Volume 11
This serves to inclose the Invoice & Bill of Loading for a Cargo shipp'd on Board the Brig Tryton1 Peter Collis2 by Order of the Commercial Committee of Congress to your Address which I wish safe to hand and to a good Markett, the Seed is of the best Quality & excellently well cleans'd, the Ash is also of the best Quality. I expected to have got this Vessell away a... Continue Reading
Date: 9 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Order'd, That the Ship Johnson1 be sold Capt Williams2 with her Appurtenances agreeable to Inventory at £4050..—..—
(Prize Accot.)
600hd Bread,
½Cwt Sugar—
½ Bll Flour
12lb Coffee—
½Cwt Rice
20lb Butter—
4 Barrels Beef
1 Gallon Oil—
2 do. Pork
1 Box Candles—
1... Continue Reading
Date: 9 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
I recd the Accounts sent me bearing date 7th Jany 1778.1—it is easier to imagine, than to describe my surprize at receiving them in so loose a manner—permitt me, to ask you, if you think the State of Connecticut, together with the Officers and People of the Defence are to be put off with a loose Cr. of neat proceeds &c of the... Continue Reading
Date: 9 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
January 1778
Friday 9
NE point of Bk: Isld:1 SbE 3 or 4 miles
A.M watch Hill NW 1 Mile, TKd ship Saw a Sail to the Southward gave Chace at 11 spoke with a Snow,2 she prov'd to be a frenchman, took 22 men out of her, sent 2d: Lieut and a Patty Officer & 9 men On board, ye: Snow waring Round, she fell on our Ld: Q... Continue Reading
Date: 9 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
"The city has lately been entertained with a most astonishing instance of the activity, bravery and military skill of the royal navy of Great Britain. The affair is somewhat particular, and deserves your notice. Some time last week two boys observed a keg of a singular construction, floating in the river opposite to the city, they got into a small boat, and attempting to take up the keg, it burst... Continue Reading
Date: 9 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Mr Crockett has Agreable to yr Desier ingaged Captn Roggers1 to take the Command of the Schooner2 you proposed giving him—this will be Delivered to you by Captn William McFadden whome I have A verry good opinion of, he has A desier to gett into A good boat I have Advised him to yr servis & mentioned the boat Dolphin3... Continue Reading
Date: 9 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Ordered that a Warrant issue to Benjamin Carter Waller for the use of Thomas Whiting esqr. for forty three pounds fifteen shillings, for the use of Jno. Hutchings esqr. for fifty two pounds fifteen shillings, for the use of Edward Archer esqr. for fifty four pounds seventeen shillings and six pence, and for the Use of Warner Lewis esqr for... Continue Reading
Date: 9 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
I waited on the Virginia Navy Board some time past, and informed them the imposibility of getting men for the Caswell, at the pay they limited me to, which is twenty dollars bounty, & half a dollar per day, provided they ship for three years.1 They informed me it was not in their power to advance the pay, & instructed me to follow such orders as I might receive from your... Continue Reading
Date: 9 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Since our last arrived here the schooner Rachel, Captain Smith, from Martinico; by whom, and by several other vessels from thence, we have an account, that Capt. Ord,1 in the Retaliation privateer,2 belonging to one of the northern states, has taken the Lord Howe privateer, of 16 guns,3 and carried her into Martinico; also that Capt. Monro,4 in a... Continue Reading
Date: 9 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Present
Edward Blake Esqr. first Commissr—
Thos Savage, Thos Corbett, Edward Darrell
Esqrs—
Josiah Smith, John Edwards
The Board agreed that Five Hundred pounds should be paid to the Pursers of the Genl Moultrie, Polly, & Fair American, to provide Stores for the Captains & Officers of said Vessells—... Continue Reading
Date: 9 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Orders by Major Scott1 Jany. 9th: 1778 Capt. Drayton2 Capt. for the Day tomorrow, Lieuts. Williamson3 and Weatherly4 for Duty tomorrow, Lieut. Clifford for the Barrack Guard tomorrow.—
Genl. Orders, Parole Putnam—
one Capt. one Subaltern 1 Serjt. & 29... Continue Reading
Date: 9 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
J'ai reçû la lettre que votre Excellence m'a fait l'honneur de m'ecrire, relativement à deux reclamations, dont l'une pour des pretendues prisonniers anglais que vous dites être détenues aux fers, dans nos prisons, apres l'avoir été à bord des batimens americains par lesquels ils ont été pris Je ne pue faire droit à une parielle reclamation qui porte à faux, puisqu'il n'existe et ne peut exister... Continue Reading
Date: 9 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
The delay of the Cabot obliges me to be again troublesome to you.
