American Theatre from September 1, 1776, to October 31, 1776
Capt. Samuel Tuder one of the superintendents of the Continental frigates building at Poughkeepsie, attending, informed the Committee that the said frigates were by the Honourable the Continental Congress, ordered to be launched as soon as possible, that one if not both of them will be ready to be launched in a few days, but that they are at present destitute of anchors and cables. Capt. Tuder... Continue Reading
Date: 22 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
These are to Certify the Right Honorable The Lords Commissioners of His Majestys Treasury that John Blackburn Esquire of London hath supplied from on Board the Brigantine Burgoyne James Emerton Master for the Use of His Majestys Land Forces under my Command and delivered at this place to His Majestys Commissary General of Stores and Provissions One hundred and thirty Hogsheads containing Thirteen... Continue Reading
Date: 22 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Resolved, That the Commissioners going to the Court of France be directed to procure from that Court, at the expence of these United States, either by purchase or loan, eight line of battle ships of 74 and 64 guns, well manned, and fitted in every respect for service; That as these ships may be useful in proportion to the quickness with which they reach North America, the Commissioners be... Continue Reading
Date: 22 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I Elijah Bowen of the City of Philadelphia ー considering the Uncertainty of this transitory Life, do make and declare these Presents to contain my last Will & Testament: That is to say, I give and Bequeath unto my Loving Friend Susannah Derry of said City all my Estate & Property wheresoever it may be found being Second Lieutenant on Board the Brigt Lexington ー And all the rest of my... Continue Reading
Date: 22 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
...on the 21st arrived a Schooner with 1200 bushels of Salt (its Said) the 22d was Sent in here the Brigg Sherburn Capt Burnell with 589 barrels of oil, being a prize to Brig Handcock, Capt Newman2 &c an accot also of an Engagment on the Lakes the 11th Instant & as the Enemy were vastly Superior, our People retreated to Crown Point &c
Date: 22 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Saturday se'nnight arrived here a ship taken by the brig General Montgomery, she proves to be the ship Thetis, Capt. [Hezekiah] May, with 310 hogsheads of sugar, 90 puncheons of rum, &c. from Montego Bay for London, and belonged to a fleet of near 200 sail, who left Jamaica in August last, under convoy of two men of war. The above ship, in coming up, touched on the Cheveaux de Frize, where... Continue Reading
Date: 22 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
A petition from William Richardson,2 setting forth, that he, at the time of the alarming appearance of a hostile fleet under the direction of lord Dunmore, on the thirteenth of July last, observed a sloop drifting towards the shore within about a mile and a half of his dwelling house, and a barge from the fleet rowing towards her, which soon scuttled the said sloop; that he went off... Continue Reading
Date: 22 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Ordered that a &rrant Issue to John Newton Cook for One pound sixteen shillings for Attendance and Victualling Sick Men belonging to the Page Galley. ー Also for six shillings for attending & Victualling Sick Men belonging to the Lewis Galley.ー
Ordered that a Warrant Issue to Doctr Joseph S. Pell for Eight Pounds sixteen shillings and three pence for Necessaries & Medicines furnished... Continue Reading
Date: 22 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Octr 1776
Tuesday 22
Cape Hatteras N44:52 Wt 178 Lgs
Mod: & Cloudy at 1 PM saw a sl ahead gave chace at 6 fired 4 nine pd shot at the Chace bt her too fd her to be a sloop from No Carolina bd to St Eustatia loaded with Tar & Lumber2 took the Mastr & Men out of her & Sent some of our men on bd Tkd Ship & Made sl
Date: 22 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
October 1777
[sic 1776]
Tuesday 22d
Bermuda No 49.10 W 36 Miles,
at 6 AM Saw two Sail to the Wtward, do gave Chace at Noon brot too the Chace, being the William Schooner, Josha Bunker, Mastr from Bourdeaux to Rhode Island with Powder & Small arms out 6 weeks2 made Sail. Modt and Clear Wr Two prizes in sight
