Volume 7
Whereas, The Board thought it necessary to employ a Clerk; It was thereupon
Resolved, That Corn's Sweers should act in that Capacity, paying him 7/6 for each day's attention
Date: 25 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Congress having received information that a quantity of woolens hath been brought into the port of Baltimore, by a privateer belonging to the State of New York, which are fit for the army, and immediately necessary for cloathing and supplying the new raised levies;
Resolved, That the Board of War be directed to appoint proper persons to appraise the said woolens, in order that the value of the... Continue Reading
Date: 25 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
1
doz: Swivell Hammers
½
Coyle Worming
4
Worms for Swivells
1
lb Tacks
½
doz: Horn Lanthorns
1
½
Rheams Cartridge Paper
2
doz: of 5 Inch Blocks
1
Quart Spirits Torpintine
2
½
doz: Tackle books & Thimbles
8
lb Tallow
14
Hand spikes
2
lb Lamblack
3
Gallons Paint Oil
2
lb Twine
1
Small Keg white Lead
2
doz: Marlin
1
do Read do
4
lb Pamisity... Continue Reading
Date: 25 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
There is wanted immediately for the use of the Continental Yard at Gospoit 2 Hausers, Cable laid of 56 Inches, one of which to be fine Yarns, as it will be for heavey purchases, also a Coil of 2½ and one of 3 Inch Rope for Tackel falls, the Above as soon as ready, should be glad to have sent down to the Yard (if any opportunity offers) directed to Captn [Paul] Loyall Continental Marine Agent... Continue Reading
Date: 25 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
February [1777]
Monday 24th
Antigua bore So 36 Leagues
At 6 AM Saw a Sail to the E'ward gave Chace Saw another Sail in the NE Qr Tack'd and gave Chace Saw 2 more Sail in the NE 4 sail in sight.
Do [Moderate breezes and fair] Wr at 2 PM Hoisted out the Boats and sent them Mann'd & Arm'd in Chace of a Sloop at 7 the Boats return'd with the Chace a Sloop from So Carolina bound to St Eustatia... Continue Reading
Date: 25 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
In Answer to the Copy of a Memorial which You have received from my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty transmitted to them from the Earl of Suffolk one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State from Monsr de Hennoken the Danish Charge d' Affairs, complaining of my Conduct in His Majesty's Ship Hind under my Command: in the Road Fredericstadt, off one of the Danish West India Islands: and... Continue Reading
Date: 25 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
You haveing the Command of the Ship Mifftin belonging to the United States of America now every way equipt for the Sea, It's my Orders you embrace the first Opportunity of Wind & Weather & proceed with said Ship to Chesepeak Bay in Virginia when (if please God) you arrive there apply to Mr J. H. Norton at Williamsburgh who Transacts Business for the Continent & deliver him my Letter... Continue Reading
Date: 26 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
I lately received an Order from the Honle Continental Marine Committee, to send two small Vessels to Baltimore, for Iron & flower on accot of the Continent — to your Address; in Consequence of which Ive sent the Schooner Dove, Cap James Miller by whom this will be handed you, and by whom you will please Ship as much Iron & flower as the Schooner will carry with safety, on accot of the... Continue Reading
Date: 26 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
You being Appointed master of the Lynch pacquet, to transmit dispatches from the Honble Congress to the american plenepotentearies at the court of France it is my orders that you imbrace the first fair wind and make the best of your way to the port of Nants in £ranee, carefully avoiding coming nere any vessell at Sea, You are to keep your dispaches from Congress with all your private Letters,... Continue Reading
Date: 26 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
That your Petitioner was taken in the Schooner Earl Percy, by a private armed vessell called the Eagle, commanded by Elijah Freeman Pain [Payne]; as he was returning from the West Indies to Halifax, & was carried into Plymouth in this State — Where said Schooner & Cargo (in which your Petitionr was largely interested) have been sold by order of the Judge of the Maritime Court — That your... Continue Reading
Date: 26 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Febry 77
Wednesdy 26
Remarks on board his Majestys Ship Diamond
AM weighed the Bt Br anchor and Towed the Ship further of[f] Shore then let go the Small Br anchor in 12 fathm water Loosed Sails
Modr and Cloudy PM weighed the Stream anchor and Caried it out to the Southrd to work the Ships head by. at 3 P M a Galley from the Rebbles came Down and fired at us which we Returned with 18 guns at... Continue Reading
Date: 26 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Saturday last, the British ship Nigar, Capt Talbot anchor'd near our harbour; and sent a Flag on shore, with a message from a person on Long-Island to his daughter, a young woman, for some time a resident in this town requesting her to take passage in the ship, for said Island, but for prudential reasons, she declined the voyage. The next day the Nigar sail'd to the westward.
