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Gentn We send Mr [Stephen] Steward to Philadelphia to take a View of the Gondolas built at that city, we expect to contract with him for building most of those, that are ordered to be built for our province ー the difference of tide in our Bay from that in Delaware will, we apprehend, necessarily occasion some alteration in the manner of building and rigging our Gondolas from those of Pennsylvania...
Date: 1 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
...the Governor is not yet gone; we expect he will leave the province in a few days, what Interruption the Virginians will or can give him in his passage down the Bay time will discover....
Should the Congress think proper to request us to March our Militia in the manner T.S. hath intimated, we must be under the disagreeable Necessity of calling the Convention, tis not with us to say they shall...
Date: 8 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Gentln, The Convention have ordered that the sum of 10,000. £ be appropriated to fortify the City of Annapolis, and place obstructions in the River Severn, but as we have not, nor know of, an Engineer properly qualified to carry on the works, and your station may perhaps afford you an op portunity of assisting us with one; we beg you will make enquiry for and recommend to us some Person of...
Date: 7 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Dunmores Fleet has seperated; The Fowey and the Otter with a Number of Vessells having the Tory Families on board remain in the Mouth of Saint Marys River; the Roebuck and Six or Seven other Vessells have moved up the River Potowmack, as high as quantico in Virginia, where they stopt to take in Water. ー there are some flying reports of their having Landed at Mr William Brents and burnt his Houses...
Date: 26 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Gentn We have directed Captn Nicholson, who goes to Phila on business of his own, to endeavour to procure Some Salted Provisions, for the use of the Navy, should any difficulties attend the execution of his orders, we must request you'll endeavour to remove them, & at the same time to advance him Money to pay for what he May engage We are [&c.]
Date: 29 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Since our last we have recd two letters from Major [Thomas] Price, Copies of which are inclosed, from them you will learn the situation of the Enemy below, our pilot boat came up last night & informs they are not yet gone off, several vessels are dismasted, and on shore at the point of St. George's island with intention to burn them; Middleton thinks they are going off down the Bay, and we...
Date: 2 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Gentn We have been informed Lieutt Steuart, of Captn [John Allen] Thomas's Company has lately accepted a Commission from Congress in the marine service2 ー if the fact is so, it must superceed the commission he holds under us, & upon a presumption of the truth of it, we have filled up the vacancy occasioned by the removal & promoted the other officers, & inclose the...
Date: 7 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Gentn We have the pleasure to inform you that the enemy's fleet left Potowmack River on Friday last, and is gone off down the Bay; they had collected a number of small vessels, which they had dismasted, and left on the point of St George's Island, with intention to set fire to them, but a high Tide floated them off, and they were driven on Shore near our Guard, who have taken possession of them,...
Date: 9 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
This accompanies our Letter to Congress, complaining of Capt Nicholson's Conduct, we have inclosed you Copies of that as well as of a Letter we wrote to and Answer we received from him. ー We had, as we stated to Capt Nicholson, received Information of his having pressed a Number of Men, which he avows, and that many People bound to Baltimore by Water hearing of it, turned back, and that even some...
Date: 26 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
... on the arrival of the Liverpool, man-of-war, with a store-ship, we thought it proper to communicate that intelligence to your Committee of Safety, which we did by express, on Saturday last [December 23], and which we hope has reached you ere now. The disgraceful circumstance, to the Colony, of seizing the Printer's materials and servants, in Norfolk; the captivating our friends at Kemp's...
Date: 29 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Gentn By a Resolution of the Convention, the City of Annapolis and the Town of Baltimore, are to be for[tified] if it be practicable; as we are much at a Loss for Cannon, and as we hear they have more at New-York and Philadelphia than they have Occasion for; we imagine they may be willing to spare some of them. We must therefore request you will be pleased to enquire of the Gentlemen of those...
Date: 20 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Gentn The inclosed Memorandum was intended to be delivered personally to Mr [Samuel] Chase whilst in Baltimore Town, but his going sooner than we expected, prevented it's being done. ー we should be obliged to you to advert to the Contents thereof, as if addressed to all the Deputies ー & be pleased to give us an Answer, as soon as you can with Convenience to yourselves ー
We find that Blankets...
Date: 1 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
... We have also received a Letter from Messrs [William] Paca & [Robert] Alexander of the 2d of this Month, and are sorry to find we are likely to be disappointed in our Prospect of geting Cannon from New-York or Philadelphia; as they were immediately wanted for carrying into Execution the Resolution of the Convention for fortifying the City of Annapolis and Baltimore Town, and as we are not...
Date: 8 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3