Manager Of the Furnace) 'till this Morning, Could not Determine the Time we Cou'd Compleat a sett for you 'till now, which through the...
Date: 30 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
This serves to Inclose you Capt Gidn Cra[w]fords & the French Merchts Accots for sales and Returns of the Cargo of the Brigg Happy return in 56 days from Nantes, he brings Accots of Capt [Samuel] Avery in the Schooner Sally at Nantes & Capt [Joshua] Bunker in the Schooner William at Burdox, fited by Us on the Contenentl Accot Capt Craford recd abot 12000 Livrs of Capt Avery ー which is...
Date: 1 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I recd your Mr Pliarne favr of the 4th Sept & one singd by the Co of the 16 Oct wch Came under Cover to the Govor —The Contents of both Observe, One of Our Vessels Capt Craford is Arrivd safe,2 The Other Capt Avary [Samuel Avery] we dayly look for 3 We find by the Accots hrot that Oil is very low in France & that its Attended with a Grait Duty wch if it is Not taken...
Date: 5 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
This serves Just to Inform you of the Arrival of Capt [Samuel] A very in the schooner Salley from Nantes wch place he left the last of Sept has brot but 26 Bal(e]s of Cloth & 16 m[illegible]ys of Salt, a Considerable of wch he supposes to have melted on his passage Acation'd by his Limber post getg out — The Invo[ice] he Del[ivere]d you have Inclos'd but no Acct yet Deld have not as yet had...
Date: 22 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
The Committee who weir appointed to Build The two Ships at this place,2 wrote you some time passed, and Transmitted an Account of the outstanding Bills still due to the Workmen imployed in that Service, and desired to Receive the Money or an Order on the Loan Office for the payment of them. altho I am cartain you Received This letter, yet have had no Money Order, or any other Answer....
Date: 21 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
As the Danger of Coming into this place is very grait on Accot of the Many ships & Cutters the Enemey hath now Crewsing we Would have you Land What Goods you have of Ours Eighther Powder Arms or Dry Goods or Duck at East Hampton,2 & Order them a Cross to sag Harbore, from thence to be forwarded to the Care of Mr Lefingwell of Norwich, there is One Esq Forster or his Son at Sag...
Date: 25 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The Bearer here of Mr Benja ー Comstock & his Brother Capt Jos Comstock the latter of wch is lately from the West Indies with a small Vessel & Cargo now at your Place in wch we are some part Concernd The Prest State of the Enemys Crusers A bot this Collony are such that we think it not safe she should Come round Just Now ー Any Advice or Assistance they May Stand In need of Given upon...
Date: 12 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
From the Little acquintance I had with you in Trade when here a few Years Ago, I now Imbrace this Oppotunity to Address You In this Manner. As Capt Dovall [Douville] Informs Me You have a Vessel at St Peters2 where you Dwell, I have to propose to You to take of you a Load of Good Merchtb Codfish Deliverd here any time between this and the first of March Next at 15/ L M, p Quentle [...
Date: 15 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I have Wrote by you to Mr Charles Jovett of St Peters with a plan for him to take a Cargo from there to bring here, or to go home to France with you or Otherways, & to take in a Cargo there for this Place, with Orders to Make full Insurance, upon what Interest I may have onbord his Vessel Agst all resques, in eighther passage from St Peters here or, from France here And In order that he be...
Date: 15 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
. . . but the Powder Must be Deld in this Colony before the first day of April next at furthest, wch if it is the Goverment have Ingaged to take it At half a Dolr p lb, . . . to bring ¾ the Vallue of the Cargo in Powder, if to be got the next greatest Profit will be in Good [blurred] Brandy wch now worth a Dollar pr Galln by the [Qy] Or guns of 3 fot 9 Inch barrel &c you will Observe Brother...
Date: 15 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2