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Willing & Morris of Philada having writ to Mr Deane a Scheme for an Extensive & very proffita:ble Commerce, to be carried on between the Subjects of France, & those of G B. now in Rebellion — Mr Deane did actually engage Mr Tho. Walpole — Mess Bourdieu & Co Mr G Apth[ro]p — & others in London — Mess Delap of Bourdeaux — Mess —— (the Comp to which the Brig. Dickinson was Consd...
Date: 23 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I have this moment fallen upon the' exact state of the Busyness which is the immediate object of A Lee's journey to Madrid. The delegates at Paris, assisted by the Count d'Aranda, & the Weverial Minister I before described, had Adopted a scheme suggested by a M. de Rulle Cour to give the Congress an Establishment convenient for an admiralty Jurisdiction in Europe or rather Africa. The...
Date: 3 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
The two Ships which Mess Horneca, Fiseaux & Co, are building for Congress Account, but ostensibly for Messrs Le ray de Chaumont, Grand & Co at Paris — are of a peculiar construction, under the direction of a Chevr de St Louis, M. Bouck [Jacques Boux], formerly in the French Navy. They are to carry 30 Guns each; of 24 & 18 pounds Calibre on one Deck, & yet to be able to Load 1000...
Date: 10 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
. . . the N England Provinces have sent on a secret Expedition, five frigates — 2, of 32 Guns, 2, of 28 &1 — of 22. with 12 other Hired Privaticrs for 28 days — Mounting from 12 to 18 Guns.2 Some think Nfound Land, others Halifax or the Transports from England to be the Object. . . .
Date: 17 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
. . . I am assured, that fifty four sail have been taken, going from & to the Colonies, to & from St Eustatia in about Six Weeks; which has given the most sensible Shock to the Traders here — & stopped at once all the Adventures preparing for that quarter. . . .
Date: 5 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
. . .The Ship with Artillery at Marseilles has been pretendedly unloaded, but it is all a Trick — She will sail in a fortnight Orders are given, by Count Vergennes, that our Privateers shall be supplyed with Amunition &c, at Sea: & it is now resolved to vex England by every species of Contrariety. . . .
Date: 19 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
. . . .The instructions to Capt. Nicholson of the Lion Frigate,2 are that He shall regulate the Signals with the Captains of the other Ships But, in Case M. La Motte shall order a Convoy all the way to America, He is to take His Signals &Instructions from this Commander—His Orders are to proceed to Boston or the first safe port in N England. The other Captains have...
Date: 10 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11