Volume 3
My Lord I wrote you a few days since inclosing therewith several Memorials from the Inhabitants of Cumberland, from which it will appear to your Lordship, the Disposition of the Inhabitants, and how little dependence can be relied on from thence, for the Security and defence of this Province, which Disposition is become more General, and Spreading over all the Settlements, that are principally... Continue Reading
Date: 15 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Sir, Yesterday a Corporal belonging to the 65th Regiment arrived here express from Cumberland and brought an Account addressed to Brigadier General [Eyre] Massey from Lieutenant Barron of the King's Regiment, lately wounded at Boston; and Obtained General [William] Howe's leave to pass the Winter with his Father who lives at that place.
He says that Cumberland and its Neighbourhood have formed... Continue Reading
Date: 15 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
We arrived here after a Passage of eleven Weeks from Plymouth, and almost one continued Storm; the Ship much shattered, and most of the Men down in the Scurvey. However, we shall soon be fit for Sea again; all our People are recovered, which we attribute to the Spruce Beer, the common Drink on board the Men of War here, and at Boston; for though they have Plenty of good Rum or French Brandy on... Continue Reading
Date: 15 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
On the Muster-Roll of Capt. Jeremiah Obryan [O'Brien].
Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the Public Treasury of this Colony, to Capt. Jeremiah Obryan, his Officers and Seamen under his Command, or their Order, the several Sums set against their respective Names, in the first Muster-Roll, amounting in the Whole to the Sum of Seven Hundred and Sixty three Pounds, six Shillings and a... Continue Reading
Date: 15 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
In the House of Representatives: Resolved, That there be paid out of the publick Treasury of this Colony. to Captain Jeremiah Obrien, the sum of seven hundred and sixty-three Pounds, six Shillings and one Penny, in full of said Obrien's Muster-Roll, to the 1st instant.
In Council: Read, and concurred.
Memorial of James Cargill, of Newcastle, in the County of Lincoln, setting forth to your Honours... Continue Reading
Date: 15 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Permit the Sloop Rainbow Samuel Perkins Master with his Crew, consisting of Two Hands, to Pass from the Harbour of Boston to Damascotay in Ballast.
Date: 15 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Genlemen of the Councel it seems on Saturday Last [February 10] a French vessel Ran on shoar on the south side of the Cape with an Hundred & Odd Hogsheads of molases and some Other small Articles and one Hogshead of sugar She Had a French master and one Pinkham of Nantucket the English master their Papers are all In French so I Can say But Little about them: there was on Board sd vessel one... Continue Reading
Date: 15 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
The sloop Maccaroni, Capt. Hunting, is arrived at the east end of Long-island from the West Indies: About 16 days since the sloop overset off Cape Hatteras, by which accident the Captain and one of the men were drowned; the whole crew were overboard, but all of them except the two before mentioned recovered the vessel again, when she soon righted. 1
Capt. Lowndes from St. Croix,... Continue Reading
Date: 15 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
The Committee appointed to draught an ordinance for erecting a Court of Admiralty in this Province, reported, That they had consulted William Livingston, Esq., one of our Delegates in Continental Congress on the subject, and proposed to him, whether it would not be of manifest advantage to the Colonies, if that Congress should, by one general ordinance, institute the powers and mode of erecting a... Continue Reading
Date: 15 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Information being received that General [Henry] Clinton was gone from New York, the Congress came to the following resolution:
The Congress have a proper sense of the spirit and patriotism of the associators of the city and liberties of Philadelphia, in cheerfully offering and preparing to march, in order to assist in the defence of New York; but, as the danger which occasioned an application for... Continue Reading
Date: 15 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
[Philadelphia] Thursday 15 [February] ー A Letter being recd from Gen. Lee 2 the Associators were countermanded going to N York ー A report was made & agreed to about the Mode of fortifying Hudsons River ー some Gentn were selected to go into Canada viz ー Dr [Benjamin] Franklin, Saml Chase & Charles Carol of Carolton Esqrs together with the Rev. John Carol... 5 Ton of Powder said... Continue Reading
Date: 15 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Resolved, That Capt. Robert Whyte & John Nixon be directed to apply to Simon Shurlock, and in their name to request him to finish the Ship now building for this Province, with the greatest expedition, and to employ an additional number of Men for that purpose.
Date: 15 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
On Tuesday last Capt. ---- from Fyal and Lisbon arrived here. He left Fyal the middle of October, at which time two English men of war were cruising off there and had taken and made prizes of seven sail of whalers. He left Lisbon the nineteenth of November, and informs, that the night before he sailed, there arrived a packet from England, and it being reported that she had orders for seizing all... Continue Reading
Date: 15 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
(A Sp[eec]h[)] of N: B. Before the County Court held at Lewis town Feb: 14 1776 N:B: The Sheriff was afraid of being acctble for the de[b]t and desird the Court to indem[ni]fy him.
I was this Morning inform'd that one [William] Green who had deserted from me was last evening, on that account, taken up and put in your Goal. As it was very common whilst we lay at Reedy Island for the Good People... Continue Reading
Date: 15 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
I have the Pleasure to inform you that since I wrote to you we have Received a Reinfor[c]ement of 120 Men from Rhode Iland and have also [i]ncreased our fleet with a Sloop of ten Guns and 70 Men and small Schooner of 8 two pounders from Maryland. 2 I now muster 109 Men in the Whole, and am in every Respect well equipt. have by great odds the fastest sailing Vessel in the fleet. except... Continue Reading
Date: 15 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Sir In Consequence of a Letter received this Day from Mr John Thompson dated 1st Feby the Council of Safety have determined to purchase the whole of the Gun Powder imported by Mr Nathaniel Rumsey in Partnership with a Gentleman of Philadelphia ー or if that cannot be done, then so much as you can agree for, and request you would make the Contract for the Use of the Province ー they have sent by... Continue Reading
Date: 15 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Mr Robert Purviance engages with the Council of Safety to return to them the 424 yards of Canvas delivered to Mr Lux, also the 165 yards delivered for the [Continental] Sloop Hornet, and the 143¼ yards delivered Mr Hugh Young.
Date: 15 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
The Members present taking under Consideration the defenceless State of the Town and Neighbourhood of New Bern, and having received Intelligence from Cape Fear that a Vessel has been lately fitted out by the Ships of War on that Station, drawing but Eight and a half feet Water, and being under some Apprehensions that such armed Vessel may be destined to attack the Town, therefore thought it... Continue Reading
Date: 15 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Capt. [Thomas] Shubrick, from the Committee to examine a ship now on the stocks at Capt. [Robert] Cochran's, reported, That having examined the said ship according to order, they found her every way unfit to be equipped, as a ship of war, in the colony service.
Resolved, That a Committee be appointed to consider and report the best means, and an estimate of the expence, of building, with the... Continue Reading
Date: 15 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Lord William Campbell is still on board a man of war in the Harbour. Our town is well fortified. The following is a list of Forts, Batteries, and ships of war at South Carolina: ー Sullivan's Island, 26 guns, 18 and 32 pounders; Fort Johnson, 21 guns, 18 and 32 pounders; Hadd[r]al's Point, 6 guns, 18 pounders; Fort William Henry, 12 guns, 32 pounders; Wilkin's Fort, 23 guns, 9, 12, 18, and 32... Continue Reading
Date: 15 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
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