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We have been in confusion here for two days, on account of an express from Boston, informing that two Regiments were coming to take possession of our Fort; by beat of drum, two hundred men immediately assembled and went to the Castle, in two gondolas, who on their way were joined by one hundred and fifty more, and demanded the surrender of the Fort, which Captain [John] Cochran refused, and fired...
Date: 16 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
Several letters by the last vessels from Great Britain and other parts of Europe, inform us, that immediately after the King's proclamation issued, prohibiting the exportation of arms and ammunition from Great-Britain, two men of war were ordered to the Texel in Holland, in order to prevent the transportation of those articles in English bottoms to America.
Date: 5 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Ship James, Capt. Watson, which arrived from Scotland within the Hook at 9 o'Clock in the Morning, the second inst. has neither landed her cargo, nor entered, as she did not arrive in the Time allowed by the Association of the Congress for importing Goods from Great Britain or Ireland, &c. She has been at Anchor since Saturday last [February 4] in our Bay, accompanied with a boat, on...
Date: 9 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
To the PRINTER.
Mr. [James] Rivington having in his last paper promised, that in a future one, would be published, a narrative of the conduct of Capt. Watson, of the ship James, lately from Glasgow; and as I conceive, from the general tenor of the publications in his paper, that if therein the narrative should appear, it will give very little satisfaction to any of the parties concerned, or to...
Date: 14 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On last Thursday night [February 16], the ship Beulah, Captain William M Bussell, arrived at the Watering place, about three leagues from this city, in nine weeks from London ー The Pilots, we are informed, were ordered not to bring her up, lest her being in the harbour should give uneasiness to the city. The same night, a sloop with some members of the Sub-committee of Observation and other...
Date: 23 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
PERSONALLY came and appeared before me, David Matthews, Esq; one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, for the City and County of New York, JOHN GRAHAM, Clerk to Robert and John Murray, of this City, Merchants, and being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, did depose and say: That he left this City on Sunday morning last [March 5], in Company with the said John Murray, and...
Date: 7 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
In consequence of the information received from Captain [Isaac] Sears, relative to the suspicion that some part of the cargo of the ship Beulah, had been unladed before she quitted this coast, the Committee of Observation for this town, met this evening, and made enquiry respecting the affair; and thereupon have to inform you, that it appears to them that a boat belonging to this town, did last...
Date: 10 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Committee of Observation of this town, have this day used their endeavours to make a further discovery, relating to the unlading part of the cargo of the ship Beulah, but are not able to give you the information they desire Samuel Lee, a Boatman of this town, employed and accompanied by Ichabod B. Barnet, Esq; (son in law to Robert Murray) appear from very strong circumstances, to have been...
Date: 11 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Gentlemen, Having been disappointed in our design of reshipping the cargo of the ship Beulah (lately arrived from London) in another bottom, by which we were great sufferers, and though we then conceived that such our design, if executed, would have been a compliance with the resolution of the Congress: We acknowledge that to alleviate in some measure the great loss we sustained, we have been...
Date: 13 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
SAMUEL Lee, of Elizabeth-Town, boatman, being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, deposeth and saith, that on Sunday the 5th inst. he (at the request of Ichabod B. Barnet, Esq:) sail'd from Elizabeth Town aforesaid to New York, in the boat or sloop he usually goes in, the said Barnet going as a hand with him; that he arriv'd there the same evening; that while they were on their...
Date: 13 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Inclosed I send you the affidavit of Samuel Lee, boatman, relative to the unloading part of the cargo of the Ship Beulah, which needs no comment.
I am, however, particularly desired by our Committee earnestly to request of your committee to protect Mr. Lee, as far as lies in their power, from any insults on account of this affair. He is a person well known here to be of good character, and who by...
Date: 14 March 1774
Volume: Volume 1
Gentlemen, The annexed depositions contain as full and candid an account of the transaction relative to the landing the goods from the ship Beulah, as we are able to give; in the doing of which, we have studied to give the Committee, and our fellow citizens, the utmost Satisfaction we are capable of.
John Murray being obliged to go to Elizabeth Town, to take an inventory of the goods, found the...
Date: 15 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
JOHN MURRAY, of the city of New York, merchant, being duly sworn, saith, that the above is a full, just, and true inventory of all the goods which were lately taken out of the ship Beulah, at Sandy-Hook by the Deponent, and were by him landed at Elizabeth-Town in New-Jersey.2 That the deponent did, yesterday [March 14], voluntarily make an acknowledgment to the committee of Elizabeth...
Date: 15 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
ROBERT MURRAY, of the said city, being duly affirmed according to law, doth declare and affirm, that so far forth as he is acquainted with the facts contained in the foregoing deposition, the same are true; and that he neither knows nor believes, that any more or other goods or things were taken out of the said ship Beulah, since her arrival here, than what are specified in the foregoing...
Date: 15 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Committee met by adjournment this evening at the Exchange.
Mr. [Francis] Lewis, from the Sub-Committee appointed to state the case of Messrs. Robert Murray and John Murray, respecting their having landed goods from on board the ship Beulah; report a letter from the Committee of Elizabeth Town to this Committee, which letter is in the words following, viz.
[Insert letter of March 10, 1775]
The...
Date: 16 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Since our last, sailed from this port for Boston his Majesty's Cutter Diana, Capt. [Thomas] Graves; with a large quantity of Dollars, squeezed from the traders of this port, for the maintenance of a band of --------------------
As every person that visits a place leaves a character behind him ー A correspondent remarks, that the Captain and crew of the Diana have left that of men who rode at the...
Date: 30 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Yesterday afternoon the King Fisher Sloop of War, weighed anchor and proceeded to the North River, in order to protect two Transports, which lately arrived here from Boston, to take in necessaries for carrying on the Siege of that Place.
On Tuesday arrived the Ship Earl of Dunmore, Captain [John] Lawrence, in a short Passage from London. and Yesterday, the Harriott Packet Boat, Captain Lee, in 7...
Date: 13 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The late Seizure of the Powder at the Magazine at Williamsburgh, has incensed the Inhabitants of that Province to such a degree against his Excellency Lord Dunmore, their Governor, that the Virginia Gazette, or Norfolk Intelligencer, of the 4th Instant, says, "His Excellency, the Governor, we hear, with his Family have retired on board his Majesty's Ship the Fowey, now lying at York, in...
Date: 18 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Friday night last [May 19] Capt. Reynolds arrived here from Portsmouth, in New Hampshire: On Monday the 15th instant, off Cape Anne, he was boarded by Capt Greeves,1 in a tender, who had come out of Boston the day before, and informed him that three transports arrived there the 6th instant from England, with troops, and that many more were hourly expected; that several vessels were...
Date: 25 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On Saturday last [May 27] a party of the American army at Cambridge, to the number of between 2 and 300 men, had orders to drive off the live stock from Hog and Noddle's Island, which lie near Chelsea and Winnesimmet, on the N.E. side of Boston harbour. ー From Chelsea to Hog Island, at low water, it is but a;bout knee high, and from that to Noddle's Island about the same ー The stock on the former...
Date: 27 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1