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Pursuant to powers received from the Hon. the Continental Congress, the Committee of Safety are ready to grant commissions for making reprisals upon the property of the people of Great Britain, at sea, or in the rivers, below high-water mark, to any persons who shall apply for them, and comply with the terms mentioned by Congress.
Date: 17 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Genl. [Charles] Lee is in North Carolina, where it is uncertain what number of the Enemy's Troops are arrived. The Genl. is of Opinion they will not stay there longer than to take an Airing, and to go to So.Carolina or Virginia. He means to stay at Newburn to Watch the determination and meet them at either place. He thinks rage and revenge may prompt them to Attack Wilmington, but hopes Brigr. [...
Date: 24 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir. On Wednesday last Lord Dunmore and the Fleet at Norfolk, quitted that station and fell down into Hampton Road, where they remained 'til yesterday evening, when they got under way, apparently intending out to sea, but this morning were discovered by our look outs to have turned up the Bay and had passed the mouth of York River. I this moment received the intelligence and thought it might be...
Date: 26 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Resolved unanimously that the Committee of Safety be directed to write a letter to the President of the Convention of Maryland in answer to his Letter of the twenty fifth instant expressing the deepest concern at the proceedings of that Convention respecting Governor Eden and our reasons for not becoming accessory thereto by giving him a passport through this Colony or the Bay adjoining: That we...
Date: 31 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
...We build our Government slowly, I hope it will be founded on a Rock. Dunmore with 400 half starved motly soldiers on Gwyns Island, and 2000 of Our men on the Main are looking at each other as two Tenders are in the thoroughfare between Milford Haven and Piankatank to stop the Passage and the Fleet in the River to Protect the Island....
Date: 1 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
. . . It seems we have 7 men of War in Our bay, who have been hitherto tolerably civil; a Vessell loaded with Blankets luckily escaped them and it got up York River. We have an Account that one of our Vessels sent out on a trading Voiage on Public Account, is taken off St. Kitts, by whom or whither carried, I have not heard. . . .
Date: 8 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
I have by express, your obliging favour of the 5th; we were in some sort, prepared for the disagreeable intelligence of the small hopes of an accomodation, by reports and papers here intimating the same thing. Colonel [Richard] Corbin has a letter from a hand connected in some manner with Admon, that the plan was to withdraw all troops, and send men of war and cutters, to put a stop to all...
Date: 15 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Last week the King Fisher and four tenders full of men came up to Burwells Ferry and made several attempts to land during three days stay, but never came nearer than to receive a discharge of the Rifles, when they retired with great pricipitation, and 'tis Supposed the loss of some men. They had in [the?] time a droll contest for a small Cyder boat with one man, who lay between them about 200 yds...
Date: 16 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Young Goodrich, who brought in the Powder is sent to Boston ー They have also Taken the Old man near the Capes, in his Passage to the West Indies, & 'tis said Used him very Ill, but I had not particulars.
Date: 27 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I laid yr. Favr. of this morning before the Commee of Safety who desire you will order a proper Escort from hence to bring up all the Prisoners from Hampton as soon as may be, as to the Salt they suspend directg. the unlading it 'til the Convention shall determine whether it may be proper to risque it round to & up York River. They approve of continuing in the service Latimers Vessell you...
Date: 23 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
We think it our indispensible duty to inform you that a 50 gun man of war is just arrived & lying with the King Fisher & several Tenders off old Fort Point below Hampton what ship or from whence she came, we have not yet discovered 2 we are [&c.]
By order of the Commee.
Date: 10 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3