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. . . our harbour has Continued open all this Winter so that we have not had A Ship detained one day & we are well Satisfyed that there never was so much Wheat & Flour Ship'd any one Winter as there was this & Chiefly for England & Ireland but mostly for England, as our Roads have been very bad these four Weeks past, on Which Acct Produce has been kept back from Market, we think...
Date: 25 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We had the pleasure of writing you under the 8th of last Decem a Copy of which you have Annaxed; to which plase be Referd. since then have Recvd Sundry Copys of your orders for Wheat to our G. Salmon, and note the Contents. we find it Impossible as yet to get a Vessel for your port. had it been in our power, we would had one of your Cargoes of Wheat well on the Way to you however if any Vessel...
Date: 1 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
By Sundry favrs of Mr Jas Forde of Dro[g]heda In which we have Recvd order for Wheat, he Requests our Informing you what we are doing for him. We can now Inform you that the Brig Henry & Joseph2
Henry Tickell Master is Arrived here from Liverpool with a Cargo of White Salt for Acct of Mr Jas Forde & the Restrictions on our trade from England hindering us to Even...
Date: 11 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We had the pleasure of writing you under the 1st Inst since then have not had the pleasure of hearing from you. we have now in our possession Yr Sundry favours to our G. Salmon which shall be Carefully attended to, and yr Interist we shall consult as if our own. we can now Inform you that tickell2 arrived here the 10th Inst his Salt in good order no doubt ere this you are Satisfyed it...
Date: 19 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
we have already wrote you that we sent 3660 bushells of yr Salt to Hallifax the Remndr we put on Board a Sloop for Georgia & when on board we sold it for 10d pence this Money p bushell say for 2500 bushells (this we though[t] would be more to yr advantage in the End tho we are obliged to give Six Months Credit) than to have shipped on your own Acct & we are sure that your salt will tum...
Date: 3 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We wrote you the 11th last Month Informing you of the Arrival of the Brig Henry & Joseph with Salt for Jas Forde Esqr in Dro[g]heda, & of our Intentions of sending the Salt to Hallifax & Loading the Vessel acct of Mr Forde. we Shipped 3660 bushells of the Salt for Hallifax on board the Schooner Betsy Isaac Snow Mastr the Remndr we Shipped for Georgia & Sold after it was Shipped....
Date: 4 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We now request as yr Gunsmith is making ten Musketts by my G.W. or[der] that you desire him to make the Bayonates the same as the Kings Troops. We also request that he will put good Locks on them & also that he may have them hear by the time agreed on. Mr Thos Jones Requests yr getting him a Gun made the same size of the ten he is now making the Bayonett to be the same as the one made for G.W...
Date: 16 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We wish matters ware onct settled between G.B. & these Collenys but from the last accts we se[e] little prospect. No doubt if the difference Subsists much longer but what the Collonies will suffer severely. but at the same time we think England will feel it much more, as here the real Necessarys of life for the poor will come much lower than in England & if the Collonys should hold out...
Date: 26 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Your Ship Baltimore Packet is now Ready for Sea under [your] Command. We have only to Request your Proceeding with her to [Falm]outh in England with the first wind & on your arrival there Imme[diately] write Messrs Johnston & Cumming of London, also as soon as you [receive] orders to Proceed to any one Port of Di[s]charge give them Information [so that] they may be able to make the...
Date: 24 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We this Day Recd a few lines from Mr C[lement] Biddle Incloseing yours of the 4th Inst in which you write him of the Accident of our Schooner Industry. We Cannot help Blameing Capt [James] Green Very Much in Many Respects, but in nothing so much as in laveing the Vessell in the Situation She was in & Comeing to Philada, ー however these Matters you must take no notice off but Endeavour to get...
Date: 8 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Annexed you have Coppy of what we wrote you the 8th Inst under Cover by Privet hand to Mr C[lement] Biddle. yesterday we recd your favr of the 9th Inst and note the Contents. we are Surprised you had not recd ours And that we had not an Answer from you Ere this, but much more that yours of the 29th of May is never Come to hand. the bill Shall meet due honour & are thankfull to you for the...
Date: 20 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
we send you by this opportunity Sundrey Newspapers, which will give you a More Extensive Vew of Affairs than we could write we wish Matters had not gone Such Lengthes as we fear the breach will be long off Haleing. however We believe Government still thought the people here would not fight, but be Assured they are much Mistaken, and if government will Continue to Send out troops, we think there...
Date: 29 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
business is Nearly at an End, as there will be nothing done after the 10th Septr Save a little Smugling and we make no doubt if you and your friends would try a Small good going Vessell, to be here in December that she might get Safe. if the Master was Cliver & well Acquainted here the Cargo would do best from Russia to Consist of Russia Sheetings Powder &c &c of which our G[eorge] S[...
Date: 31 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Our publick papers will give us [sic you] a perticuler acct of our troubles here, however you need not [be] Affraid of us Giveing up our libertyes, when all the English troops that is yet Come out, have not Deard to Penetrate one foot into the Country beyond the reach of the Men of Warrs Guns, & tho the[y] drove the Countrey people from Bunkers hill, the English troops were so well Swetted,...
Date: 31 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
we shall as soon as the Brig gets away, make out Your Acct & Get all settled to satisfaction. Mr. Russell is Arrived in Town, he got all safe Landed at Indian River, and is now a getting them over he had five Tons of Powder in which will be some help. he goes out again for the same Consern, & we think we Can get You any sum in Your Share (at present we are only £ 50 and do not mean to...
Date: 14 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
With the Brig Rogers, now Under Your Command (being Ready for sea since the 11th of this Month) we desire You may directly get Under way, & proceed with her to Annapolis, and there go on shore & wait on the Council of Safety, for their Orders where You are to proceed & Deliver your Cargo, and when You Receive their Orders, let us know to what Place you are Bound that we may send...
Date: 23 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
...the Brig Rogers now Returned from Annapolis and what will be done with her we Cannot tell, as there are three men of war in our Bay as high as Rappahannock & by Express from Williamsburg we learn that all the Norfolk fleet is in Our Bay, and above York River, ー but what their Design is we Cannot tell, however Your Brig Cannot go Under the present Situation of things, at the same time we...
Date: 1 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
John Pringle ー Your favr of 4th now before us & Contents noted, our G[eorge] W[oolsey] is now ordered to Annapolis a Second time about the Brig,2 we suppose to Unload here, but we shall not agree to that Untill we hear further from You. Unless the[y] Pay us the freight and for any time Longer she has been in their hands, than she Could have made her Passage to the West Indies ...
Date: 8 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
we Request You will find us two tons more of Rod Iron,...& four good swivells, for a Little Private Tear we are fitting out here,2 would be a Trifle Concearned if You wd we think we Could get You in, if Possible send the Swivels Immediately as they are much wanted...
our G.W. has been at Annapolis about Unloading the Brig,3 but has done Nothing, our Council offers (but...
Date: 15 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
we Wrote You Last when we thought the Brig was Ordered to [sail] but are not Positive.2...[Thomas] Russell goes this day if You want to write by him You must send it to Indian River where perhaps You may be time Enough,3 Could you get us a few Pistolls & two or three Bolts of Canvass Let us know & what the Price will be,4
Date: 18 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5