Volume 11
I have great satisfaction, in informing Your Lordship, of our having taken three French men, loaded with Tobacco. On Sunday the 4th instant laying with the Richmond in Mocksack [Mobjack] Bay, at 2 PM, saw two Sail coming down the Bay; we lay quiet for some time, that they should get down the farther; allowing day Light, to get over the Shoal Water, before we weighd, and then gave Chace... Continue Reading
Date: 13 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Present Edward Blake Esqr. first Commissioner
Geo Abt. Hall, Thos Savage, Edw Darrell Esqrs—
Captains Hall,1 Sullivan,2 Morgan,3 & Anthony4 attended the Board, and reported that they Could not possibly be ready as they could wish, to proceed to Sea on the Intended Expedition, until the next Spring Tides,... Continue Reading
Date: 13 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
I am particularly fortunate that the Sentiments expressed in my Dispatch No. 10. are conformable to what your Lordship has declared and recommended in your Letters.—
I have taken the Liberty to enclose Copies of what I wrote to Lord and Sir William Howe,1 on the Subject of your Lordship's circular Letter of the 3d. of October, and the List of Vessels which had... Continue Reading
Date: 13 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Jany: 1778
Tuesday 12
do. [Madeira] N 62:07 E. dis. 829 L[eagues]
do. Wear: [Squally]
at 1 PM spoke the Commodore,1 at 2 made Sail & run ahead of
the Fleet;2 employ'd occasionally
Wednesday 13
do. N 62:51 E. dis. 869 L[eagues]
Cloudy Wear:
at ½ past 2 PM. saw a strange Sail to which we gave Chace... Continue Reading
Date: 13 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
January 1778
Wednesday 14th
Cape Sambro No 29 Et Dis 39 lgs Cape Sable No 38 lgs 40 W Dis 17 lgs—
Light Breezes & Clear Wr [AM?] Out 2 Reef M. T. sail & out ye Fore T. sail & 1 Reef of ye Mainsail Set ye Jibb ye Convoy in Sight Bore Down to windward... Continue Reading
Date: 14 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Order'd, That the Comy Genl Devens1 deliver Capt Bartlett Holmes for use of Schooner Hannah2—
2 Water Casks—
½ B'll Pork—&
2 Beef Barrels—
1 Bread Barell—
1 Bushel Salt—
Order'd, That the Comy Genl deliver Messrs Kemble & Thomas four peices Duck for the Brigt Nants3—... Continue Reading
Date: 14 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Your favors of the 2d & 6th Instant I have recd the things you have order'd shall be forwarded as soon as the Teams arive from Norwich—
As to the Lieut who it seems was against your being appointed, for his name & circumstances I refer you to Mr. Patrick Ward of Groton by whom I was inform'd—
The Ship1 is Condemn'd & I... Continue Reading
Date: 14 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Janry 1778
Wednesday 14
[anchored off Penikese Island]
at 3 AM weigh'd and Came to Sail Stood to the Westward at 4 wind Came ahead bore away and at 5 Came to agn. in Pennekees Harbour bearings as before at 8 weigh'd and Came to Sail Stood to the Et.ward at 9 Run thro Quickss Hole into the Vineyard Sound and Stood to the Eastwd. Saw a Schooner Boat... Continue Reading
Date: 14 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
. . . The Officers of the fleet is Settling their Accounts with me up to the 1st of the year Some I have Got to take Money, I therefore hope, by Mr Bradford,1 I Shall have a further Supply of that Nessa[ry] Article. I have Paid Some of the Officers 3/9 a Rat[ion] of all Species, Which as things is Now, I Believ[e] [is] Low & What the Continential officers are... Continue Reading
Date: 14 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
About eight days ago a very large schooner drove on shore upon the Pea patch, in the Delaware, with the ice, richly laden; having on board, 101 hogsheads of rum and spirits, a large quantity of fine and coarse cloth, India silk, bohea tea, &c. &c. The ice having cut the vessel through, the crew delivered themselves to the militia of Salem county, and the principal part of the cargo has... Continue Reading
Date: 14 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
The Committee on the Treasury brought in a report, which was taken into consideration; Whereupon,