. . . I have ordered three sloops and a schooner, with coals to go with this convoy1 which have been ready to sail for eight and twenty days; & would have sent you more, could I have got vessels.
I beg you will not suffer any Contracts to be made for Coals, without my knowing of it first: as there are proposals going... Continue Reading
Date: 10 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
January 1778.
Saturday 10
South part of Nantuc[ket] Shoal N 37 E 11 Lgs.
at 7 AM saw a Sail in the NE. made Sail and gave Chace, soon after saw another Sail to the Eastwd. made the Venus Signal to Chace her, at 10 fired a Shot at the Chace, who brought too; A Brig1 from Newberry Port in Ballast, bound to Maryland, took out her people, and put a petty Officer... Continue Reading
Date: 10 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Order'd, That Mr Ivers1 pay George Williams Esqr for sundry Expences going to Salem to divide Goods in Prize Brigt. King George,2 as Pr Acct. . . . . £16..12../.—
Order'd, That Mr Comy Devens3 deliver Rich'd Derby Esqr two peices Russia Duck in return for two P's. ... Continue Reading
Date: 10 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Since I had the Honour of addressing your Excellencey last Three Persons belonging to Salem made their escape from the Enemy's Fleet at Rhode Island who inform that Lord Howe arrived at Newport Harbour on Saturday last with a Fleet of 20 Sail of Transports including a Frigate1—That there is at present in the Harbour of Newport 9 Ships of the Line2 a Number of Frigates Ships... Continue Reading
Date: 10 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Pursuant to Orders from Commodore Hotham commanding His Majesty's Ships at New York, I do hereby give notice, that if any Flag of Truce be sent hereafter, from any part of the Main, to any part of Long Island, contrary to the notice already given of the Vice Admiral Lord Howe's intentions in that respect, the vessel bearing such Flag will be detain'd, and the Persons belonging to her treated as... Continue Reading
Date: 10 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Two thousand Barrels flour & 100 Tons Iron is wanted to send to the Eastward for the use of the Navy—as flour hath become scarce and dear in the Jerseys and all that can be got there will be wanted for the Army, it is doubtful whether we can ensure that quantity to be delivered at Egg Harbour to be shipped on board Vessels to be sent from the Eastward, we desire your opinion whether that... Continue Reading
Date: 10 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Having been Ordered to attend Congress to answer a Complaint of the Navy Board,1 I now beg leave to lay before your Honors the following Facts, which I can prove, and which I hope will set my conduct in a fairer point of view in the Eyes of your Honors than in that which the Navy Board have placed it.
On or about the 24th of November last2 I received an order from the Board... Continue Reading
Date: 10 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
List of Camp Equipage Military Stores, Baggage &c. taken in the Brigt. Symetry1
at Wilmington Jan: 1778.—
Capt.
Deliverd Genl
Sullivans Division—
Remain at
Wilmington not dld.
Sent to Faggs Manor
Meeting house
195 Musquets
5 Musquets
532 Musquets—
180 Bayonets
190 Bayonets—
20 Fusils or Rifles
21 fusils or Rifles... Continue Reading
Date: 10 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
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