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My Lord; I have the honour, to receive, your Lordship's favour, of the 19. October, inclosing a copy, of His Majesty's order in Council, to prohibit the exporta tion from Great Britain, of Gunpowder, or, any sort of Arms or Ammunition.
The most effectual measures, my Lord, in execution of His Majesty's commands shall be established for arresting, detaining, and securing any Gunpowder, or, any...
Date: 20 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
. . . of this spirit of independence, animating the nation of America, I have the most authentic information. It is not new among them; it is, and has ever been, their established principle, their confirmed. persuasion: it is their nature and their doctrine. . . .
Trade is an extended and complicated consideration: it reaches as far as ships can sail or winds can blow: it is a great and various...
Date: 20 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
RECEIVED of Mr. Christopr ChamplinAgent to the Contractor for supplying His Majesty's Ships at Newport Rhode Island with Fresh Beef between the 2d Day of ---- and the 21 Day of Jany. 1775 Two thousand & Sixty Pounds of Fresh Beef, for the Use of His Majesty's Ship the Hind all which said Beef was actually delivered on board in Kind, and was in all Respects good and fit for his Majesty's...
Date: 21 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I wrote you the 12 Inst Since then I Have Recvd yours of the 1st November Inclosing Fords order.2 but shall not write him untill I find whither I can get a Vessell or not wheat can be got but not less than 7/2 a 7/3 as we cannot go on the Road to Purchase for Want of the Necessary, on Rect of this You will find how our Friends have disapointed themselves by Limmiting us I have rec'd a...
Date: 21 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Annexed you have a Coppy of what we wrote you the 7th Inst since then (we have the pleasure to Inform you) our River Still has kept so free of Ice that Ships may Depart and we flatter our Selves that we will be able to get your Brig2 Away in Eight Days from this as we only wait for a little wheat in the After hold to be able to Complete her load there is now on board one hundred &...
Date: 21 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Messrs. George and Thomas Hooper, H. Blackmore, Arthur Mobson and Peter Mallett, reported sundry negroes, imported by them since the 1st day of December last.
Resolved, That notices be sent to Messrs. George and Thomas Hooper, Hinall Blackmore, Arthur Mobson, and Peter Mallett, to re-ship, by the first opportunity, the sundry negroes they have imported since the 1st day of December last. It being...
Date: 21 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
. . . Your Lordship will be pleased to observe, in my letter No. 7. of 23d Sepr I mention in it, to your Lordship, that I had wrote, to the Commander of His Majestys Fleet at Jamaica, that a Vessel might be sent, to inspect along the Coast; I also wrote, to Governor Chester at Pensacola to apply to the Commander of His Majestys ships there, that no illicit trade might be carried on by the...
Date: 21 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Gentlemen This Vessel is in the Road waiting. I have therefore only time to say, that I have this moment reced a Letter from London, mentioning, that in a debate last friday [January 20] in the House of Lords on Lord Chatham's Motion to withdraw the Troops from Boston as a conciliatory Step ー The Ministry declared, through Lord Suffolk, that they are determined to embrace no conciliatory...
Date: 22 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Jany 1775
Monday 23d
P M Fired 2 Nine Pounders shotted & brought too a Ship from St. Christophers, Impress'd two men from her.
Date: 23 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Diana Schooner sailed with a party of the Kings own Regiment on board2 to the Succour of a Number of well affected Inhabitants of the Town of Marshfield, and had Orders to proceed to North River and there to remain eight days or longer if the Magistrates should request it and there should be a necessity for so doing.
Date: 23 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A Detachment consisting of . . . 100, embarked this afternoon on board The Armed Schooner Diana, and the Sloop Britannia, with 7 days provisions, thier Barrack bedding, a few necessaries, and baggage sufficient for ten or 14 days. This Detachment is under the Command of Captain Balfour of the 4th Regiment and is going to some town on the Coast not far distant.
Date: 23 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
This day at 3 oclock P.M. a Detachment of 1 B., 3 S., 4 S., 4 C., 2 D., 100 P., embark'd on board two Vessels, to go to a Place called Marshfield about 30 miles from hence; it is in consequence of about 200 People there having declar'd themselves for Government, for which the People of Plymouth have threat'ned to attack them and force them to their measures, as they sent to the Commr. in Chief to...
Date: 23 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Lord I have the honour to enclose to your Lordship, the account of produce exported from this province, by the Betsey Captain Lofthouse . . .
There can be no doubt of the success of this province. The articles suitable to the climate and soil, are of the most valuable sort. They are such as may be of the greatest advantage to England. We only want inhabitants, my Lord, and a little industry....
Date: 23 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
1775.
23d [January]
The King's pleasure was signified by Lord Rochford to provide Transports for carrying to Boston the 35th 49th & 63d Regiments of Foot, the 17th Regiment of Light Dragoons and 500. Drafts & Recruits with 40 Officers and 26. Noncommission'd Officers, ー And, on the next day, Orders were given accordingly.
28th [Do]
Vice Admiral [Samuel] Graves was directed to...
Date: 23 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
That the petitioners are all essentially interested in the trade to North-America, either as exporters and importers, or as venders of British and foreign goods for exportation to that country; and that the petitioners have exported, or sold for exportation, to the British colonies in North-America, very large quantities of the manufacture of Great Britain and Ireland, and in particular the...
Date: 23 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Gentlemen I Recieved your 13th p Capt Chappel also of the 18th by post came to hand. I have now by the Sloop Macaroni, Shipt a Cargo of Melasses wich is very Good hope you'l git 2s for it. You must certainly send me Two hundred half Joaneses and Fifty barrels, of Super Fine Flower att least. I shall send the Sloop to the West Indias as Soon as she Returns, & beg you'l dispatch her as Soon as...
Date: 24 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I wrote to you the 21st Inst to which Refer. I have not Yet got a Vessel for [James] Forde, but have some hopes of Getting one soon. the Hope is Full save 150 bals. which I hope to get in for her to Sail on Sunday I have not drawn a bill yet and only 60 Hhds on board on freight 50 bbls Bread 50 Do Flour 50 Hhds Seed & 1500 bushels wheat for the owner. the rest for our Selfs. which will go...
Date: 25 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
. . . our harbour has Continued open all this Winter so that we have not had A Ship detained one day & we are well Satisfyed that there never was so much Wheat & Flour Ship'd any one Winter as there was this & Chiefly for England & Ireland but mostly for England, as our Roads have been very bad these four Weeks past, on Which Acct Produce has been kept back from Market, we think...
Date: 25 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
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wednesday night about 12 o'clock they [the Americans] sat 2 of their shipping on fire and burnt them up
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thursday night they burnt one vessel and sat another on fire but it went out again
Date: 25 January 1775
Volume: Volume 3
In Compliance with the Request of the Honorable Committee appointed by the Honorable Assembly of this Colony, directing those who have sustained Losses by the Ministerial Army & Navy forthwith to render proper Accounts of the same to the Honr Joseph Palmer Esq one of the Committee appointed for that Purpose ー I the Subscriber do hereby render an Account of the Schooner Charlotte loaded with...
Date: 25 January 1775
Volume: Volume 3