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William Jackson of this town, and Crean Brush of New-York, who were on board a brig taken the 3d instant by Capt. Manley,
1 are now imprisoned in the gao 1 of this town.
Date: 25 April 1776
Volume: Volume 4
Yesterday afternoon an express arrived at his Excellency the General's from Marblehead, with advice, that three men of war were seen off that harbour, and that it was apprehended an attack upon the town was intended. On the reception of this intelligence Col. Glover's regiment, with a company of artillery, were ordered to march immediately for that place.
Since the arrival of the above mentioned...
Date: 14 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Captain Martindale, in one of our privateers, was lately decoyed near to one of the enemy's ships of war, in the Bay, and was unhappily taken, and carried into Boston.
Captain Manly has, within a few days past, taken another valuable prize, a sloop from Virginia bound to Boston, loaded with corn and oats; fitted out and sent by Lord Dunmore. 1
Last Friday night [December 15] seven...
Date: 21 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
The following Gentlemen are appointed, and commissioned, by the major part of the [Massachusetts] Council, Judges of Admiralty for this colony, agreeable to an Act lately passed by the Gen. Assembly, viz.
Nathan Cushing, Esq; for the Southern district, containing the counties of Plymouth, Barnstable, Bristol, Nantucket, and Duke's County.
Timothy Pickering, jun. Esq; for the Middle district...
Date: 28 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
We hear from Newport, that Capt. Wallace, commander of the ministerial pirates, which have long infested that harbour, having received on board his ship, a number of Negroes who had absconded from the town, the Commander of the Colony troops thought of an expedient for giving him a check. Captain [William) Barton, with a party of men, was sent to Brenton's Point, from which Wallace usually took...
Date: 18 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Last Saturday [January 20] a vessel, filled with our distressed brethren of Boston, put off from that place, and landed her passengers at Chelsea, among whom were Capt. Andrew S[y]mmes, and Capt. John Dean. It is said a considerable number more were soon to follow.
Last Thursday [January 18] one of our cruisers, 1 commanded by Captain [Stephen] Mascoll, carried into Cape Ann a ship of...
Date: 25 January 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Last Monday [January 29] one of the Continental Cruizers got into a harbour to the eastward, having been chased by the Lively man of war, who fired about 170 shot at her. 1
A wood vessel, bound to Boston, was taken by one of our cruizers this week, in the Bay.
Last Thursday morning [January 25], Capt. Manley, being on a cruize in the Bay, discovered a ship a league or two S.E. of...
Date: 1 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
We hear, "that as Capt. Manly was coming out of Plymouth, January 30, an armed brig (which went from Boston for the purpose of taking him, as is supposed) 1 gave him chace; upon which he ran his vessel on shore, a little South of the North river, in Scituate. The brig came to anchor, and fired not less than 400 times upon the privateer; but, very remarkably, no man was even wounded....
Date: 8 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3