Volume 7
I have a man by the name of Patrick Lynch which formerly belongd to the Boston, he shall be given up any time to your order — Should be glad to know how Privateering gos on in Boston I am e[n]gaged in a deep dispute with the Genl Court of this State in Consequence of their giving one Leave to Sail She has 80 Seaman 50 Landsmen I have provoked them to the Last degree by pointing out their Errors I... Continue Reading
Date: 18 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Notice is hereby given, that by Order of the Hon. Committee of Safety of this state, an embargo is laid on the following articles, which are forbid being sent out of this state, either by land or water, viz. Rum, molasses, sugar, cotton wool, sbeeps wool, flax, coffee, cocoa, chocolate, linnen, cotton and linnen, wollen and cotton goods of all kinds. — Provisions of all and every sort, — Shoes,... Continue Reading
Date: 18 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Petition of Silvanus Hussey setting forth that he has a Vessel & Cargo intended for a Voyage to South Carolina to export a Cargo of Rice & from thence to Bilboa &c praying for permission to prosecute such a Voyage. To the Naval Officer of Nantucket Permit the Brig Wolf owned by Silvanus Hussey whereof Shubael Worth is Master to take on board One hundred and Seventy barrels of Oil and... Continue Reading
Date: 18 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
I Azariah U zuld being on a passage from London to Halifax on board the Ship Julius Caesar was made prisoner by John Foster Williams Commander of the Sloop Republic and sent into this port in the month of August last —
And whereas the Council have at my request permitted me to depart from this State to New York or Halifax, giving my Parole and engaging to do all in my power to procure the... Continue Reading
Date: 18 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Sir The very great Scarcity of Flour, Bread and Iron in this State, and the danger of the Inhabitant"s suffering for want of those necessary Articles have induced the Council of War, to fit out the Sloop Diamond Timothy Coffin Master to your Address to procure them. —
We inclose you a Draught upon the Continental Treasurer for a sufficient Sum of Money to lade her, and desire that you will put... Continue Reading
Date: 18 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
I was notified by Colo. [Oliver] Wolcott of the resolve of Congress of the 23d January and your resolve upon the same of the 28th of January, directing Colo Wolcott to empower me with my Council, to determine the places where the two Frigates, ordered to be undertaken in this State, should be built, and to appoint proper persons to superintend and execute the business, which I have communicated... Continue Reading
Date: 18 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
You with the Sailors under your Command will immediately repair to Tyonderoga and put yourselves under the Command of Colo: [Anthony] Wayne who will employ you in such Services as he shall think necessary until Lake Champlain becomes navigable when you will be ordered on Board the Vessels. By order &c
Date: 18 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Honorable Gentlemen. By this Opportunity I forward you Sundry dispatches from Congress and the Committee of Secret Correspondence Still at Baltimore, and from them I have just received the enclosed resolve of Congress dated the 5th Inst Copies of which I Shall transmit you by various Conveyances, in order that you may give orders for procuring the Articles required and to have them Collected... Continue Reading
Date: 18 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
. . . Our Intelligence from New York that they [the British] have built 20 row Gallys and are about building_several Redaus which are a very large kind of floating Battery so Constructed as to sail They say these are to carry 1000 men each and 40 Pieces of heavy Cannon yet to draw but four feet water Their use is either to act against Shipping in smooth water or to land great bodies of men... Continue Reading
Date: 18 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
In Secret Committee of Congress
Honorable Gentlemen
Baltimore Feby 18th 1777
You will receive herewith a Copy of our Letter of Yesterday by the Lexington with its enclosures. This goes to Boston for a Passage from thence. An armed Vessel belonging to that State will carry the dispatches, & will be governed by your directions respecting her Load back, & the Time of her return. Should you... Continue Reading
Date: 18 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Your favor of 23d ulto by Capt [Samuel] Tucker is just come to hand: 42,000 dollars are on the way to you and I hope will be in your possession long before this reaches you — the letters you refer to I have not seen — viz those to the Secret and Marine Committees — I shall pay due attention to them when I know their contents — the letter you refer me to concerning the guns from Connecticut is not... Continue Reading
Date: 18 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Sales of Brignt Mary Ann & Cargo lately made Prize by the Brigantine Lexington Commanded by Willm Hallock Esqr & Sold by Virtue of a Decree of the Honble Court of Admiralty for the State of Maryland —
To whom Sold
What sold
Amount
Robt Purviance
1 Anchor Wt 12 lb
107
10
—
David Stewart
1 ditto 6 lb
32
10
—
Saml Purviance & Co
119,000 feet Mahogany 27/6
1636... Continue Reading
Date: 18 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Ordered that the Register of the Court of Admiralty, be directed to furnish this Board with a List of the Crews, libelled in the said Court.
