Volume 8
In the House of Representatives ー Whereas information has been given to this Court that Persons of suspicious Character have been into Sundry Towns in the Country to procure Provisions under the"pretext of being for the use of the Ship under the Command of Capt Manly [John Manley], in order to send to Halifax by the Cartel Vessel that is to sail from the Harbor of Salem, therefore,
Resolved, That... Continue Reading
Date: 7 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
That Your petitioner being Appointed Agent for this States Eastern district for holding Court of Captures and by Virtue thereof and being Applide to by the prize Master of the prize Brig Henery & Ann belonging to this State took Said Brig into his Care as directed by the Order of his Appointment and Libled her in the Marantine Court of Said district as the Law of this State directs After... Continue Reading
Date: 7 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Shipped By the Grace of God In Good Order and well Conditioned By the Board of War ー
In And upon the Good shooner Called the Hannah whereof is Master under God for this present voyage John Rider And now Lying in the Harbour of Plymo and By Gods Grace Bound for North Carolina To say, Two hogs heads Granada, & two hogs heads Jamaica rum, One hogs head sugar, And One hundred & twenty six "... Continue Reading
Date: 7 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
You Are hereby Impowered and Desired to Go on Board the shooner Hannah As Master, Embrace the first Good Oppertunity, Come to sail And proceed with All possible Dispatch to North Carolina, and their Dispose of your Cargo And Lay Out the proceeds In the Most Advantageous Manner in flour, wheat, [illegible] Beans Indian Corn, And Rice, Giving preference to these Articles In the Order they stand,... Continue Reading
Date: 7 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Sir you being Commander of the Schooner Spy now fit for the Sea You will Embrace the first Opportunity to Sail for Maryland or Virginia with a Bill Drawn by Commissary [Joseph] Trumbull on President [John] Hancock for one Thousand Dollars Properly Indorsed You will therefore Dispose Said Bill & Lay out the Avails in Maryland or Virginia for Flour or Bread as by Advice you shall find to be... Continue Reading
Date: 7 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Deserted this day from the Tormenter, armed boat, belonging to this state, John Dunn, by trade a house carpenter, about twenty-five years of age, five feet five inches high, fair complexion and sandy hair. He had on a white flannel shirt, and the regimentls of the Pennsylvania Fifth battalion, to which he formerly belonged. He is supposed to be gone towards Burlington, as some of his friends live... Continue Reading
Date: 7 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
March [1777]
Friday 7th
Antigua So60°W Dist 96 Leagues
8 AM out all reefs topsails set top Gallt Sails ½ past 11 AM Saw 2 Sails to the W. ward gave Chace
Fresh Gales and Cloudy ½ past 1 P M made Sir George Colliers day Sigl the Chace showd a french Ensign knowd her to be an English man of war (the Portland[)] as we were running down on her weather Quarter in order to Speak with her and was... Continue Reading
Date: 7 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Last Wednesday the Armed Sloop Satisfaction, John Stevens, Commander, sent into Falmouth Harbour a large Prize Ship, from London, bound to Constantinople: She was taken off the Rocks of Lisbon ー Her Loading is Tin, Alum, Pepper, indigo, Bail Goods and Doctor's Drugs. She is a very valuable prize.1
Whereas some Person, or Persons, do encourage the Seamen belonging to the Raleigh, to... Continue Reading
Date: 8 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Order'd The Corny deliver Mr Lambert for Brig Massachusets Eighteen boarding Spears & one side of Leather ー
Voted That Capt [George] Williams write Mr William Frost & immediately dispatch to him the Vessell from Beverly to load with Timber &c ー & send up to this Town the Medicines Woolens & ten Casks pease, store the remainder at Danvers after delivering Capt Harreden [... Continue Reading
Date: 8 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Ship Garlands Inventory Viz
now the Ship Gruel ー
Ship about 280 Tuns
All the Mast & Yards She has
Stan[di]ng & Runing riging
all she has
three
Anchors all Large
one
Long Boat
Both good
yawl
one
Cable about 90 fm
one
one
Ditto about 160 fm
three
Compasses
one
Ditto about 50 fm
Sounding Lead & Line
one
Hawser about 70 fm
two... Continue Reading
Date: 8 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
My Last was of the 4th instant in which I acquainted you of the misfortune of the Hamden's Springing a Leak ー She is now at Swansey heaving down in Order to find out the Leak ー Inclosed you have a Copy of my Orders to Captn [John Paul] Jones, Similar Ones I have given Captn Hacker you also have a Copy of my Letter to Mr Bradford which was in Consequence of your Orders in Respect to Satisfying the... Continue Reading
Date: 8 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
The memorial of William Malcolm on behalf of himself & the other owners of the Brigantine called the Janet, Humbly Sheweth,
That your memorialist and the other owners of the Brigantine sent her up the Hudson River to prevent her falling in to the hands of the Enemy. That by order of the Convention she together with her appurtenances was taken and sunk in the line of obstructions opposite Fort... Continue Reading
Date: 8 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
As the sloop Independence is now ready to sail and we find it impossible to get a Surgeon for her, I must request the Favour that the Bearer hereof Mr. Wm. Russell may have a discharge from your service to act in that capacity on board her. If this can be done with propriety it will serve the public and oblige Gentlemen Your [&c.] 2
Date: 8 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Josep[h] Marsh has delivered in the Bill of Sale for the Sloop he purchased yesterday, called the Liberty, and George Virt is appointed to the Command of her.
Date: 8 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Deserted from the armed boats belonging to this state, the three following persons, viz. Thomas Brown, mariner, a likely well made fellow, and black curly hair. He had on, when he went away, a sailor's brown jacket, white worsted stockings, round hat. Is very talkative, and of a smiling countenance.
Francis Galaher, born in Ireland, about five feet six inches high, and did belong to the First... Continue Reading
Date: 8 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
March 1777
Saturday 8th
Cape Henry No67°W 36 Leagues
at 8 AM departed this life Rich'd Tucker Marine, saw a Sail to the Eastward, made Sail & gave chace at 11 AM brought too the Chace which proved to be the Schooner Judith Mark Burnam Master, from Virginia, bound to Cape Ann, with flour sent a petty officer & 6 Men on board her, & sent her to [New] York, the Phoenix in chace after... Continue Reading
Date: 8 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
March 1777
Saturday 8th
Cape Henry No62W Distance 38 Leag
at 2 AM more Modt made Sail, at 6 saw a Sail to the Nowd Out Reefs set the Jibb and Staysails & gave Chace at 8 saw the Emerald in Chace of a Schooner at 9 Fir'd a Gun & made the Signal to the Emerald. ー at ½ past 9 Bore away & gave Chace to a Sloop to the NWd ー
Fresh Breezes and clear Wr Fir'd several Shot at the Chace at... Continue Reading
Date: 8 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
[8th March, 1777] At nine o'clock this morning we saw a brig at a considerable distance from us, we wished to approach her but it being calm that was impossible. At twelve o'clock the fog cleared away, and our Captain had an observation which came within a few miles of ours last night latitude being 36°34'; between twelve and one, the French officer shot a Penguin, we hoisted out our yawl and... Continue Reading
Date: 8 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
When we left New York, we cruized at the Delaware for three weeks, and had a passage of three weeks more to this place, during which time we took some prizes. Since the Roebuck has been on the American station, she has taken upwards of 100 sail; but, from the greater number to share in the prize-money, from the trivial value of the cargoes, and from many being retaken, I will not have above 30 l... Continue Reading
Date: 8 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
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