On Saturday also, a... Continue Reading
Date: 26 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
after Su table Regards to your honour: I Wold a quaint you I have Lately heard there Was Many things Said to My disadvantage at ticonderoga after I Left there last fall: I think It Was taking a Great advantage of a mans Carictor Biting [behind] his Back I think it Wold Bin No More than yousing Me Well If any Man had any thing a Ganst My Conduct to have talked that over While I was present and in... Continue Reading
Date: 26 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
You will find enclosed herein an Invoice & bill of Loading for 31 casks of the best Carolina Indico containing 8795 lb & 35 bbls of Superfine flour the whole amounting to £ 4731. 18..6 this currency being Invoiced at the real cost, by which you will see how high a price these articles stand in here and we hope you will exert yourself to make them bring an equivalent in Martinico, You will... Continue Reading
Date: 26 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
William Russell, Surgeon's Mate of the Montgomery, committed to. Goal, by order of the Council of Safety, for leaving the service without a discharge and engaging in the Continental.2
Ordered, That the following Letter be sent to Commodore Seymore [Thomas Seymour]:
Sir: — It is the opinion of this Board that there is a great deal of negligence and inattention prevails in the Fleet.
It... Continue Reading
Date: 26 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
To be Sold by Public Vendue, on Friday, the fourteenth Day of March next, at Chincoteague Inlet, A Sloop, Taken up at sea, and brought in there, by the Continental Schooner Wasp, John Baldwin, Commander.
Inventory to be seen at Mr. Burdett's, or at the time of sale.
Date: 26 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
. . . It grieves me to hear that the Continental Seamen have not been paid their Wages and Prize Money. Repeated Orders have been given to the Agent to have it done. The Congress are fully sensible of the Importance of having a respectable Navy, and have endeavoured to form and equip One; but through Ignorance and Neglect they have not been able to accomplish their Purpose yet. I hope however to... Continue Reading
Date: 26 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
1776
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Cash paid for a bll Tar delevd in March
18
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ditto paid for ½ lb Salt Petre
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6
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Jno Kelly 13 . . 4 . . 0 Henry Conrod
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Rodolph Manley 28 . . 16 . . 4 Jno Horn
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Jno Stoops 8 . . 8 . . 0 Benedt Tar
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Date: 26 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
26th [February, 1777] Latitude 33°. 30', the winds blowing constantly in storms from the West northerly, we have been obliged to go to the southward to escape drifting to the eastward, and to find more temperate weather for our people, who begin to be unfit for duty, as well as to attempt some Port at least in the thirteen United Colonies; what renders our condition still more disagreeable is the... Continue Reading
Date: 26 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Whereas a Quantity of Gun Powder (Vizt Eleven thousand two hundred pounds) has been found on board the Roebucks Prize Adventure, now lying in this Harbour; and should the same be put up to Sale at this Island, it might probably be purchased; and secretly conveyed away for the use of the American Rebels, to prevent which inconvenience to His Majesty's Service, I think it proper the same should be... Continue Reading
Date: 26 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
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