American Theatre from September 1, 1776, to October 31, 1776
We expect the Continental frigates Hancock, Boston and Raleigh under your respective commands, are either now ready for the Sea, or shortly will be so. You are hereby directed to act in concert and Cruize together, for the following purposes, and on the following Stations. Your first object must be to inform yourselves in the best manner possible, if any of the British men of war are Cruizing in... Continue Reading
Date: 23 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
We have ordered Commodore Hopkins immediately to proceed to Cape Fear in the state of North Carolina with the following Vessells under his command viz.
The Alfred of
30 Guns
Columbus
28 do
Cabot
16 do
Hampden
16. do
Providence.
10 do
Continental
Frigates
Warren
32 do
if these two last
Providence
28 do
mentiond can be made ready in... Continue Reading
Date: 23 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
We lately wrote you very fully by Mr Wm Hodge junr who went passinger in the Sloop Independance to Martinico from whence he wou'd proceed to France & deliver you sundry dispatches from this Committee, amongst the rest was the plan of a Treaty with the Court of France & In-structions of Congress relative thereto & this day we have enclosed you Instructions relative to Treaties with... Continue Reading
Date: 23 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The Inclosed letter was wrote and Signed before we had an opporty to transmit it and having now So good a conveyance as the Brigt Lexington we transmit the Same to you as an official Letter from the Committee of Secret Correspondence which you'l observe is distinct from the Secret Committee with whom you also correspond, by this letter you'l find we expect Some Arms, ammunition money or Cloathing... Continue Reading
Date: 23 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
We have already wrote you two letters of this date by different Conveyances, the present we send by the Andrew Doria, Isaiah Robinson Esqr Commander for St Eustatia from whence it will be sent to Wm Bingham Esqr at Martinico and by him be transmitted to you in a French Bottom. You will find enclosed Two Resolves of Congress passed yesterday, from one of them you will learn that Thomas Jefferson... Continue Reading
Date: 23 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
By this conveyance we transmit to Silas Deane, Esq. a resolve of the Honble the Continental Congress of Delegates from the Thirteen United States of America; whereby you are appointed one of their Commissioners for negotiating a treaty of Alliance, Amity, and Commerce with the Court of France, and also for negotiating Treaties with other nations agreeable to certain plans and instructions of... Continue Reading
Date: 23 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Intelligence received in Congress, October 21st, from the Middle and Northern Departments.
That on the 11th instant, at 8 o'clock in the morning, the enemy's fleet on Lake Champlain, consisting of one ship mounting 16 guns, one snow mounting the same number, one schooner of 14 guns, two of twelve, two sloops, a bomb ketch, and a large vessel, (her force unknown) with fifteen or twenty flat... Continue Reading
Date: 23 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Gentlemen, Capt Kelty [John Kilty] applied to us yesterday for Cordage to fit out the ninety two but we have met with such difficulty in procuring Hemp to go on with the engagements we are already under, that we cannot furnish Him, unless you think proper to take off so much as he may want, from the quantity we are to furnish for the Gondolas &c, and then we apprehend it will be impossible to... Continue Reading
Date: 23 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
On motion of Mr. [Thomas] Johnson, Resolved, That the Council of Safety be empowered to give a bounty of twenty dollars to each able seaman, and ten dollars to each landsman, who shall inlist to serve in the marine service of this state during the war, or until discharged by the supreme authority of this state; and that the Council of Safety may also order any vessel now fitting, or which shall... Continue Reading
Date: 23 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Present Mr [Champion] Travis ー
Ordered that the keeper of the Public Magazine deliver unto Capt. John Calvert One hundred & fifty pounds of Gunpowder for the use of the Norfolk Revenge Galley.