All Captains, Mates, and Mariners who have been taken on Board any British merchant ships, and who now remain prisoners on parole in this Commonwealth, are directed to repair to this Board with all convenient speed in order to their being exchanged and the... Continue Reading
Date: 18 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
The Board having had frequent complaints from the Officers of the Navy that your provisions in general is very bad, therefore desire you'll imploy immediately Mr John Harris to inspect all such Provision as you may furnish the Navy with. —
Date: 18 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
February 1777
Tuesday 18th
Cape Henry So88W Distance 20 Leag
At 7 AM saw 2 Sail NWt & 1 to SEt Out Reefs set the Topgt sails & gave chace to NW at 8 Smith's Island NW 4 Leagues.
Bore away & gave Chace SEt
Fresh gales & Squally at ½ pt Meridn Fired a Shot & Brot too the Chace a Snow from Bedford in New England bound to Virginia, sent a Petty Officer & six Men onbd to... Continue Reading
Date: 18 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
I have the Honor to inclose you Bill of Lading for Six hundred & Sixty three Barrels of Powder, being Part of a Quantity which I lately received from the Continental Agent in France, for the Use of the different States; to be distributed amongst them, in Such Proportion, as their Wants may have a Call for — 2
I am not confident that you will have occasion for So considerable a... Continue Reading
Date: 18 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
On Motion Ordered that a Warrant be drawn on the Treasury for One hundred and Eleven pounds Thirteen shillings and four pence in favor of Hon'ble Richard Derby Esqr Agent for the Schooner Diligent & Sloop Macchias Liberty in full of his Account settled this day — a Warrant was drawn & Signed by fifteen of the Council.
On Motion Ordered that John Fisk have the Command of the Armed Brig... Continue Reading
Date: 19 December 1777
Volume: Volume 7
War Office,
Sir,
Boston Feby 19th 1777
The Board of War direct you to take Care of the Masts you mention'd to them as lying in Kennebeck River near your House, — they desire you to do whatever is necessary to prevent their being Carried away when the River breaks up — If any Person should offer to molest you in this Charge, or to take any of them away, you will make a Return of his Name to this... Continue Reading
Date: 19 December 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Journal of the Massachusetts Privateer Brig Rising States, Captain James Thompson, December 19, 1777
Remarks Tuesday [Wednesday] Febuary 19 — 1777
At 5 A. M, tackt Stood to the Westward heavy Gail & full of Snow
At 7 tackt Ship & Stood to the Eastward. Several of our people much frost Bitten —
Nothing more Remar[kable]: No Lattd in by Obsd
At 1 P M. fresh Winds at WNW Cloudy & thick of Snow at 10 P M. Wore Ship Stood for Nantucket Island Being very much Clog'd with Ice &... Continue Reading
Date: 19 December 1777
Volume: Volume 7
We, who present this petition, engaged on board the Ship Warren, with an earnest desire and fixed expectation of doing our country Some Service; we are Still anxious for the weal of America, and wish nothing more earnestly than to See her in peace and prosperity. We are ready to hazard every thing that is dear, and, if necessary, Sacrifice our lives for the welfare of our country. We are desirous... Continue Reading
Date: 19 December 1777
Volume: Volume 7
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