American Theatre from April 18, 1776, to May 8, 1776
Tuesday afternoon last arrived his Majesty's Sloop Viper, with some transports from the West-Indies, being part of the fleet which was drove off this coast by the severe weather last winter. Wednesday evening last arrived a schooner from Boston [in England] in 23 days passage. Thursday morning arrived his Majesty's ships Rose' and Glasgow, Captains Wallace and [Tyringham] Howe from New Port,... Continue Reading
Date: 23 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Tuesday 23 at 10 AM Saw a Sail to Nowd made Sail & gave Chace. Fresh Gales and clear at 7 Fir'd 4 Shot at the Chace at ½ past Brot too the Chace & sent an Officer onboard, proved to be an American Sloop Recd on board the Prisoners 2
Date: 23 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Essex ss. To the Sheriff of the County of Essex greeting. Whereas at the Court erected to try & condemn all vessels that should be found infesting the sea coast of America and bro't into either of the counties of Suffolk Middlesex or Essex; held at Ipswich in said county of Essex on Thursday the eighteenth day of April in theyear of our Lord 1776, by me Timothy Pickering junr .Esqr judge of... Continue Reading
Date: 23 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Essex ss. To the Sheriff of the County of Essex greeting. Whereas at the Court erected to try & condemn all vessels that should be found infesting the sea-coast of America & brought into either of the counties of Suffolk, Middlesex or Essex'. held at Ipswich in said county of Essex on Wednesday the seventeenth day of April in the year of our Lord 1776, by me Timothy Pickering j unr Esqr... Continue Reading
Date: 23 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Resolved That the whole of the Stores lately Imported into Dartmouth in the Sloop Sally belonging to this Colony be Stored there under the Care of Capt Gamaliel Church & Lemuel Williams, and by them to be kept until removed by the Commissary General of this Colony, or the Order of this Court-
Whereas this Colony have raised & Stationed a number of Men on the Sea Coast for their protection... Continue Reading
Date: 23 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Gentlemen Having had some personal Acquaintance with Monsrs Pliarne & Penet, who Arrived at this Town, from the Cape in West Indias the forepart of last Winter, who After Waiting upon Genl washington at the Head of the Contl Army Near Boston, & after Communicatg there Buisness to him returnd back to this Town, & soon After Travelled through the Country for Philadelphia In order to... Continue Reading
Date: 23 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
The Marine Committee having, agreeable to the orders of Congress, recommended gentlemen to be agents for prizes in the several colonies, Resolved, That Captain John Bradford be appointed for the colony of Massachusetts bay,2 Daniel Tillinghast for Rhode Island, Nathaniel Shaw,
Junr for Connecticut, Jacobus Vanzantz [Van Zandt] for New York, John Nixon, and John Maxwell Nesbit for Pensylvania,... Continue Reading
Date: 23 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
The Delegates of the Thirteen United Colonies To Nathaniel Shaw Jur. Esqr. Greeting, You being Appointed by Congress Agent for Continental Prizes in the Colony of Connecticut, I do hereby Authorize & Impower you to Act in said Office, and to Appoint one or more Deputies under you as you may Judge necessary, & do Require you to be carefull in the Execution of. said Trust, & strictly to... Continue Reading
Date: 23 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
As it is essentially necessary for promoting the Service that full & speedy Information of the State & Condition of the Enemies Fleets in the different parts of America should be communicated to You from whence You may be the better enabled to act with Vigour & Success in your Naval Department, we therefore write to acquaint You that from the best Information the Force in Virginia at... Continue Reading
Date: 23 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
This morning came an account, that Capt. Bar[ry] has taken and sent into Egg Harbour, another tend[er,] a schooner, fitted out by the Phoenix with six gun[s,] which she hove over board, and ran ashore, but Barry soon got her off. ー He had intelligence of another tender of ten guns, which he is gone after. ー Hope we shall soon rid our coasts of these little pirates who have done much mischief.
Date: 23 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Monday 22d at 11 [A.M.] Weighed and made Sail after four Sail coming down the Cape May Channel; The first part ditto [fresh gales and fair] weather, middle and latter moderate and pleasant, P M Cut off the Best Bower outer part, 26 fathoms, being much rubed, at 4 in Chace, they having Separated, at 6 began to fire on a Small Schooner, at 7 continued firing, when she brought 1:00, and proved to be... Continue Reading
Date: 23 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
In the Night of the 23d I fell in with a Brig, who pretended to be a Flag of Truce belonging to St Croix and was bound to Philadelpa for the Children & familys of several English Men that settled upon that Island and were become Burghers of it. As I could by no means admit of this artifice to gain a corespondance with the Rebels, I at first determined to seize the Vessel, which though under... Continue Reading
Date: 23 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
At a Meeting of the Committee 23 April 1776
William Lux Chairman
Present—
J. Moale
A. Buchanan
T. Harrison
J. Calhoun
D. Lux
W. Buchanan
W. Tolley Junr
J. Gittings
J. Boyd
J. Merryman
Geo Lux Secry
On Motion Resolved, That This Committee do recommend Mr John Christie to the Delegates of this Province in Congress, and request them to use their best Endeavours to procure for him... Continue Reading
Date: 23 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
A fine day. At Colo [John] Tayloe's I learned that a sloop and pilot board with above l 00 men had gone to take the tender. 2
Date: 23 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Tuesday 23 A M at 4 saw 3 Sail to the Et wd made the Signal which a Ship Answer'd & bore down at 6 she saluted with 5 Guns retd 3 at 7 spoke the Earl of O[x]ford Transpt from Cork with part of 57th Regt on board; joined Co the Cruizers Tender & Pensacola Pacquet, parted Co the Transport, Mercury, Tender & at ½ past 11 made Sail [Light breezes & fair] TKd Occasionally
P:M at 6... Continue Reading
Date: 23 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Sunday 21 Mode & Cloudy fir'd 3 Six pounders with Grape & Canister, & several Musqts at the Rebels. PM Recd a Sloop load of Wood. sent the Empty Casks for Water
Monday 22 Light Airs and fair Fir'd 6 Six poundrs, with Grape & Canister & several Musquets at the Rebels. Tuesday 23 PM Recd Water by the Watering Sloop.
Date: 23 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Tuesday 23d AM Received fresh Beef and Prize Money for the Greyhound Brigg.2
Date: 23 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Dear Sir I wrote you from Nantasket Road by the Lord Hyde Packet, and gave you an Accot of our departure from Boston; We sailed from Nantasket
the 27th of March, and arrived here with the Whole fleet on the Second Instt never was an Army so Crouded in transports, owing to the want of Shiping. our Situation is little better here, tho' the General has landed but 3 &[c] Companys of Each Regt to... Continue Reading
Date: 24 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Sir I am to inform you that on the 19th Instant Captain Barkley in the Scarborough arrived here from Savannah in the Province of Georgia, to which place their Lor4ships have been acquainted he was sent with two Transports and a small Body of Men under Major [James] Grant to procure Rice and other Supplies for the use of the Army; and I have the pleasure to inform you that the Quantity which has... Continue Reading
Date: 24 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Sir, You will herewith receive the Disposition of His Majesty's Ships under my Command, as also the State and Condition of such Ships of the Squadron from which I have received them since my last Dispatches to you. From the disappointment of the Arrival of the Victuallers, and having Supplied a considerable quantity of th~ Provisions intended for the Fleet for the subsistence of the Army, I have... Continue Reading
Date: 24 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
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