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the public Service requireing a Number of Ships & Vessels, I have to request of you. to Set out as soon as possible for Connecticut, & purchass for account of the United States of America, from twenty to thirty ships, sloops & briggs, of the greatest Length of Keel that you Can get, the Least expensive & Oldest vessels will answer, & we want no more Rigging on them than will...
Date: 20 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I received your Letter of the 22d from New Haven, and am sorry there is not a Better prospect of procuring Large vessels, I hope you will have more Success at the eastern part of the Colony, should you not we must do the best we can with the sloops, the Sooner you send them off the better, if you find you Cannot get a sufficient Number of Large, I believe you must even take the two, tho...
Date: 25 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I hoped to have heard by last evenings post, of your Success at the eastwd our folks are idle for want fo vessels to proceed on ー I beg you will purchase & Send down to me a quantity of pitch tar & turpentine, 50 bar[rel]s of each will do for the present, if any Coal for Smiths use is to be had send me as much as you can get, as we are in great want, thereof, the stoppage of the North...
Date: 28 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I do hereby Certify that Captain Benjn Eyre, built & completely finished two Gondolas or Row Galleys, one other, is finished all but the smiths work, and one was Left on the Stocks at Newyork entirely Timberd & Rigged
that he was actively employed about the Water frize, Sunck in the North River & has been allso employed to appraise sixteen vessells taken up to sink in the North and...
Date: 27 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
We were too sanguine in our expectation[s] on saturday, which occasiond Mr Moylan to tell Mr Reed, that one of the Schooners would be ready for the sea on thursday next it is difficult to procure Carpenters to put them in the necessary order, we therefore think it win be saturday before the first will be ready to sail, on that day we wou'd recommend to your Excellency to order the Captain &...
Date: 9 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Sir I am impowerd by His Excellency General Washington to appoint Agents in the different ports, to take care of any prizes that may be sent in, by three Arm'd schooners fitted & now fitting out to distress the enemy in Boston, shoud any or either of Sd Schooners send in or bring in a prize into this Harbor of Newbury Port, you will please to take charge of her, & with all papers of...
Date: 10 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I arrived here the 11th inst. & deliverd Colonel [Joseph] Reeds Letter to the Chairman of the Committee in Consequence of which he calld a meeting of the members, the result was, that they woud deliver to my care 1200 barrells of the flour, and let me know what woud be done, with the rest of the Cargo, when they received an Answer to a Letter they had wrote to your Excellency, in which (they...
Date: 13 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Mr Moylan received your letter of this day with the money he had received at Portsmouth 260 dolls the evening of the day he last wrote you, this serves to acquaint his Excellency that Capt Broughton, & Capt Sillman will both be ready to sail tomorrow, the latter is in want of a Surgeon, which you will be pleased to have dispatched, as we believe it will be difficult to prevail on the Capt...
Date: 19 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The Schooners Commanded by Captains Broughton & Sillman [John Selman] Saild this morning, as they had none but their old Colours, we appointed them a signal, that they may Know each other by, & be known to their friends ー the ensign up to the Main topping Lift, ー
you will please to order the Crew of the Schooner to be mannd out of General sullivans Brigade, to hold themselves in readiness...
Date: 22 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I am much obliged to you that you take notice of my Letter p Wilson, & doubt not he will answer yours & my expectation, I wish with all my soul that these, two vessells were dispatchd chiefly for the publick Service, & allso that I may have the pleasure of seeing my friends Mr Lynch & Col. Harrison, I want much to be introduced to Doctor Franklin, for whom I have many years a vast...
Date: 24 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I received your favor to me of the 25th & Communicated that part of it which regarded Col. [John] Glover unto him ー when I last wrote to you, I gave the true reasons, for the delay attending the fitting out of these two vessells
I observe you had given orders to young Glover for all the things write to you for, & he is returned without the most Material Article, which is the 300 Swivel...
Date: 27 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
We received your favor of the 25th Instant incloseing instructions for the Agents, one of which we will deliver to the person appointed for this place & transmit the others to Portsmouth Newbury &ca &ca
the first article mentions the laying in provisions Conformable to an inclosed paper, which inclosure was omitted, you will therefore please to send us five of them, & one more...
Date: 28 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I arrived here last Evening & informed His Excellency of your Attention & Assistance in Negociating the transportation of the flour from your port, to Ipswich & Salem. I have it in Command from the General to return you his thanks, and at the Same [time] to inclose you his instructions to the Agents appointed for the Armed Vessels now fitted or hereafter may be fitted out for the...
Date: 1 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Sir Your favour of the 30th Ulto by Major Tupper is come to hand ー as it is your opinion that Dartmouth is a place of greater Security for the Vessels than Plymouth, it is his Excellency's desire that they be laid up there ー Such Articles on board as are perishable had better be Sold immediately, the Vessels Rigging, Sails, &c with the Remainder of the Cargoes, you will please to have...
Date: 2 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I am Commanded by His Excellency to acknowledge your favor of yesterday by Capt. [Moses] Brown, which brings an account of a Sloop from Boston bound to Annapolis Royal having fallen into our hands,2 it is his Excellencys pleasure, that you take an accurate inventory of all the goods on board & as soon as you Conveniently can transmit them to Head quarters, where there is no doubt,...
Date: 5 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I am ordered by His Excellency to acknowledge the receipt of your favors of the 30th Ulto & 3d inst Such articles on board the Vessels taken by Major Tupper as are Subject to perish: you had better have sold off immedy, the Vessels & apurtenances to be securely Laid up, & the Cargoes Carefully Stored, until farther orders from hence, a manifest of the Cargo, you will please to Send us...
Date: 6 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
His Excellency wrote you a few Lines Yesterday, informg you, he could not send the sheathing nails; he has ordered me to acknowledge the receipt of your favour of the 6 Inst giving an account of Two prizes being carried into your Harbour by Captn Coit ー Instructions relative to them are sent to the Agent, William Watson Esqr
I Hope Captn Coit will not be detained long by the badness of his Masts...
Date: 8 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I wrote you the 6th inst to which you will please to be refferd, your favor of the Same date to his Excellency is Come to hand ー it is his pleasure that you Sell the different articles found on board the two prizes & transmit a Cappy of the Sales to Head quarters when finished, the Schooner & Sloop Must be Carefully laid up until further orders ー
I hope we shall soon hear of Capt. Manly...
Date: 8 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I am commanded by his Excellency to inform you that it is, his opinion, that those persons who belong to the Two Schooners sent into Marblehead2 be discharg'd on Condition they can get Bondsmen for their not leaving Marblehead & such a district about it as to you will seem proper, lest they give information to the enemy of the destination of Captns Broughton & Selman ー these...
Date: 9 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Sir I am commanded by his Excellency General Washington to forward papers relative to the Sloop Polly & Schooner Industry with the Captains & Sailors, also Mr Jabez Hatch, who appears to be a noted Tory and is Owner of one of these Vessels which were taken by one of these Armed Vessels fitted out at the Continental expence,2 you will please to return these Papers...
Date: 10 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2