American Theatre from April 18, 1776, to May 8, 1776
Mondy 22 at 8 A M the best Bour Cable parted made sail Running
into Sunbrey Harbour at 11 Came too with the Small Bour in 2 fm Carried out the Kedge Anchor and Hawser and hove into the Channell St Catherans pt East the town of Sunbrey WNW Modete Breezes and Cloudy Wr our boat Employ'd Sounding the Channel to Town Weigh'd & Dropt Lower Down at 7 P M sent the boat mann'd and arm'd up the River... Continue Reading
Date: 24 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Monday 22d at 2 A M brot too, at 5 wore and made sail, out reefs, at 6 unbent the Mainsail, the Island of Annadechoros ESE 3 leags, set steering sails, at 10 Anchored in 7 fathoms with the Small Bower in Annadochoros Bay, and veered to 1/3 of a Cable; found here his Majesty's Sloops Atalanta and Weasel, with the Mary and Juno Schooners Prizes. Light Breezes with small rain, P M Moored a Cable on... Continue Reading
Date: 24 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
By your late papers I find that you have received accounts of several Americans being persecuted in this island, who have been unfortunately taken by the men of war. I have now the pleasure to inform you that the spirit of persecution here has in a great measure subsided, since the arrival of
2
Mr. Burk of this island from... Continue Reading
Date: 24 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
I have just received your favour of yesterday & say in answer ー The Genl [Wooster] thinks it will be better that Mr. Lizott should be sent by Water than through the Country. With regard to the two Vessels, Capt [Barent J .] Tenyck who takes command of Peppers Schooner has Orders to take up all suspected Vessels and boats, and those two have been mentioned to him; he will stop at Point au... Continue Reading
Date: 25 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Sr Sr Pt. aux Tremble April 25 1776
This will be handed you by Major [Zachariah] Dubois, and is to Request the favour of you to Arrest, & Confine in Jail a certain acadian Whose proper Name is Basiell Boudrott, he Now Passes by the Name of Dugan and is the Mate of the Schooner Providence Commanded by <;:apt. Palmer,
I am bold to charge this fellow above named with the Murder of Capt.... Continue Reading
Date: 25 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Sir Having in my Letter of the 16th Instant offered to their Lordship's consideration the deficiency in the Complements of several of His Majesty's Ships under my Command, and as their Lordships will perceive by the States and Conditions of the Ships transmitted to them, that many Supernumeraries are borne, I must beg they will please to observe that these being composed of Men taken out of the... Continue Reading
Date: 25 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
I am to inform you Captain [Tobias] Furneaux of the Syren has acquainted me that, on the 15th Instant he took a Brig belonging to the Rebels which was carrying from Philadelphia to Charles town.in South Carolina, a Company of Artillery consisting of a Captain Commissioned by the Continental Congress, and Seventy nine Men, the most of whom have since Entered into His Majesty's Service with General... Continue Reading
Date: 25 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
My Lord
By the Arrival of the Milford in Nantasket Road on the 26th of March I was honored with your Lordships Dispatches of the 5th. January, with a Copy of His Majesty's Instructions for Major Gen] Clinton's Conduct to the Southward, as well as other Letters Duplicates and Enclosures of a distant Date, which I defer answering by the present Conveyance of a small unarmed Sloop returning to... Continue Reading
Date: 25 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Saturday 20 Paid the Starbd side with Varnish of Pine,. Sent the Boat to Port matoon [Mouton]Sunday 21 Paid the Larbd Do Boat returned with Schooner a Prize.
PM Sent the Prize to Halifax,2 Monday 22 Anchored here the Swan & Halifax Tuesday 23 Squally Wr AM unmoored, Employ'd getting ready for
Sea-
Wednesday 24 Fresh gales & Cloudy, at 4 AM weighed & came to Sail at 8 Cape Le Have WSW... Continue Reading
Date: 25 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
William Jackson of this town, and Crean Brush of New-York, who were on board a brig taken the 3d instant by Capt. Manley,
1 are now imprisoned in the gao 1 of this town.