Ordered, That a warrant issue on the commissioner of the loan office in the State of Maryland, for 10,000 dollars in favour of the Marine Committee, to answer a demand made by Samuel and Robert Purviance, continental agents in Baltimore; the said committee to be accountable:
Date: 14 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
By day
The Ship to Windward must hoist a French Jack at the Fore top Gallant mast head and lower the fore top Gallant Sail or Topsail—
If a Sloop a French Jack at the mast head and lower the foresail—
If a Scooner a French Jack at the Foretop mast head and lower the foresail
The Ships to Leward must hoist a Continental Jack at the main top Gallant mast head and lower the main top Gallant sail... Continue Reading
Date: 14 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
By the Bearer we received this evening a Letter from the President of Congress with Copy of the Resolve of Congs.1 which we presume is now sent to your Excellency. The purport of his Letter to us is to request our best Endeavours either to prevent the Sale or removal of the Cargo of Salt which is referred to by the Resolve, or otherwise to endeavr: to secure it for the... Continue Reading
Date: 14 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
To the honourable Benjamin Nicholson Esquire Judge of the Court of Admiralty erected by the honourable Convention of Maryland to take Cognizance of hear, try and determine the Propriety of Captures of vessels and other Property brought into the said State of Maryland pursuant to the Resolves of the honourable Continental Congress & the Law of Nations.—
The Bill of Complaint of John Ryan,... Continue Reading
Date: 14 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
January 1778
Wednesday 14th
Ditto [Cape Henlopen] NW ¾ W 156 Miles
at Noon1 Saw a Sail bearing NEBN. made Sail and Gave Chace. Open'd a Cask of Beef No: 4698 Contents 182 Short of Weight 8 & by Acct. 4 Pieces—at 11 fired a shot & ye Chace Lay too She proves to be a Dutch Ship2 sent an Officer & 11 Men onbd:... Continue Reading
Date: 14 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Ordered that Mr William Frazier deliver to Captain Richard Taylor two Coils of 1 3/4 inch rope, four ditto of 2 1/2 inch, four ditto of 2 inch, one ditto of 3 1/2 inch and one Coil of six thread Ratline for the use of the Ship Tartar.—
Date: 14 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
I beg leave to acquaint their Lordships that this comes by the Lynx Captn. Parry,1 who with the Lord Amherst sail from hence tomorrow Morning for Bluefields and from thence with the Trade the 20th: Inst. to the Downs, agreeable to their Lordships directions; My having had information of a Rebel Frigate and 2 Privateers being off Cape Antonio2... Continue Reading
Date: 14 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
In Obedience to the Commands of my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, signified to me by Your Letter of the 30th. of September last, which I had the Honour to receive on the 15th: of last Month, I do now transmit to You, for their Lordship's Information, four several Lists, including all the Captures which have been condemned in the Vice Admiralty Court of this Island since the... Continue Reading
Date: 14 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
No: 1.
(Duplicate.)
A List of Captures made by His Majesty's Ships of War since the breakig out of the Rebellion in North America, and which have been condemned in the Court of Vice-Admiralty of Antigua; The Grounds of such Condemnations being an Act of Parliament passed in the sixteenth Year of his present Majesty for prohibiting all Trade and Intercourse with the Colonies in... Continue Reading
Date: 14 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Please to acquaint My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that His Majesty's Ship Aurora under my Command being ordered by Capt Lambert1 to go ahead of the Fleet & make the Island of Barbados on the 12th. Instant, I fell in with & took on the 13th. the St Peter Rebel Privateer commanded by Saml Chace, of 18, 6 Prs.... Continue Reading
Date: 14 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
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