Volume 8
March 1777
Sunday 2d
Cape Henry So 85W Distance 38 Leag:
At 9 AM Saw a Schooner to Windwd fir'd Several Shot to bring her too. At ½ past 11 Wore Ship, set the Fore Sail & gave Chace
Fresh gales & Cloudy At 1 PM Came up wth and Brat too the Chace a Schooner from Hispaniola bound to Maryland,2 at ½ past Haul'd the Main Sail up & Brat too under the Fore Sail, at 6 More... Continue Reading
Date: 3 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
March 1777
Monday 3d
Cape Henry N77° W 35 Leagues
at 8 AM saw a Sail to the Westward, made Sail & gave chace at 10 fired 2 Six pounders to bring the Chace too, which proved to be the Schooner Edward, Saml Arnold, Master from Baltimore bound to Boston, with Bread & flour, sent a petty officer & six Men onboard her.
Date: 3 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
[March] 3rd [1777]: Our observation today agrees very well with our reckoning, so that we have not the least reason to suppose that we have yet arrived at the Gulf Stream, nor have we any other mark of approaching land than those we have observed for some time past. w e this day saw a whale, and a large shark, the latter we attempted to take, but without success, during our passage we have... Continue Reading
Date: 3 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Navy Board 28th February 1777 —
Capt. John Mercier Sir/
The Commissioners of the Navy direct that you do proceed with all posible Dispatch to Beaufort, Broad River, or Savannah river whichever the Commanding Officer of the Troops (now going to Georgia) may Direct, and you are during the time to have the Troops or Stores on board, to follow the Directions of the Commanding Officer in respect to... Continue Reading
Date: 3 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
... with pleasure assure you that by a Vessel of ours just arrd £rm France with 42,000 wt Pautler, Arms, Gunlocks & Salt we are inform'd rice is £8 10 p Ct & Indigo 49 / p lb this Curry . . .
Date: 3 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
March 1777
Sunday 2d
Monti Christy SEBE 6 or 7 Leags
at 8 AM spoke his Majestys Sloop Racehorse Do parted Campy - Tacking Occasionally
Fresh breezes & Clear Wr at 2 PM lost sight of the Racehorse gave Chace to the SE, at 5 fired a Swivel & brat her too, she prov'd the Chance Arm'd Brigg 12 Guns &c. wth Molasses from the Cape to Charles Town, took possession of the Vessel & got... Continue Reading
Date: 3 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
The Seaman named in the Margin 2 belonging to his Majesty's Ship under my command, having absented himself from duty without leave at New York the 8th of last December, and has since been apprehended there, and brought back to the Ship, where he now remains under confinement.
I therefore beg the favour that you will please, Sir, to Order a Courtmartial for his tryal. I am Sir [&c.]
Date: 3 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I have the Honour to acquaint you that in consequence of an application from the Council of the State to me to provide a proper vessell to carry some dispaches to France I Furnish'd her in a proper manner for so important an Errand, and yesterday she sail'd after being detain'd three days by Contrary winds.2 l have sent Capn John Adams Master of the paq. A man of a Vivid Sprightly make... Continue Reading
Date: 4 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
On Motion Ordered that Thomas Cushing Junr be & he hereby is appointed to repair in this first Vessel with the Duplicates forwarded to this State by the Hon'ble Congress to France & to deliver them himself to the Gentlemen they are intended for agreeable to the requisition of Congress as by their Letter dated Baltimore February 3d 1777 said Cushing to go at the Continental Expence.
On... Continue Reading
Date: 4 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
The Petition of Pierre Riphaigne humbly sheweth, that he in Nov. last imported into the State of Virginia three tons of Powder, nine six pounder, and other military Stores; your Petitioner intended to have purchasd a Vessel, in that part of the Country, returnd to the west Indies again, for the purpose of farther Importation, but not being able to purchase a Vessel there and your Petitioner being... Continue Reading
Date: 4 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
My last was of the 28th Ulto since which I receiv'd a letter from Lieutt [Ezekiel] Burroughs of the Hamden [Hampden] a Copy of which you have Inclosed, together with a Copy of the Agents and my Orders to Mr Allen Brown in Consequence of it ー this is the second time the Hamden has been fitted and mannd at a great Expence for the Sea, and I am realy afraid She is so week that it will be difficult... Continue Reading
Date: 4 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Some Time past I wrote a few incorrect and jumbled Lines inclosing a Certificate from the Secretary of the Marine boar[d] of the Time of my Entrance, and asked the Favour of your giving an Order for the Ballance of my Wages; having received no Order, I must again renew my Request, and ask of you to send it by the first Oppertunity, the doing of which will confer on me a particular Obligation.... Continue Reading
Date: 4 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Ship Trumbull.
Seamen willing to serve their country on board the Continental Ship Trumbull, Dudley Saltonstall, Esq, Commander, now lying in Connecticut River; are hereby informed that she is an excellent new Ship, upwards of Seven Hundred Tons burthen, mounting 32 Guns, and will certainly sail on a Cruize soon after the River opens, having a considerable Part of her Men already engaged. Apply... Continue Reading
Date: 4 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Resolved, That John Hazlewood Esqr be directed to give immediate and express orders in writing to the Commanders of the Fire Ships, Armed Boats and Fire Rafts, that they order the Men under their Command to be mustered every morning and Evening in order to attend to their duty; and that no Officer or Man absent himself without the Special leave of the said John Hazlewood Esqr.
This day appointed... Continue Reading
Date: 4 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Deserted on the 27th of February last from the Dickinson galley, Alexander Henderson, Esq; commander, three men, viz Wilson Jackson, of a brown complexion, about five feet seven inches high, and short hair. He had on, when he went away, a brown short jacket, blue trousers, new shoes, and plated buckles. He was born in London.
John Hutchinson, born in Pennsylvania. He had on a blue jacket, brown... Continue Reading
Date: 4 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
All persons who have any Demands against the Subscribers for Ship Timber, &c. purchased by them for the Public, are requested to bring in their Accounts immediately, that they may be adjusted and paid. David Thomson, Francis Grice, Samuel Penrose, William Pollard.1
Date: 4 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
We have the pleasure to inform the public, that the ship Reprisal, Capt. Weeks [Lambert Wickes], in which Dr. Franklin went passenger, is safe arrived in France. She took two prizes, which she also carried into a French port.
Date: 4 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
The humble Petition of Thomas Doyle, now Gunner, on board the Dolphin, to the Honourable, the Council of Safety Humbly Sheweth,
That, your Honours, some Time past, was pleased to grant me a Commission, in Captain Charles Carnan's Company of Militia, in Baltimore
County, belonging to the Soldiers Delight Batallion, and now Gunner, on board the Dolphin. Therefore, Most Honourable Gentlemen, as I... Continue Reading
Date: 4 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I am sorry to inform your Excellency that I am not by any means able to procure salt in the West Indies on the terms which I expected. The doubts that are entertained here of property in America, renders it very difficult to get any person to accept of a draft on the State. Added to that the risque of the vessel in which the salt must come, makes it impossible to procure any quantity into that... Continue Reading
Date: 4 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
That your Memorialist was born in Pool, in England, his Father being an American did about twelve years ago come over to settle in some of these States, and in the begining of the last Year your Memst endeavourd to git a Passage to come and Settle with him, and meeting with an oppertunity to go to Newfoundland took passage accordingly thinking he might from thence be able to git on some part of... Continue Reading
Date: 5 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
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