Date: 25 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
I congratulate you on the success of your Cruise with the Continental fleet; and, hope, nay, expect to see the day when the American fleets ~ill give laws on the Atlantick Ocean. It will give me great pleasure to see your fleet riding in the harbour of Newport. The present motions in this town, I make no doubt, you are well informed of. We received with joy the ten cannon you sent us, and expect... Continue Reading
Date: 25 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Shall be much Obligd to you to Inform me by Mr. Coit, Whom I Shall Apply to for Service of the five Sloops that Went as transports, you Doughtless Remember their tunnage 370 Tons. think it Just for me to be paid untill they return here yr Complyance Will much Oblige [&c.] Sam Olcott
Date: 25 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
You are make what dispatch you can to clean your Brig and you may take the Ballast out of the Bum Brig and what more you want you must make up with Stones ー You must apply to Mr [Nathaniel] Shaw for whatever you may find Necessary ー When you are get ready I desire you may take Care of the Marchant Vesels and Convoy them clear of the Land if the Coast is so clear that you can do it with Safety to... Continue Reading
Date: 25 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Inclosed is an Invoice of the wt & Size of Thirty four Cannon Recd from Admiral Hopkins, Ten of wich is landed at Groton, viz: 3 24 pounders & 2 18 & 5 12 do. The Remainder are at N L & are moastly fitted on carriages he has landed a great quantity of Cannon Ball, and shall pick out those that are suitable. Mr. Ledyard I suppose has carriages already made for the Guns at Groton so... Continue Reading
Date: 25 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Sir I received by Last evenings post, a Letter from Joshua Wentworth Esqr of Portsmouth, who I had appointed Agent for our Little fleet in that Province, it is dated the 15th Instant, an extract from which, I have the honor of transcribeing for your perusal
[Here Washington inserted copy of Wentworth's letter of April 15, 1776, to Stephen Moylan.]
That Sir is an exact copy of part of Mr Wentworth... Continue Reading
Date: 25 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
I wrote you the 14th. Inst., giving Information of the sailing from this Harbour, of the Phoenix, Savage, and Naut~lus Men of War; which, I apprehended were designed to. join [James] Wallace in Order to block up the Fleet under your Command. The latter Part I since find to be groundless, as they have returned, and I find they make a Practice of stretching off from and soon returning to this Port... Continue Reading
Date: 25 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
A draft of a letter to Major-General Schuyler, to be delivered by Capt. Wynkoop, was read and approved, and is in the words following, to wit: In Committee of Safety,
New-York, April 25th, 1776. Sir ー Your letter of the 8th ultimo, reqµesting seamen for the service on the lakes, came to hand on the 16th; the Provincial Congress on that day sent Capt. Wynkoop to Major [William] Douglass on that... Continue Reading
Date: 25 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
We hear from Sandy Hook, that 16 men from one of the ships of war, having landed there in order to get water, they had all got into an upper room in the Light House, where they were carousing; when a party of the New Jersey militia, surprised them, and taking away the lower part of the stairs, made them all prisoners, burned their boat, and filled up the well.
Date: 25 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
To the Friends of our American Navy.
An exact list of the number of men employed in the Provincial ships and privateers during the last war in America.
Nova-Scotia,
300
Massachusetts-Bay,
2300
New-Hampshire,
500
Rhode-Island,
1500
Connecticut,
900
New-York,
1200
Pennsylvania,
1060
Maryland, Virginia, and the other Southern colonies,
1000
8760
Besides these many of the... Continue Reading
Date: 25 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Agreeable to the order of the day, the Congress resolved itself into a committee of the whole, to take into consideration, the letter from General Washington of the 27 of March last)2 &c.; and, after some time spent thereon, the president resumed the chair, and Mr. [Benjamin] Harrison reported, that the committee had taken into consideration the matter referred to them, and had come to a... Continue Reading
Date: 25 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
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