Volume 8
Agreeable to the orders of your Excellency and the Council, I am now heaving down and preparing the Privateer Genl Washington to take her station for the defence of this River, but am much afraid (should even Ball be procured in a short time) She will be delayed much longer than I could wish for want of Hands ー as from this Port being so long blocked up by the King of England's Ships, most of the... Continue Reading
Date: 1 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Saterday the 1 Day of March [1777] this morning Clear and at 6 am See a Sail All hands Was Call to make Sail ー We Sot our mainsail and Square Sail and Studdind Sa[i]l and Jibb and fliing Jibb and Top Sail and Water Sail and Wringtail our Cour[s]e SW and the Wind to the Northerd a Smart Brease a Going 6 or 7 knots Sot our Top gallant W[hich] Drawd hur Very fast and at 1 P m See hur of or the Decks... Continue Reading
Date: 1 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I have the Honour to acquaint You that agreeable to Your Orders I proceeded with the Transports under my Command to the Island of Montserrat, where the Fleet arrived on the 22d Instant [sic] ー light and Contrary Winds, together with inattention (or the very bad Sailing of the Diamond and two of the Briggs) prevented our doing it sooner ー the Hessians I found on my arrival had quitted Montserrat... Continue Reading
Date: 1 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
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Date: 1 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
March 2nd [1777]: This morning the wind strong at West, several small birds of different species came on board the vessel, ー from this circumstance we flatter ourselves we cannot be very far from land, two of the birds appeared to be snow birds, and two of them not very unlike a partridge in shape and colour, but somewhat brighter, much smaller, their legs being long, slender and yellow. From... Continue Reading
Date: 2 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Mr Benjamin Nason of this Town has been informed that the Honble Board of War wants a Number of White pine Masts and he having Timber Suitable therefor would be glad to get any Number from fifty to Seventy of Twenty Six Inches and under that bigness wth the usual Number of Bow Sprits and Yards — if you are not already supplied I beg leave to recommend him as a Person whose Contract may be relied... Continue Reading
Date: 3 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I have a Ship of thre Hundred & fifty Tons, & a Brigt of two Hundred& Eighty, at Portsmouth, nearly Loaded ー I shall be willing to Charter them to the state if the terms will sute me ー they have as Cargo upwards of five Hundred Thousands of Boards, Hopes & Staves-about One Hundred Cask of Herren & some Shingles ー I am Content you should have the whole paying me the first Cost... Continue Reading
Date: 3 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I received your letter of the 1st Instant informing me that the Board of War would take all the Woollen Goods Pease and Medicines taken on board the Prize Ship Royal Charlotte, and desiring I w ould send them up by the first opportunity; but I think it will be more regular for some person to be here in behalf of the Board to receive the Goods take an Accot of the quantity and see to the Shiping... Continue Reading
Date: 3 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Ordered that Joseph Ross Master of the Cartel Vessel Hawke now lying in the Harbour of Salem & Andrew Jones a passenger in the same both of whom are now in this Town be forthwith directed to proceed for Salem and to go and keep constantly on board said Vessel while she shall remain within this State ー And the Sheriff of this County is hereby ordered to convey the said Ross and Jones onboard... Continue Reading
Date: 3 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
The Ship General Lincoln of which you are Master, being now ready to sail, your Orders are to proceed for Charlestown South Carolina, deliver your Cargo to Mr Stephen Bruce to whom you are consigned, receive on Board your Ship a Load of Rice and such other Articles as Mr Bruce may direct ー
When you are ready to sail from South Carolina you are to proceed direct for Nantes in the Kingdom of France... Continue Reading
Date: 3 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
You being master of the Brig Betsy wch is in all respects Equip'd for the Sea its my orders you embrace the first fair wind and Sail for Baltimore in Maryland where on your Arrival you are to Apply to the honble John Hancock Esqr presedent of the Congress Who will give you directions for your future proceedings
I hope you will be very Carefull to shun every Vessell You may see and I would have... Continue Reading
Date: 3 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Friday last arrived at a safe port, a prize brig 1 with 900 hogsheads of salt, taken by the privateer sloop Satisfaction, Captain [John] Stevens, of this port, who was in chase of a sail when this prize left them. ー Since which we learn the above Prize is safely moor'd.
By a Person from Plymouth, we learn, That a Vessel arrived there on Friday last from Maryland, the Master of which we hear,... Continue Reading
Date: 3 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
This goes p Capt Amos Rider of the Schooner Brittania Chartered on your Acct for the Southern States. This Schooner I should have sent directly to Messrs Purveyance at Baltimore had I not been prevented by the Intelligence recd here by A Schooner from thence in a short passage. that Intelligence I gave you by Doct Roberts. it is Since Confirmed by a Vessel from Philadelphia. I am fully Convinced... Continue Reading
Date: 3 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Upon the request of the Marine Comtee we have affixed Norwich as the place of Building a 36 Gun Frigate, and Chatham as the place of Building a 28 Gun Frigate in this State, agreable to a Resolve of Congress of the 23d Janry and a request of the Marine Comtee of the 28th Janry, and have appointed upon like request Capt Joshua Huntington to superintend Building the Frigate at Norwich, and Capt... Continue Reading
Date: 3 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
On the Desire of Capt Lester I write you at this time In Regard to Long pine Timber for the Frigate Under Your Direction.2 My advice is that there Should be no time Lost in Sending high up on Connecticut River and procuring the Masts Yards and Long pine timber for plank which if not got Down the River in the Springtime Cannot be got at any Other Season. Also that Mr Jonathan Bush is... Continue Reading
Date: 3 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Since our last, the Brune Frigate, Captain [James] Ferguson, arrived from Chesapeak Bay with five Prizes. One of them is a fine new Ship laden with above 500 Hogsheads of Tobacco, from Baltimore, on the Congress's Account as usual, and valued at near £20,000 Sterling. She had been but a few Hours from the Harbor, and was taken by the Preston, Commodore Hotham, in Company with the Brune.1... Continue Reading
Date: 3 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
A Brig came in from Santa Cruz, which gave Account, that many American Privateers were cruizing in the West Indies. . . . Much Ice in the North River.
Date: 3 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Robert Towers directed to deliver to Capt. [Isaac] Roach of the Delaware Galley Sundry Grape Shot.
Griffith Jones being well recommended to this Board he is appointed to the Command of the Fire Ship Strumbello [Strombolo].
An order drawn on William Webb 2 in favor Elijah Dow for his Account of Iron Work against the Chatham Gondalo for £29 10 2½,
Date: 3 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
The humble Petition of Richard Smith to the Honourable the Council of Safety for Leave, Humbly sheweth, That your Petitioner, hath been solicitted for to enter on Board the Conquorer, which now lies here in the Harbour; And as I have Most honourable Gentlemen, a Father on Board, said Boat, that's first Lieutenant, the Captain offers me a Serjeant's Birth in the Marines, and, as it is not going... Continue Reading
Date: 3 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Capt Charles Thomas this day received Orders for having such Cordage prepared as soon as Possible for the four eighty one feet Gallies that are now Building for the use of this Commonwealth together with proper Cables and Towlines for the same ー Also Two hundred and twenty Fathom of Cable laid Rope three and a half Inches for the flat Bottom Boats which are Building for the Transportation of... Continue Reading
Date: 3 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
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