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Mr. [Samuel] Adams & myself just Arived here & find no intellegance from you & no Guard, we just hear an Express has just past thro this Place to you from New York informing that Administration is bent upon pushing matters And that Four Regements are expected there; How are we to proceed? Where are our Brethren? Surely we ought to be supported I had rather be with you, & at...
Date: 24 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress, to Major General Philip Schuyler, June 28, 1775
By direction of this Congress I transmit you several resolutions which passed Yesterday ー the Importance of which you will readily see and the necessity of your immediate Attention to the execution of them ー The Alteration of the Sentiments of the Congress since your departure, relative to making an impression into Canada was occasioned by a letter they received from the Committee of Albany, a...
Date: 28 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I duly received your letter of 29th and 30th ult (that referred to by you of 28th not yet come to hand) and immediately laid them before the Congress, in Consequence of which I have their directions to transmit you their resolution ー whereby you will observe that Genl [David] Wooster is ordered with the Troops under his command to remain at New York and that you raise as many of the Green...
Date: 1 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Particulars of the Engagement in the River below this City, tho at present it is over, are so variously reported, that it is impossible to give any consistent Representation of it. It is certain however that the King's Ships have quitted their Stations, and have fallen down the River as low as Reedy Island. When the Gondolas began the Attck, they were almost as high up as Chester.
Date: 10 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
In Committee of Safety.
Philad'a 11th May, 1776.
Thomas Slater, Master, &John Peckham, Mate of the Brig't Betsy, who came from Virginia with said Vessel to the Roebuck Man-of-war, and taken by Capt. Charles Alexander, Commander of the Continental Schooner Wasp, near New Castle, was by order of the Board Committed to Gaol there, to be kept in safe custody 'till the further orders of this...
Date: 11 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
By the inclosed List, comprehending the Names of the Captains withtheir respective Vessels and the Number of Guns they mount, you will see we are taking every Step in our Power towards finishing the Business. Ihope the Appointments will be agreeable. We have [done] every Thing wecould to give Satisfaction.
Colonies
Names of Ships
Captains
Guns
New Hampshire
Raleigh
Thos. Thompson
32...
Date: 12 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I am directed by Congress to inform you, that the offer which the owners made of the hard Money taken on Board their Prizes is accepted ー and that you will please to apply to the Men for the Moiety belonging to them. The public Service calls for the Money as soon as it can be had.
Should the Men consent to let Congress have their Share, I will immediately give Draughts on the Treasury for the...
Date: 13 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Notwithstanding the repeated Efforts and Solicitations of the Marine Board to put the Continental Ships upon a respectable Footing, and to have them employed in the Service for which they were originally designed, they are constrained to say, that their Efforts & Solicitations have been frustrated & neglected in a manner unaccountable to them; and in Support of their own Reputation they...
Date: 14 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
The present inactive State of the Navy of the United Colonies, the many Complaints exhibited to the marine Board ag[ain]st some of the Officers of the Ships, and the daily Applications of both Officers & Men who have left the fleet in Consequence of very severe Usage, have constrained the Marine Board to make a Representation of our Naval Concerns, to the Congress, which require a speedy...
Date: 14 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
The establishing a War Office is a new and great Event in the History of America, and will doubtless be attended with essential Advantages when properly conducted & inspected. I hope the Committee will be ready, in a few Days to enter upon the Execution of their Duty. You will see the Outlines of this Office in the enclosed Resolves. Some further Regulations, it is more than probable, will be...
Date: 14 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I shall write you fully by the next Post, and also to Capt. [John) Bradford. I shall send all the Warrants to your Sea officers, etc. I want the Recommendations for the Marine Officers, etc. Next Monday Evening the Marine Board will perfect the most of the matters relative to the Ships, when you shall have the necessary Directions I shall send you an order for what Provisions you may want to be...
Date: 16 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I have wrote to Governor Cooke to engage immediately, and send forward as fast as possible, fifty ship Carpenters to General Schuyler for the Purpose of building Vessels on the Lakes. Fifty have already gone from hence on that business...
Date: 6 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
As I purpose writing You fully on the Subject of Marine Affairs some Time in the Course of next Week, I shall only enclose at present a Resolve of Congress, directing you to send the Arms taken out of the Scotch Transports, to Genl Washington at New York:2 and indeed, this ss all I have Time to do now, being in great Haste Sir [&c.]
Date: 6 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Altho' it is not possible to forsee the consequence of human actions, yet it is neverthe[le]ss a duty we owe ourselves, and Posterity in all our public counsels, to decide in the best manner we are able, and to trust the event to that being, who controls both causes and events so as to bring about his own determination ー Impressed with this sentiment, and at the same time fully convinced that our...
Date: 8 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
The enclosed Letter from Mr Ephraim Anderson 2 I am directed to transmit by order of Congress. As Mr Anderson appears to be an ingenious Man and proposes to destroy the British Fleet at New York, the Congress are willing to give him an opportunity of trying the Experiment, & have therefore thought proper to refer him to you.
The Event only can shew whether his Scheme is visionary,...
Date: 10 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Inclos'd you have a Resolution of Congress for the Supply of Provisions to the Frigates in the Eastern Departmt out of the Stock of Proviss in that Quarter, & am to Request you will by the next Post issue your orders to your Deputy there to furnish such Quantities as shall be applied for by Mr [Thomas] Cushing & others who have the Care of the Ships ー
I have paid all your Bills that have...
Date: 27 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
The Business of my Department increases so much that I cannot think of Continuing to Act in the Marine Committee, but before I quit it I should wish to close my Cash Accounts and to leave every thing as clear as possible, I must therefore desire you will immediately forward me your Account of the Money Receiv'd, and the Expenditure...You will order the two Frigates to be got ready for the Sea, I...
Date: 30 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
In Congress.
The delegates of the United colonies of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of New-Castle, Kent & Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, to
Stephen Cleveland Esquire.
We resposing especial trust and confidence in your patriotism, valor conduct & fidelity; Do...
Date: 8 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Sir Your letters of the 7 with the papers enclosed are received and now under consideration of Congress.
Enclosed I send you a resolution passed respecting lieutenant [James] Josiah. He was first lieutenant of captain Nicholas Biddle & was taken in a ship capt Biddle had made prize of, by the Cerberus Frigate
By a letter which he found means to convey, he informs that "he is used worse than...
Date: 8 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Sir, I do myself the Honour to enclose you sundry Resolves, by which you will perceive that Congress, having taken your Letter of the 2d Inst into Consideration, came to a Resolution, in a Committee of the whole House, that no Damage should be done to the City of New York.2
Date: 3 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6