Ordered that the keeper of the Public Store deliver unto Capt John Calvert five hundred Pump Nails, One hundred four penny Nails, two Lanthorns, One Speaking Trumpett, thirty Yards of thin Canvas &... Continue Reading
Date: 23 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
You are desir'd to send down immediately the amount of the [Cables] furnish'd each Vessel as we are in want of it to lay before Convention ー You are also desir'd to send down as soon as possible to James Town an eight Inch Cable, twenty five fathoms long, for the use of the Revenge Galley ー Captain Calvert. I am by order of the Naval Board Your h'b'le Servant
Date: 23 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Whereas by Resolve of this Board of the thirtieth of September last Joshua Hampstead Esquire commander of the Armed Brig Pennsylvania Farmer was directed to proceed to Sea and Cruize for the Term of one Month within eighty Leagues of the American Shore, and whereas the time and distance prescribed in the aforesaid Resolve may in a measure frustrate the Intentions of the said Voyage Resolved That... Continue Reading
Date: 23 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
In consequence of Information that several vessels are expected to arrive in the different Ports of New England with Supplies for His Majestys Rebellious Subjects; You are therefore hereby required and directed to proceed immediately to Sea with His Majesty's Ship under your Command, and Cruize between Cape Cod and Monhagen in New England, using your utmost Endeavors to prevent their receiving... Continue Reading
Date: 24 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
...a few prizes are daily dropping in. it is reported that a ship with forty light Horse on Board has been taken in the Channel of England by a Salem Privateer after an Obstinate Engagement, in which the privateer lost seventeen men. we are about moveing to Boston haveing taken the Room belonging to the County....
Our Naval Operations are Counteracted and discouraged by many sagacious devises of... Continue Reading
Date: 24 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
We the Subscribers do Acknoledge to have Shipt ourselves, on Board the Schooner Run Fast [Nehemiah] Somes Master, to Proceed in Said Schooner from Boston to Virginia & Maryland, & back again: to do our duty on Board & on Shore during said Voyage, For such monthly wages & Priviledge & is sett Against our Names, to have One months pay before sailing the Remainder to be paid at... Continue Reading
Date: 24 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
We have Appointed you master of our Schooner Run Fast, & having all things ready our Orders Areー
You Proceed to Yocomoko,2 Where youl find Letters for you from Capt Saml Leighton to whome you are Consignd youl follow his Orders, where you are to Proceed from thence, Diliver your Cargoe to him & Receive such a Cargoe as he Inclines to ship on board you & make all prudent... Continue Reading
Date: 24 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Yesterday Capt. Daniel Harthorne arrived at Salem from a Cruize. On his Passage he met with an armed Packet, which he attacked. In the Engagement (which lasted two Hours) he lost three Men killed, and nine or ten wounded, himself slightly. Since which, he has taken and sent into Cape-Ann, a Prize Snow, with Oats, &c.1
The Privateer commanded by Capt. [William] Carleton,2... Continue Reading
Date: 24 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
State of Massachusetts-Bay
Middle District, ss.
To all whom it may concern.
Notice is hereby given, That Libels are filed before me, against the following Vessels, their cargoes and appurtenances; viz. ー in behalf of Capt. Elijah Freeman Payne and his company, of the armed Schooner called the Eagle, against the Ship Venus, burthen about 160 Tons, George Colas, late Master; against the... Continue Reading
Date: 24 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
State of Massachusetts-Bay,
Southern District, ss.
To all whom it may concern.
Notice is hereby given, That the Maritime Court for the Southern District will be held at Plimouth in the county of Plimouth, on Tuesday the 12th day of November, A. D. 1776, at the Hour of Ten in the Forenoon, to try the justice of the following Captures, viz; ー Of the Schooner called the Lively, of about 40... Continue Reading
Date: 24 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Upon the Tryal of Samuel Erlom and Thomas Donehoe for Mutiny on-board the Ship Royal Exchange, it appeared that the Mutiny was encouraged or put on foot by the former Captn of her; in which he Employ'd his Steward to promise them twenty Guineas a Man, and half the Ship and Cargo when they should arrive in England ー and on this Intelligence I think it will be right for you, at least to stop his... Continue Reading
Date: 24 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
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