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Thursday morning last arrived here from her station in Boston Bay, the Milford Frigate, Capt. [John] Burr.
Yesterday evening arrived here his Majesty's Frigate Brune, in 8 weeks from Portsmouth, and two transports, having on board a number of the Foot Guards and some Foreign troops.
Date: 2 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
To be Sold at Public Auction, at the House of Mr. Benjamin Burdick, in Marblehead, the 18th Day of July, Instant, The Ship Hope, burthen about 280 Tons, with her Boats and Appurtenances, now lying at Boston; and her Cargo, consisting of Powder, Fire-Arms entrenching Tools, of all Kinds, Carpenters Tools, of all Kinds, some Cordage, with a Vari[e]ty of other Articles, too Large to enumerate:1...
Date: 4 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
By a Number of creditable Persons who are arrived in Town from Halifax, which Place they left the 13th ult. we learn ー that Gen Howe, with upwards of 140 Sail of Men of War, Transports, &c. with about 8 or 9000 Troops on board, sailed from thence three Days before they came away, supposed bound for New-York. ー That, in this Fleet went fourteen volunteers under the command of Capt. Stantan [...
Date: 4 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Last Saturday was carried into Cape Ann, two Ships, taken in the Gulph of Florida, by Capt. Henry Johnson, of this Town, in the Yankey Privateer; and last Tuesday they were brought round to this Place. One is a fine Ship, 300 Tons burthen, commaned by James Hodge, bound from Jamaica for London, with upwards of 400 Hogsheads of Sugar, 200 Puncheons of Rum, 16 Packs of Cotton, and a Quantity of...
Date: 11 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Messieurs Printers, In your paper of the 25th instant you mention, "last Sunday a ship of 200 tons burthen, commanded by James Arnout, was sent into this harbour by Commodore Hopkins, &c." In the same paper, we observe that a certain Caleb Hopkins, who calls himself "Commander of the armed ship called the George, &c." has libelled the ship called the Queen of England. We are greatly...
Date: 2 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
To be Sold by Auction, At the House of Mr. Benjamin Burdick, in Marblehead, the 29th Instant, The Ship Ann, with her Boats and Appurtenances. Also a Quantity of Bread, and many other Articles.
Date: 8 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Saturday night last [August 10] arrived below, and Sunday morning came up to town, his Majesty's frigate Liverpool, from Head-Quarters, and brought in with her a Jamaica ship, and an Antigua brig retaken; also, a Philadelphia sloop bound to some part of New-England.2 We are informed that General Howe and the Army under his command are encamped on an Island near New-York, called Staten-...
Date: 13 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Wanted Immediately.
A Doctor to go on a Cruize for three Months, on Board of a fine Schooner mounting 8 Carriage Guns and 60 Men. Any Person applying to the Printers, will meet with good encouragement.
N.B. Said Schooner is private property.
Date: 14 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Yesterday se'nnight was sent into Portsmouth by the Hancock Vessel of War, belonging to the State of Pennsylvania, a large three-decked Ship, named the Reward, of between 5 and 600 Tons, (She was a 20 gun Ship last War, in the British Service,) now mounting 14 Guns; was from Tortola, bound to London, and had on board between 10 and 1100 Hogsheads of Sugar, 12 Bales of Cotton, and several Pieces...
Date: 15 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
A Jamaica Guinea Ship, with 7 Hogsheads of Sugar, 8 or 9 of Rum, and Seven Thousand Dollars, is taken by a Privateer from Maryland, and safe arrived in Port. Also, a New England brig from Martinico.
By the Eastern Post we are informed, that on Monday last arrived at Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, a Vessel from Holland, with dry Goods, Drugs, Spices, &c.
Last Thursday, was sent into Marblehead, by...
Date: 22 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
On the 26th Inst. Capt. [William] Nott, of the Privateer Sloop Broome, of New-Haven, arrived at Dartmouth with 4 valuable Prizes, viz. ー the Ship Charming Sally, John Stell, Captain, bound to Europe from Dominica; had on board 465 Hogsheads, 31 Teirces, 35 Barrels of Sugar and 25 Tons of Fustic: ー The Snow Ann, John Bowes, Captain, from Tobago to Lancaster; had on board 169 Hogsheads, 20 Teirces...
Date: 29 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Our last Accounts from Halifax say ー They left there 40 Sail of Vessels, Prizes, &c. ー
Sails for London, from Halifax, in the Princess Royal Jamaicaman, Robert Hollowell, Nat Mills, Printer, Margarett Draper and Family; George Deblois, Sam Rogers, Sam Hughes, John Atkinson, the Miss Cummings's; and Justice Cutler of New-Hampshire.
Captain [Daniel] Waters, in the Lee Vessel of War, has retaken...
Date: 5 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
An authentic List of the Naval and Military Force, in the Province of Nova-Scotia, August 13th, 1776, collected from the best Authorities in said Province.
In the Harbour of Halifax, the Milford and Liverpool Frigates, of 28 guns; the Brig Hope, of 12 Guns; the new Sloop of War, fitting out, called the Albany (late the Rittenhouse, belonging to Philadelphia) to carry 16 Guns, Mowatt, Commander....
Date: 12 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Governor Wentworth has left his Retreat at the Mouth of Piscataqua River, and taken Refuge in Boston.
Date: 7 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
A Ship of about 260 Tons, commanded by Capt. Flagg, laden with Lumber, &c. which sailed from Portsmouth, the Beginning of last Week, for the West-Indies,1 was met with and taken by the Lively Man of War, the Captain of which put two Officers and five Sailors on board her, in order to carry her to Boston. Soon after a Privateer from Beverly luckily came across the Ship, as she was...
Date: 13 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Five or six impressed Seamen, we are informed, had the good Fortune to make their Escape from the Enemy last Monday Night [September 18]. One of them informs that the Sailors on board the Men of War are very sickly, and almost all of them very feeble and greatly emaciated, owing to bad Provisions.
Date: 21 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Last Monday [October 2] arrived in Piscataqua River a ship from England, intended for Boston.1 It appears that the Day before her Arrival she was in Company with the Raven, Man of War, bound to the same Place, but parted with her in the Night. Meeting with a Fisherman, to the Eastward of Cape-Ann, the Crew requested some Directions what Course to steer for Boston; the honest Fisherman...
Date: 5 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Last Tuesday [October 10] one of our Privateers from Beverly,1 having been on a Cruize in the Bay, was followed, on her Return into Port, by the Nautilus Man of War. The Privateer run aground in a Cove a little without Beverly Harbour, where the People speedily assembled, stripped her, and carried her Guns, &c. ashore. The Man of War was soon within Gunshot, when she also got...
Date: 12 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Since our last arrived in town the Honourable Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Lynch, and Benjamin Harrison, Esquires, from Philadelphia, a Committee from the Continental Congress; the Honourable Matthew Griswold, Esq; Deputy Governor and [Nathaniel] Wales, Esq; of Connecticut; the Honourable Nicholas Cooke, Esq; Deputy-Governor and Commander in Chief of Rhode-Island; and the Hon. John Wentworth, Esq;...
Date: 19 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
We hear the sloop Grampus, John Brakett [Bracket], master, loaded with bread and flour, bound from Baltimore to Cape Cod, on Tuesday last [February 15] fell in with, and was taken by a number of armed vessels (part of the British navy) off the Race Point; they took out of the sloop the master, mate and all hands except one, and put in their place one midshipman and three seamen, and directed them...
Date: 22 February 1776
Volume: Volume 4