Volume 4
On your arrival in France you will, for some time, be engaged in the business of providing goods for the Indian trade. This will give good countenance to your appearing in the character of a merchant, which we wish you continually to retain among the French in general, it being probable that the court of France may not like it should be known publicly, that any agent from the Colonies is in that... Continue Reading
Date: 3 March 1776
Volume: Volume 4
... No Arrivals of Powder or Arms since my last; or any Account of our Fleet - tho from their present cruizing Ground we hope they will fall in with Ld Cornwallis & the Transportsー
Notwithstanding the Act of Parliament for seizing our Property & a thousand other Proofs of a bitter & irreconcilable Spirit ー there is a strange Reluctance in the Minds of many, to cut the Knot which ties... Continue Reading
Date: 3 March 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Sir By his Majestys Ship the Mercury which arrived here the 17th of last Month, I had the honor to receive your orders respecting the River Delawar, and you may depend, Sir; that I will do my utmost to execute them: I confess, however that, I am of opinion as the River is now become rather formidable, a much larger force is necessary for that service, than I am able to carry thither from hence.
I... Continue Reading
Date: 3 March 1776
Volume: Volume 4
AM dry'd sails arrvd here our Tender with a sloop loaded with salt taken from the Rebels
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Date: 3 March 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Gentlemen: In obedience to your command, we both came on this vessel to demand Mr.Rice.
2 We were ordered on board, and examined by Captain [Andrew] Barkley and Major [James] Grant, who have both declared it was never their intention to commit any act of hostility against this Province, nor do they even now mean any, unless drawn on by you. The above gentlemen have... Continue Reading
Date: 3 March 1776
Volume: Volume 4
The Reasons of my landing an armed force on the Island is in Order to take Possession of the Powder and Warlike Stores belonging to the Crown and if I am not Opposed in putting my design in Execution the Persons and Property of the Inhabitants Shall be Safe, Neither shall they be Suffered to be hurt in Case they make no Resistance.
Date: 3 March 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Employ'd here [Abbacco] pilting Our Marines On b[d] the Sloop Providence, Likewise all the Marines belonging to the Fleet on board two small Sloops, the Comodore had taking, to Cary them to The Hand of Providence, On Sunday 3rd [illegible] & put to Sea with the Fleet, Steering S B E ½ E & S S E 54, then made the Iland of Providence. Bearing S S E 3 Lea[gues] Where we lay off and on... Continue Reading
Date: 3 March 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Sir I wrote You the 9th January last by the return of the November Packet, and by the present Opportunity transmit You Duplicates thereof, which desire You may Communicate to My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. I have now to request you will be pleased farther to acquaint their Lordships that on the 14th January The Viper Sloop, Captn Samuel Graves arrived at English Harbour; and on the 18th... Continue Reading
Date: 3 March 1776
Volume: Volume 4
No 2:
Sir In Addition to my Letter to You of this date marked No 1, I must farther request you will lay before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty the inclosed papers Marked No 1. 2. 3. & 4. - being copies of Dispatches I received Express from Major General How[e], and my Answer thereto; however before the Viper could get to Sea with the two Victuallers I had proposed sending under her... Continue Reading
Date: 3 March 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Cold morning. Grows warmer ... . A number of transport ships, convoyed by the Savage man of war, bound from Halifax to Boston, put in here.
Date: 4 March 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Yesterday se'nnight the Yankey Hero sent into Newbury Port, another Prize, a fine Brig, of about 200 Tons burthen
1 laden with Coal Cheese; &c. bound from White Haven, for the use of the Ministerial Butchers, under the command of General [William] Howe governor of Boston. This is the fifth prize out of eight which sail'd from the above Port, and we are in hopes... Continue Reading
Date: 4 March 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Meeting in being according to Adjournment
Voted. That the Committee's Treasurer pay Mr Cromwell Child One Hundred & twenty pounds Lawful Money in part pay for Timber & Iron Bot of him.ー
Voted. That the sum of Twenty four pounds seven shillings & 8 pence ½d be paid to Jabez Bowen out of the Committee's Treasury being the amount of his Accompt.ー
Voted. That the sum of One Hundred &... Continue Reading
Date: 4 March 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Colony of Connecticut Hartford County ssー
Be it remembered that on this fourth day of March in the Year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred and seventy six personally came and appeared before me Titus Hosmer, Esqr one of his Majesties Justices of the peace for said County Captains George Starr and Giles Sage both of said Middletown in said County, and being duly sworn to declare the Truth upon... Continue Reading
Date: 4 March 1776
Volume: Volume 4
[New York] Die Lunae, A.M. March 4th, 1776.
Mr. [John Sloss] Hobart, from the committee appointed on Saturday last to call on Genl. Lee, to know the reason of the firing by the troops on persons coming to or going out of this city, and the reason of the interruptions given to the persons having passports from this Congress, delivered in their report in the words following, to wit:
The purport of... Continue Reading
Date: 4 March 1776
Volume: Volume 4
The committee appointed to examine and report the number and circumstances of the permits granted for exporting produce, &c. brought in their report, which was taken into consideration, Whereupon,
Resolved, That the restraint be taken off, which was laid by a resolve of the 26th of last month. upon the vessels loading or loaded with Produce for Great Britain, Ireland, or the British West... Continue Reading
Date: 4 March 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Lieu't [Benjamin] Thompson & [John] Webb2 appear'd before the Committee and gave information that a certain Henry Yelverton Price had frequented the places of Rendevous of the Crews belonging to the armed Boats, that by words he endeavour'd to discourage the service, That he had declared himself a Tory, & inimical to the American cause; That he Damned the Congress and wished... Continue Reading
Date: 4 March 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Dr Papa We got here Saturday evening about 4 o'clock ー I shall give you a short acct of our journey: we crossed the bay in 2 hours and a half under a reefed foresail: there was a very high swell in the bay & we were both very sick:
2 we got that evening to Chester town ー the next day we set off facing a cold northwest wind we got no further Thursday then to... Continue Reading
Date: 4 March 1776
Volume: Volume 4
. . . There has been no mention yet of Agents for any of the Colonies: when there is I shall be mindful of what you mentioned.
2 A Brig arrived this morning from Holland with 27½ tons gun powder, some saltpetre and 300 arms. 10 tons was immediately ordered to the camp.
Date: 4 March 1776
Volume: Volume 4
(No 36)
I have the pleasure to inform your Lordship that our little Tenders have been very Successful having taken and destroyed near thirty Vessels employed in the Service of the Rebels, here and to the Northward.
Date: 4 March 1776
Volume: Volume 4
at 6 [P.M.] weighed and made Sail, and at 9 Anchored in Hampton Road, in 13 fathoms, found riding here the Kingsfisher and my Tender the Lord Howe,
2 which brought in a Brig last from France bound to Phila delphia with 40 Barrels of Gunpowder, a quantity of Saltpetre and Sulphur,
3 and a Small Schooner in Ballast belonging to New England.... Continue Reading
Date: 4 March 1776
Volume: Volume 4
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