Volume 7
. . . I wrote last Fryday to the hone Geo: Williams Esq. about Objections the sailors here had, in engaging should be glad of Directions in entering them — They want 1 Mos pay & their Wages for the Time in port advanced, also Stores such as Rum, Coffee & Sugar, found on the Passage out, & home — should be glad to know the No of Men wanted — have engaged about 90 Masts from 20 to 26... Continue Reading
Date: 17 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
I had time only in my last to make a partial and very imperfect reply to your sundry favours Recd by Express. I intirely agree with you in Sentiment that the villian who sent in the Joseph to providence (which is the Indentical Eagle that took the fanny & Elizabeth) Ought to be hang'd as a pirate, a Brazillia Smith Commanded her the last Cr[u]ise, its evident that some of my Lts have... Continue Reading
Date: 17 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
The Petition of Edwd Gray in behalf of William Rotch & others as p Schedule annex'd Merchts & Inhabitants of Nantucket — Humbly sheweth — That, by an Act laying an Embargo upon all shipping, they are prevent'd procuring their summer Supply of salt, which is absolutely necessary for them to carry on their Fishery, the Whale fishery which was formerly their whole dependance being now... Continue Reading
Date: 17 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Thomas Newberry late Superintendant of the Mellish Transport Bound to Quebec, & taken by the Alfred Commanded by John Jones Esqr in Continential servce humbly begs leave of the Honble Council permission to return to Europe, by a Vessel going from this Port, which sails in a few days. their goodness he hopes will take his Petition into consideration, & kindly permit him to return home,... Continue Reading
Date: 17 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Your Favour 3d Feby is before us, observe what you say relative to the Danger of Navigation in your Bay, find it necessary however to run all Hazards, our determination being to have some Pig Iron, & Flour at all Events, are there[fore] of the same sentiments as when we wrote last, with regard to shipping the Pig Iron, to which Purpose shall dispatch two Schooners immediately to your Address... Continue Reading
Date: 17 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
The two Schooners soonest ready please to dispatch to Baltimore, in Ballast to the address of Messrs Purviance, with the Letters inclos'd with orders to Dunnage 2 foot, or 2½ feet, & bring back a Load of Pigg Iron, to Plymouth, Boston or any other safe Port in this State. —
. . . we have engag'd Pay to no Masters or Seamen in Case of Capture, the difference of Wages between War &... Continue Reading
Date: 17 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Febry 77
Monday 17th
Remarks on board his Majestys Ship Diamond
Boat Employed Rowing guard as before
Modr and fair wr at ½ past 5 P M Saw a brigg & a Sloop comeing out of Providence river Made the Signal to the Centurian for the gundlo which came at 7 Sent her away with Sd Lieut and Mariens and the flat Boat Mand & armed the [sic] Saw a Number of Rebels on Popasquash point which... Continue Reading
Date: 17 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
1777
The Brig Defence
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To Cash advanced Eb Webb for boarding
George Moshure
Jese Jecocks
Seth Burr
Isaac Elwood
Robt Tamage
Gabriel Allen
Abraham Bulkly
as p Bill
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To pd Jas Robeson boarding Peter Curtis
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For John Hill
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& Moses Cam
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pd Wido Cotter for Nursing Thos GreenWell
pd for sheet & shirt... Continue Reading
Date: 17 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
The Hono. Continental Congress having on the 23d of January, 1777, resolved that two frigates, one of 36 and the other of 28 guns, be immediately undertaken in the State of Connecticut; and whereas the Marine Committee on the 28 of January, 1777, ordered that Col. [Oliver] Wolcott transmit to Gov. Trumbull the resolve of Congress of Jany 23d for building two frigates in Connecticut and that he... Continue Reading
Date: 17 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Since writing the annexed orders 2 I have received advice that it is reported in the West Indies that this City is in the Hands of the enemy in consequence of which all the homeward bound Vessells are going into Cheseapeake Bay where inevitably they will fall into the enemies hands, therefore as soon as you deliver these dispatches to Captain Biddle which you must first perform and... Continue Reading
Date: 17 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Resolved, That in Consequence of advice from Thomas Savadge, at the Pennsylvania Salt Works on Tom's River, of a design of the Enemy against those works, and of a Letter from Rob't Morris, Esq'r, one of the members of Congress recommending it to the attention of this Council, The armed boat called the Delaware, under the Command of Richard Eyre [Eyres], Esq'r, be immediately fitted out and... Continue Reading
Date: 17 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Taken out of the Rising Sun beer-house, in Chestnut-street, opposite Mr. Israel Pemberton's, the following articles, viz. A suit of blue clothes trimmed with gold, the uniform of the Captains of the navy belonging to the United States of America, eight ruffle shirts, six pair of stockings, three of which were never wore, and a silver stock buckle. The whole was in a small trunk covered with red ... Continue Reading
Date: 17 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
On motion, Resolved, That the Marine Committee be impowered to advance twenty dollars to each seaman, who will enter to serve on board the Lexington, the same to be deducted out of their share of the prize money, arising from the captures made by the said Lexington.
Resolved, That the Marine Committee be directed to deliver the Lexington, when fitted for the sea and manned, to the order of the... Continue Reading
Date: 17 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
We have the honor to inclose you a Resolve of Congress that is of great Importance to the public Service, which has suffered considerably the last Fall, and during this Winter, by the insufficient manner in which our Soldiers were clothed. Having found much Delay heretofore in getting Cloth made up, the Congress desire that 40,000 compleat Suits of Soldiers Cloaths may be sent.2 In... Continue Reading
Date: 17 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
A considerable quantity of white oak knees, and sixty rising timbers for Ship building. — The knees must be 5 feet long in the body part, and 4 feet in the arm, on the inside — to side 8 inches and a half — to have proportional thickness in and out, and to be perfectly sound. The rising timbers must be from two feet and a half rising in each arm, with various degrees of rise to a square. Those of... Continue Reading
Date: 17 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
I find upon enquiry that a Lieutenancy of Marines in the Ship Defence is vacant, wch I should be very glad was filled by a Brother of mine Thos Coale; he has had for wme time past a desire of entering in the Naval Service, & I think would execute his commition with Spirit & fidelity —
Your influence towards his being appointed to the above vacancy will ever be acknowledged as the greatest... Continue Reading
Date: 17 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
February 1777
Monday 17th
Cape Henry So 49W Distance 9 Leag
At 7 AM saw a Sail to the NW out all Reefs and gave Chace
at ½ pt 8 Fir'd 2 Shot & brot too a Sloop from Boston in Ballast, took her Crew out and Burnt her.2
Date: 17 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
You are hereby required and directed to proceed forthwith to Sea in His Majesty's Ship Seaford under Your Command and Cruize between the Latitudes of 13 to 15 North & Longitude 57 to 60 West, where you are to use your best Endeavours to make Capture of any Privateers Armed Vessels, or Trading Vessels belonging to the American Rebels you can meet with, pursuant to the General Orders you have... Continue Reading
Date: 17 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
We have just received advice of a Guineaman, three vessels from Newfoundland, and a store ship, being taken and carried into Martinico, and a Guineaman carried into Guadaloupe.
Date: 17 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
. . . Capt Roches Ship is now going on, haveg just had Snow to get the timber hawled, shall be able to get her off, in good Season; am much Afraid, shall not get Canvas and Cordage, the Raleigh laying waitg for guns, trying to get them Cast at Massachusetts have got Abt fifteen hundred Tuns of Timber Cut, and hawled for the 74 gun ship — Since the Snow is Come within few Days, have had upwards... Continue Reading
Date: 18 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
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