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I sent a Letter to the post Office for you last Saturday, but a Circumstance that happen'd last Evening, relative to our privateers, obliges me to write you again. ー As Capt Muckford, (the same that took the Prize Ship on Fast Day)2 was going out on another Cruize yesterday afternoon being accompined down the Harbour by the [Lady] Washington Privateer, Muckford got aground by Point...
Date: 20 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
My dear Sir The succession of Occurrences are so rapid in our Hemisphere; that it is difficult to relate what happen'd but six days since: I shall, however endeavour to give you what I can at present recollect, and for the future you may expect a weekly Journal, provided the aendemical desease of my habit don't prevent it ー This day week was bro't into Dartmo a Jamaica Sugar Ship containing 303...
Date: 10 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Agreeable to promise in my last I now send you a Journal of the last week & hope to continue it in future.
Monday 10th In the course of the Afternoon sundry Transports arriv'd to the Ships below with the Highland Troops on board under the convoy of 2 Men of War; Likewise receiv'd Intelligence that two Sugar Ships were bro't into Providence & New London, & a Barbadoes Rum Vessel...
Date: 17 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
...There is now in this Harbour two fine prize Ships, sent in by Capt [Henry] Johnson of this port, one from Jamaica for London, the other from Antigua for Halifax, the last of which, besides 400 & odd hhds of Rum, has on board 17 hhds that were not mentioned in her papers, & which were mark'd on the outside Jams, but contain English Goods, such as pins &c. ー we are fearfull Capt...
Date: 15 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
In the course of the week past we have had a number of our Eastern Wood Vessells taken by a Frigate & some Arm'd Vessells that are Cru[is]ing on the Eastern Shore & in this Bay; the Frigate that took three of 'em, put all the Crews aboard one of the Vessells & sent 'em off, after saying that they must not blame them for taking their Vessells as they were absolutely oblig'd to do it by...
Date: 29 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
My Dear Sir I[t] wou'd give me great pleasure & satisfaction to have a line now & then from Philadelphia so that I might peep into the Secrets & Mysteries of the Grand Book of Temporal Fate; but if I do not, my Weekly Journal will go on, such as it is, 'till eternal fate, prevents it.
Monday 29th Benja. Davis & others that were taken yesterday, landed at the Long Wharf from...
Date: 5 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
My necessary absence, last Monday, at my Island Hospital, prevented your having the weekly Journal as usual. ー I shall now send you the whole.
Monday 5th
Tuesday. 6th
No public occurrance of any kind in these day's.
Wednesday 7th
Thursday 8. Receiv'd your letter of the 30th ulto
Fryday. 9th This afternoon arriv'd here a large prize Ship from Granada, laiden with Rum Sugar & a...
Date: 19 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
... A Number of prizes have been sent into the different ports of New England since my last, 4 in at Bedford, one at Cape Ann, some at the Eastward & a number at Providence, chiefly West India men. ー The Spirit for Privateering is got to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, almost every Vessell from 20 Tons to 400 is fitting out here; they are in great want of Guns, but with what they dig up on...
Date: 9 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
My Dear Sir I have receiv'd your two Letters from Philadelpa & am conscious of an omission in writing, but I dare say you'll not impute to neglect when you are inform'd that I have had neither sleep to my Eyes nor slumber to my Eyelids since you left Taunton.
A number of Men of War & Transports appear'd off Bristol last Saturday & there demanded a quantity of Cattle & Sheep, upon...
Date: 10 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2