Volume 8
You being Master of the Schooner James now ready to sail, your Orders are to proceed direct for the Northern County's in North Carolina, with the money you have which is Three hundred pounds purchase a full load of Wheat & Flour if to be had, if not, com pleat your loading with Corn, Rye & Beans & come home ー
If you have more Money than is sufficient to Load your Vessell with the... Continue Reading
Date: 5 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
You are hereby directed to repair on board the Ship Providence, now lying in this river on the 15th instant ー to give in your Information to a Court Martial, concerning Capt. John P Jones's two last Cruizes and Since he came in ー
Date: 5 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Sir We receiv'd yours of yesterday p Mr Hopkins, and in answer thereto can only say that you must heave the Brigs 2 Keal out, thoroughly examine and Survey her, and you must provide some House or place where the Officers and People may be kept together while that is doing ー If the Leak can be Stopp'd and you think She can be fitted for the Sea, would have you do it with all the... Continue Reading
Date: 5 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Ordered that the keeper of the Public Magazine deliver unto Capt Muter four hundred Pounds Gunpowder for the use of the Hero Galley. ー
Capt George Muter of the Hero Galley received Orders to repair with his Vessel to Portsmouth and there have her Cleaned; from thence to Proceed with his Galley to Hampton and inform the Board as soon as he arrives. ー
Merriman Payne is recommended to his Excellency... Continue Reading
Date: 5 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
March 1777
Wednesday 5th
Cape Henry S76°W 20 Leagues
at 1 AM handed the Topsails, at 8 AM saw a Sail in the NW Quarter made Sail & gave chace, fired One 12 pounder to bring the Chace too & punished Jams Langley Marine with 12 Lashes for uncleaness, ½ past 11 brought the Chace too which proved to be the Sloop Hannah, Lot price Master from plymouth bound to Virginia (in Ballast) at Noon... Continue Reading
Date: 5 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
March [l777]
Wednesday 5th
Barbuda bore SWbS½W 48 Leagues
At 6 AM Saw a Sail in the SE Qr made Sail in Chace finding We did not come up with the Chace haul'd our Wind and gave Chace to a Schooner to the Eastward
Do [Fresh breezes and fair Wear] Fired 5 Guns Shotted at the Chace ½ past PM she brought too hoisted out a Boat and spoke her from Surinam bound to Ipswich in No America at 5 in boats... Continue Reading
Date: 5 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
March 1777
Wednesday 5th
[Moored in English Harbor, Antigua]
AM. a Signal for a Court Martial was made on board the Flora, When Willm Adams Nicholas Warren & Jas Walker were try'd for Desertion belonging to the Roebuck 2
Modt & fair, P.M. Employ'd in Stowing the Hold
Date: 5 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Your favr by Capt Obrian Ueremiah O'Brien] Was dld me Yesterday. I saw Mr [Caleb] Cushing on the Occasion, and he tells me he knows the Council wont do any thing for him, they are glad they've got rid of him, As I know it will Gratify you Sir if he is Commissioned for the Lady Washington, he may be of Service by Cruising to the Eastward ー 2 the Brig Betsy has been detained intirely... Continue Reading
Date: 6 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I have a long time waited to receive a[n] answer to my Letter respecting the purchase of the Millish, she is to be sold Wednesday Se'night have wrote to Mr [Leonard] Jarvis to purchase her for account of the Contininte, as I have bot only two of the four order'd by the Secred Comitte, I have desir'd him also to purchase the Brig Active, she is about one hundred & thirty Tons, if she goes... Continue Reading
Date: 6 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
There is now Sail'd Eleven Vessles that I have inteligence of & believe probably four or five more, that was near ready when I came from the Eastward, five or six more may soon be got ready if the weather permits and the Sailors are not discouraged by the Accts of a number of British Men of War, being in Chespeak Bay & of[f] the Capes, have been much hindred in getting them away by the... Continue Reading
Date: 6 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Captain [William] Brown, in the privateer Boston, of this Port, has taken and sent into North Carolina, a Ship and Schooner, from Guinea, with Negroes, bound to the West-Indies; many of the poor Slaves perished soon after their Arrival. We learn, that Captain Brown, has also taken a large 3 Deck Ship, laden with Rum and Sugar, from the West-Indies, bound to London; it is said the Ship is cast... Continue Reading
Date: 6 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Philip Buck First Lieutenant of the Congress Gondalo presented a Petition for leave to resign which, being duly considered, the Prayer of His Petition could not in the opinion of this Board be granted.
An order on William Webb in favor of John Flintham for 20 Mast Hoops for the Schooner Delaware, £2 .. 0 ..0.
Date: 6 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
the Letter you wrote me the 17th of the Last Month has been delivered to me and I. am Most oblige to you and the others Members of the Board for the interest in My health. I Performed my Journey not without Fatigue. but I am well & wish you same.
I am happy, sir, hearing the attention of the Board of War in dispatching Vessels for the Remittances in £ranee, and I am sorry, as you, the Men of... Continue Reading
Date: 6 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
On the Recommendation of the Navy Board: Ordered that a commission issue to second Lieutenant Merriman Payne of the Safe Guard Galley.
Whereas permission was given to Andrew Johnson junior, and others, who were adjudged to come under the statute staple of the 27th of Edward the third Chapter 17th to purchase the ship Albion then lying at South Quay in Nansemond county wherein they might convey... Continue Reading
Date: 6 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
The inclosed is extracted from a very sensible Memoir sent to Congress by a French Artist and which may avail us greatly in the construction of our Provincial Frigates. It is intended for the use of our Navy board to whom I should have written if the Express were not waiting for my dispatches 2 . . .
By a letter from our Agent in Martinique 7th January I consider the war between Spain... Continue Reading
Date: 6 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
March 1777
Wednesdy 5th
Do [Monti Christy] SEBE 4 Leags
at 6 AM chac'd to the SE, at 9 sent the Pinnace in chace, fired 18 Guns to bring her too ー
First & Lattr Parts modt & fair Wr Middle fresh and Squally wth Rain, ½ past Noon our Boat boarded the Chace, & at 2 Join'd us found her the Adventure Sloop from America to the Cape wth Rice & Indigo ー took possession, & at 6 P... Continue Reading
Date: 6 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Ship Raleigh Dr to sundry Accots
To John Langdon Esqr
for
9 yds Old Canvas
ft plank
1
Bbl pitch
6
Bbs Turpentine
3
Bbs Tar
4
Empty Tarr Bbs
use of large kettle
Date: 7 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Mr [Joseph] Greenleaf and Mr [Nathaniel] Appleton being chosen Agents by a number of the men Lately belonging to the Alfred, and being possess'd of Certificates, they have Advancd sums of money to the Severall persons, a list of whose names I now inclose, and those Gentlemen are at the Expence of sending this Express only for the purpose of informing you, least you should advance them money; they... Continue Reading
Date: 7 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
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