Volume 13
June 1778
Thursday 4th:
[Roenock1 SWbS distance about 4 Miles]
at 5 AM saw a Sail ahead gave Chace ½ pt: 6 Spoke the Chace which proved to be the Active Privateer Sloop from New York2 ½ pt. 9 saw a Sail NWt: gave Chace at ½ pt. 11 Saw Several Vessels lying within Ockerccock bar3 at Noon the Entrance of the... Continue Reading
Date: 4 June 1778
Volume: Volume 13
Captain Timothy Parker, Connecticut Navy, to Governor Jonathan Trumbull of Connecticut, June 4, 1778
This comes pr. Post. I have wrote this day by way of Boston, to inform Your Excellency of the arrival of the Oliver Cromwell and Defence1 in this Port, having had no success since the taking the Keppel & Cyrus2 from Bristol for Jamaica—which two valuable Ships have come safe to hand—The Defence will be obliged to perform a quarantine on account of her having... Continue Reading
Date: 4 June 1778
Volume: Volume 13
Fryday, June 5th, [Liverpool, Nova Scotia]—Rains and foggy. The Privateer still remains at ye wreck,1 and I understand towards night, that Seth Freeman and John Kinney are entered on board her. She has thrown out her ballast, and is loading with iron.2 I understand it is the same Privateer that carried Ebenezer Herrington to New England.
Date: 5 June 1778
Volume: Volume 13
Your favor ⅌ Express without date I Recd. (as also the Dispatches for France,) the 2d. Instant since which there has not been a fair wind, the Schooner Amity Capt. Palmer1 will Sail the first wind with the Dispatches as she is Compleatly Ready; this vessell I purchased for Acct of the Continent for this particular purpose I have given Orders... Continue Reading
Date: 5 June 1778
Volume: Volume 13
June 1778
Friday 5
Pidgeon Hill [Mass.] WSW 5 Lgs:
Cape Ann W½N 6 Lgs:
Do [Mode & Cloudy] with Intermix'd Foggs at 2 PM saw 2 Sail to the Northd gave chace & came up with them, found them to be a Sloop1 & Schooner loaden with Wood bound to Boston took the Sloop in Tow & let the Schooner proceed at 7 In 1st... Continue Reading
Date: 5 June 1778
Volume: Volume 13
Your Favour of 18 Febry. was handed Me by Messrs Vareplank & Brown the 12th Ultio. who arrivd here in good Health & Spirits, they tarried here a Fortnight & then went to their respective Homes. I had the pleasure of furnishing Mr Brown with 1200 Dollars for Acct. as pr Advice. I have the Pleasure to inform you, that your very... Continue Reading
Date: 5 June 1778
Volume: Volume 13
June 1778
Fridy 5th.
Pt. Judith [R.I.] No. 3 or 4 Miles [Beaver's Tail] Lighthouse NNE½E
First part fresh Gales, Latter more Modt. & Cloudy Wr. AM up T. G. Mts. Weighd & came to Sail, and Chaced a Brig1 under Block Island, at 11 brt. her too, found her to be a Victualer, a Prize to an American... Continue Reading
Date: 5 June 1778
Volume: Volume 13
Notwithstanding the Enemy have undertaken to block up the Harbour of Bedford,1 three Vessels from thence have arrived here since our last, two of which were from the West-Indies, and had put in there for a Harbour.