Date: 22 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Sir In addition to my Letter of the 21st I acquaint you, that I am exerting myself to the utmost in order to get the remaining Transports out of the River, the moment their Men (without whose generous Services, the expedition could not have been carried on) are returned to them, from the Lake; Pilots both here and at Sorel, being kept in readiness for that purpose. Had not the destruction of the... Continue Reading
Date: 23 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Men's Names
Stations in
which they
have entered
Time
when
Numbers
Dead, discharged,
Run, turned over
Promoted &c.—
Time
when
For what reason
John Paul Jones
Captain
May 20. 1776
1
T. from ship Alfred
Order
William Grinnell
1st Lieut
April 16
2
T. from Columbus
ditto
John Rathbun
2d "
Feby. 10
3
William Hopkins
Master
June 3d
4
take from Sick... Continue Reading
Date: 23 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
At a Court Martial held on board the Ship Alfred at Newport, in the State of Rhode Island, on the 23d Day of October, 1776, by Order of the Honourable Esek Hopkins, Esqr Commander in Chief of the American Fleet for the Trial of James Bryant, Gunner, of the Brigantine Hamden, for Mutiny
Present, Captains —
John Paul Jones
President
Lieutenants
Hoysteed Hacker
Joseph Olney
Matthew Parke... Continue Reading
Date: 23 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
You will find inclosed Copy of Letter from General ———— Gates, from Genl Arnold respecting the Transactions at the Northward, I am further advised that after the Action of the 12th, which General Arnold describes, the Fleet under his Command began to fall down the Lake but had not got far from Schuylers Island when a Northerly Gale favourable to the Enemy pushed them up with our Shattered Fleet,... Continue Reading
Date: 23 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Voted, That Mr. Levi Young be and he is hereby appointed Master of the ship Oliver Cromwell; and his Honor the Governor is desired to grant him a warrant to exercise the said office accordingly.
Voted, To order Capt. Harding with the brig Defence to sail on a cruise against the enemies of these States for about two months.
Voted, That Capt. Wm. Coit with the ship Oliver Cromwell under his command... Continue Reading
Date: 23 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Draw on the Treasurer of this State for the Sum of two Hundred Pounds in Favr of Capt Uriah Hayden of, Say Brook towards Payment for his Building the Ship Oliver Cromwell and to be in Account
Date: 23 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
We hear, that near 200 sail of the enemy's fleet, are this side of Hell-Gate, the chief of them lying near Hart-Island.
The Post who arrived from the Northward yesterday informs, That General Waterbury, with one hundred of our people who were taken prisoners, in our unsuccessful engagements on the Lake, the 11th and 12th instant, are released, on giving their paroles, and are now on their way to... Continue Reading
Date: 23 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I take the Opportunity of writing by a Victualling Transport returning to Cork in the Service of the Army, to give their Lordships the earliest Intelligence of the Arrival of the second Division of the Hessian Troops with the Diamond, Ambuscade, and Unicorn, the 18th Instant: Captain [Charles] Fielding having conducted the Transports under his Convoy with so much Prudence and Success as not to... Continue Reading
Date: 23 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
[New York] 23rd Octr ー Some of the Captains of The Navy who attended for the Regulating of the boats and vessels when they went through Hellgate with the Army the Morning of the 12th Instant, have since declared that it was a most hazardous enterprize to go through a Channel of that dangerous nature with such a fleet, and before it was daylight. What made it still more dangerous was, that an... Continue Reading
Date: 23 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Since our last to you we are informed that the Galatea a New 20 Gun Ship with the Nautilus of 16 Guns are gone to Cruize of[f] the Capes of Virginia These ships you will endeavour to fall in with and take or destroy in your way to Cape Fear. We are also informed that the Raven of 20 Guns & the Sphynx of 16 ー have quitted Georgia and South Carolina but where gone we know not. You may take with... Continue Reading
Date: 23 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
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