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We hope this will find you safe & happy at Baltimore, after the fatigues & Dangers of a long Winter Journey.
Presuming a Sketch of our proceedings since you left Boston will be agreeable we take this opportunity to inform you we dispatch'd the Penet about 3 Weeks since, — The Versailles about the same time for Nantz — The Duc de Chartres, Capt [Alexander] Wilson sail'd 14 days since for...
Date: 15 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
War-Office,
Boston 16 April, 1777
We have rec'd your favour of the 6th March & agreeable to the Expectation of an Express from us which you therein mention, we have sent Mr John Appleton the Bearer of this, & have remitted you by pim the four thousand pounds which you were apprehensive you might want ー We have also sent by him ー 9111 Pounds, ー which we suppose sufficient to purchase a...
Date: 16 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
The Board of War have the Pleasure of congratulating you on the Arrival of the Brig Penet at the Eastward from Nantes in 43 days — Capt [Nicholas] Bartlett sent an Express informing of it — but for what reason we know not, he has detain'd whatever Letters he may have brought for either of us; — In the Penet Capt Chapman of our Ship Versailles came Passenger he arriv'd in 45 Days in France, &...
Date: 24 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
We have the Pleasure to forward your Letters from France with our Wishes that the Intelligence the[y] contain may be agreeable, — That you may see the State of our Correspondence with your House we inclose Copy's of the Letters rec'd from them — The two Large Ships with Lumber & Spars will sail soon, but the utter impracticability of engaging Seamen in this Town has hitherto prevented our...
Date: 27 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9