We hear that the Captains Champlin and Conkling,2 of this Port, have taken a Snow which they sent into the West-Indies; and that Capt. Conkling is arrived at... Continue Reading
Date: 5 June 1778
Volume: Volume 13
I was honoured with Your Lordship's dispatches of the 10th. 11th. & 12th. of March.—1
In my last letter, transmitted by His Majesty's Ship Andromeda, I had the honour of informing Your Lordship that from the dispersed situation of the Fleet on other necessary Services, the Admiral could not with certainty inform me when sufficient Convoys for the... Continue Reading
Date: 5 June 1778
Volume: Volume 13
It appearing to this Board from a Letter of the Board of War dated the first Day of this Instant1 that there is a pressing occasion for the immediate Transportation of the Provisions purchased in Virginia and this State for the use of the Army. It is therefore ordered that a sufficient Number of the Bay Craft be impressed for the purpose of Transporting the said Provisions to the Head... Continue Reading
Date: 5 June 1778
Volume: Volume 13
. . . We have vessels frequently coming in with great quantities of goods, they are fallen in price, 2 or 300 per cent...we imagine the reason of so many getting in here is owing to the men-of-war and cruizers being called to the assistance of Augustine,1 on your movements towards that place. I heartily wish that you were provided with every thing necessary, that you might proceed on... Continue Reading
Date: 5 June 1778
Volume: Volume 13
. . . By our last advices the body of Carolina and Georgian troops, reported to be two thousand two hundred and fifty men who were coming to invade this Province have halted on the other side of the Altamaha river,1 the preparations with the Augmentation of our Forces I suppose has deterred them from proceeding in their opperations, my intentions was to let them advance as far as S... Continue Reading
Date: 5 June 1778
Volume: Volume 13
June 1778
Fridy. 5
Do. [Old Cape Francs.] SE. 4 Lgs.
at 9 AM brot. too with the Main topsail to the Mast—
Old Cape Francs. SEbS 4 or 5 Lgs.
Fresh Gales & Cloudy—at 5 PM. gave Chace to a Sail in the NW.—½ past 8. fird two 6 pdr. & five Swivels & brot. her too—an American Schooner from N.... Continue Reading
Date: 5 June 1778
Volume: Volume 13
Board of War,—
Present—
Boston June 6th. 1778—
Saml. Ph’ps Savage Esqr
Eleazer Johnson Esqr
John Brown Esqr
Isaac Phillips Esqr
Thomas Walker Esqr
Saml. Ph'ps Savage Esqr. President—
Order'd, That Capt Harreden1 be paid on Account . . £30..-..-
Order'd, That... Continue Reading
Date: 6 June 1778
Volume: Volume 13
ALL Persons having any Demands against the Ship Mary,1 lately, captured by the Sloop Providence, John P. Rathbun, Esq: Commander,2 are desired to exhibit the same for Settlement, on or before the 30th Instant, in order that the said Cruize may be settled as soon as possible.
Date: 6 June 1778
Volume: Volume 13
New-jersey, ss. NOTICE is hereby given, that a Court of Admiralty will be held at the house of Gilbert Barton, in Allentown, on Monday the thirteenth day of July next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to try the truth of the facts alledged in the bills of Joseph Wade1 (who as well, &cc.) against the sloop or vessel called the Duck, and the sloop or vessel called the... Continue Reading
Date: 6 June 1778
Volume: Volume 13
Mr Whiting. Mr Travis and Mr Lewis.—
Ordered that a Warrant issue to Mr Foster Webb Junior1 for three thousand pounds on accot. for the purpose of furnishing and paying the Officers and sailors belonging to the navy of this State.—
Date: 6 June 1778
Volume: Volume 13
June 78
Saturday 6th.
30°: 55' No.
Light Breezes & clear Wr. PM at 1 still in Chace1 At 8 TKd. Ship fired 4 12lbs. at the Chace at ½ past 9 fired 3 12 Pounders Do. at 10 fired several Guns at ½ past she brought too a Brigg from Boston bound to So. Carolina in Ballast sent an Officer in the Yaul to take... Continue Reading
Date: 6 June 1778
Volume: Volume 13
. . . His Excellency1 then laid before the board a letter which he had received from the Officers of His Majestys Sloop of War Sylph2 now stationed in the River Mississippi praying for an Encouragement of Lands on which he desired their Advice.
The Board advised that the Consideration of the said letter be postponed Untill the Sylphs Return from the Mississippi—
Thomas... Continue Reading
Date: 6 June 1778
Volume: Volume 13
June 1778
Sunday 7th
At Single Anchor in Seaconnet Passage.1
at 8 AM weigh'd & came to Sail, at 9 saw a Sail in the SW Qr. made sail and gave Chace, at 11 Tack'd Ship, at Noon the Chace bore SSE.
Seaconnet Rocks NNW Dist: 3 Leagues. Fresh Breezes with Rain,
at 4 PM abreast of Catyhunck,2 & saw the Chace going thro' Quick's [Ho]le,3... Continue Reading
Date: 7 June 1778
Volume: Volume 13
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