Volume 1
We the subscribers, Magistrates of the County of Plymouth within the province of Massachusetts Bay ー Most humbly Shewー
That the tumults & disorders which are prevalent in said county, have justly alarmd the small number of Loyal & well affected persons, who reside in the Shiretown, & towns adjacent and (from a variety of threats & insults which have lately been offer'd them) they... Continue Reading
Date: 7 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I had the Honor of your Excellency's Letter of yesterday, and beg leave, in answer, to represent to you that The Act of Parliament allowing no Supplies of Provisions or Fuel, to be brought for the Inhabitants of Boston but such as are cleared at Marblehead, and Stores for the Use of Government only in Vessels Commissioned by or in the immediate pay of the King;2 My orders to the... Continue Reading
Date: 7 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Hope Schooner sailed for Rhode Island with a Quantity of Arms and Ammunition on Board, sent by General [Thomas] Gage to Colonel [Thomas] Gilbert; and the Admiral directed Captain [James] Wallace to convey them to Free Town or Assonet River, with as much Secrecy and Dispatch as could be.
Date: 7 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
PERSONALLY came and appeared before me, David Matthews, Esq; one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, for the City and County of New York, JOHN GRAHAM, Clerk to Robert and John Murray, of this City, Merchants, and being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, did depose and say: That he left this City on Sunday morning last [March 5], in Company with the said John Murray, and... Continue Reading
Date: 7 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Since writing you the 2d Instant none of yours ー and little Alteration Save the Price of Wheat is down to 6/ & Flour to 15/ no acct of the Brig from Liverpool & no Vessel to be got for Drogheda. Doctor Stephenson has a Brig arrived with Salt2 I shall be able to Inform you soon What will be done with it, You may be Assured that if Tichel3 comes & brings any he... Continue Reading
Date: 7 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
From the Captain of a vessel from Hispaniola, just come to town, we learn that a snow has arrived from Glasgow, laden with Bale Goods, Bricks, Wines, &c.; you are sensible, Sir, that these Goods, agreeable to the Articles of Association, ought to be returned; and take this very early opportunity of putting you in mind that she is a subject of your attention, having committed a breach of said... Continue Reading
Date: 7 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
March 1775
Friday 10
Moor'd in Rhode Island Harbour
light breezes and Cloudy PM came in HM Schooner Hope, . . . delivrd to the Hope Schooner 11 Bales of Marine Cloathing & 9 Casks of Camp Equipage Recd from Do 50 Musquets & 50 Bayonets, 1 Barrl of Powder, 3 Boxes of Shot, 1 Bag of Flints, . . .
Date: 10 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
In consequence of the information received from Captain [Isaac] Sears, relative to the suspicion that some part of the cargo of the ship Beulah, had been unladed before she quitted this coast, the Committee of Observation for this town, met this evening, and made enquiry respecting the affair; and thereupon have to inform you, that it appears to them that a boat belonging to this town, did last... Continue Reading
Date: 10 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Honble Sirs I beg leave to acquaint you I arrived here the 6th inst in consequence of a Seizure I made on the 2d the Deposition of which will be transmitted you by the Governor, but I lament it is not in my power to give you the particular contents of the laden, as when I was attacked they robbed me of the Minute I'de taken with some things of considerable value my own property.
From the... Continue Reading
Date: 10 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Came before the Subscriber one of the Lords Proprietary his Justices of the Provincial Court Robert Stratford Byrne, Surveyor of His Majesty's Customs for Sassafras & Bohemia, and made Oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God, that on Thursday the Second Day of March, last being in Kent County Maryland on the great Road leading to Duck Creek in Pensylvania, he this Deponent fell in with two... Continue Reading
Date: 10 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Hon: Sirs We are sorry to have occasion to trouble you at this time on a disagreeable subject, but the inhuman Treatment which Mr Robert Stratford Byrn has received as an Officer of the Customs from a licentious Mob, renders it absolutely necessary that you should as speedily as possible be furnished with a clear and precise Account of the matter, for which purpose we beg leave to transmit a... Continue Reading
Date: 10 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
This day the libel exhibited against the schooner Wray galley, laden with 84 hogsheads of tobacco, by Henry Collins, Esq; commander of his Majesty's armed schooner Magdalen, came on to be heard in the court of Admiralty. The cause of seizure alledged was a supposed violation of an act of Parliament, in not having given bond, before any tobacco had been taken on board, that the same should be... Continue Reading
Date: 10 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Committee of Observation of this town, have this day used their endeavours to make a further discovery, relating to the unlading part of the cargo of the ship Beulah, but are not able to give you the information they desire Samuel Lee, a Boatman of this town, employed and accompanied by Ichabod B. Barnet, Esq; (son in law to Robert Murray) appear from very strong circumstances, to have been... Continue Reading
Date: 11 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
By Sundry favrs of Mr Jas Forde of Dro[g]heda In which we have Recvd order for Wheat, he Requests our Informing you what we are doing for him. We can now Inform you that the Brig Henry & Joseph2
Henry Tickell Master is Arrived here from Liverpool with a Cargo of White Salt for Acct of Mr Jas Forde & the Restrictions on our trade from England hindering us to Even... Continue Reading
Date: 11 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
His Majesty's armed schooner Halifax, commanded by Lieut. [Joseph] Nunn, was lately cast away near Machias, at the Eastern Part of this Province; the Vessel entirely lost, but the People with some Difficulty saved themselves.
Date: 13 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The ship Bealah,2 which lately arrived at N York from England, with a cargo of goods prohibited by Congress, was obliged to depart again with all her goods. She sailed back again from N York for Halifax Tuesday 7th Inst Great were the exertions of the Tories at N York to retain and unlade her; and also to obstruct the choosing of Delegates to the next Continental Congress. ー but with... Continue Reading
Date: 13 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Last Sunday Week [March 5] at two o'clock the Ship Beulah, Capt. Bussell, left the Watering-place, and proceeded on her Voyage to Halifax, in Nova Scotia, with the Goods she had brought from London to this Port.1
On Friday Evening the 10th Inst. arrived here the Ship York, Capt. Acklin, from London, with Passengers. ー At the Request of the Consignee and Captain of the Ship, three... Continue Reading
Date: 13 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Gentlemen, Having been disappointed in our design of reshipping the cargo of the ship Beulah (lately arrived from London) in another bottom, by which we were great sufferers, and though we then conceived that such our design, if executed, would have been a compliance with the resolution of the Congress: We acknowledge that to alleviate in some measure the great loss we sustained, we have been... Continue Reading
Date: 13 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
SAMUEL Lee, of Elizabeth-Town, boatman, being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, deposeth and saith, that on Sunday the 5th inst. he (at the request of Ichabod B. Barnet, Esq:) sail'd from Elizabeth Town aforesaid to New York, in the boat or sloop he usually goes in, the said Barnet going as a hand with him; that he arriv'd there the same evening; that while they were on their... Continue Reading
Date: 13 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On the 7th inst, as George Taylor, of Wilmington, in his own shallop, was on his passage from thence to this city, he was boarded by a party of ruffians from the King's armed schooner the Diana, commanded by Captain [Thomas] Greaves (Nephew to Admiral [Samuel] Greaves now at Boston) who brought Taylor too, and on boarding him demanded what he had on board, to which he answered only rum and limes... Continue Reading
Date: 13 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
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