American Theatre from May 1, 1777, to May 31, 1777
Resolved, That fifty blank commissions for private ships of war, with an equal number of instructions and resolutions of Congress for taking or destroying the vessels of the subjects of Great Britain, be delivered to the committee for foreign affairs, to be by them transmitted to the commissioners at the court of France.
Ordered, That the committee for foreign affairs revise the commissions for... Continue Reading
Date: 1 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
We embrace this opportunity by Your returnd express, to acknowledge receipt of your favor of the 26th. Ult. the multiplicity of business before congress, made it impossible to dispatch the express sooner than has been done.
We have the honour to inclose your Excy coppy of the Resolutions of Congress respecting Capt Nicholsons very indecent & Imprudent behavior, to your self & Council as... Continue Reading
Date: 1 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I have seen with a good deal of Concern, what appears to me an unfortunate dispute between Your Excellency and Capt Nicholson in Consequence of his having followed the example of his Brother officers who have for some time been Impressing Men into the Naval Service of the Continent in this Port —
The practice of Impressing Seamen cannot be supported on any other principle than Necessity and I am... Continue Reading
Date: 1 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
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Date: 1 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
1776 Dr
The State of Maryland to John Gibbons
Novr the 12
To Cash paid as Pr Bill for Sundries
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To Cash paid Thomas Creighton as one Months
Advance on Board the Schooner Friendship
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To Cash paid Joseph Meekings for Do
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To Cash paid John Creighton for Do
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To Cash paid Isaac Dawson for Do
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To Cash paid John... Continue Reading
Date: 1 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Some of the Gondola's are applying for Rigging, and we mean to give them all the assistance we possibly can, Last Fall when the Council of Safety applied to us the Price was £3.15. ー it has now rose to £7.10, and is still advancing, as we wish to avoid any dispute we thought it nece~ry to give you this Information before we deliver the Cordage, and if you chuse to be furnisht at the same Price we... Continue Reading
Date: 1 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Deserted from the Comet Brigantine of War, the following Men, viz. James Stevens, a Scotchman, his hair of a sandy colour, and is much pitted with the small pox and freckled; James Mitchell, about 5½ feet high, of a brown complexion, pitted with the small pox, is a Scotchman, and about 24 years of age; James Housen, an Irishman, a taylor by trade, is very pale, and has a sickly appearance; John... Continue Reading
Date: 1 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I have received the letter you wrote me Seven Leagues from this City; 2 and supposing that you would arrived soon, I did not immediately attend to its Contents; which I have now done, perceiving that you are still detained by contrary Winds.
I have considered the reasons you give me for having detained the two Vessels, and find with great pleasure that no hostile intentions towards my... Continue Reading
Date: 1 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Thomas Thompson Esq. to Benj Partridge
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Contents Recd 2d May 1777. of John Langdon Esqr
Date: 2 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
The Brigantine Washington, Burthen about Ninty Tons is a privateer Mounted with Twelve Carriage Guns, Six Swivels, & Twenty Small Armes, Powder & all other Warlike Stores Sufficient for a Cruize of five month, also fifty bbs Beef & pork Twelve Thousand wt Bread, and all other Small Stores in Proportion, Navigated with Eighty men. Now Bound on a Cruize under the Command of Capt Manly,... Continue Reading
Date: 2 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
In the House of Representatives Whereas an Embargo was laid the 7th day of December last on all Vessels, excepting such as shou'd be fitted out by order of the United States or any of them, or by the Board of War in behalf of this State or such as may go Coastwise from one Harbour in this State to another,
And Whereas it is judged necessary that greater liberty shou'd now be granted than is set... Continue Reading
Date: 2 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Agreeable to your Request I made application for some Copper Nails which I have Engag'd and shall forw'd them p the first Opportunity-Also for some Cloath which is not to be had at present but expect as there is French Ship now Unlading with Good[s] shall be able to Procure what you are in want of untill then shall rest you[r] assured Friend and [&c.]
Date: 2 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
On the 19th of last Month the Brig Grog, Capt. [Samuel] Smedley's third Prize, arrived at Plimouth: She belonged to a Fleet of 32 Sail, that sailed from Corke, bound to the West-Indies. Her Cargo is as follows, viz. 309 Firkins of Butter, 400 Barrels Beef, 70 Tierces Ditto, 46 Barrels Pork, and 12 Half Barrels Ditto, 12 Half Barrels Tongues, 15 Kegs Tripe, 141 Barrels Herring, 45 Hampers Potatoes... Continue Reading
Date: 2 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
We are now at the second of May and as you have been detained so long for want of Men and may probably be some time longer before you get out to Sea we now direct that you embrace the first opportunity to push out and proceed for Cape Franc;ois delivering the Letters given you herewith to Mr Ceronio also the Cargo, after which you must not take in any Stores nor attempt coming back to this Coast... Continue Reading
Date: 2 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
The fitting the Row Callies is an Object we have much at Heart, as our and the Public Confidence is, in great Measure placed in them for the Defence of the Bay. We therefore wish you to forward their Rigging all you can. We are desirous the Public should be as cheap and well served as Individuals; we cannot expect it will be better; if you secure yourselves on a Rise, we expect to be benefitted... Continue Reading
Date: 2 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
May 1777
Thursday 1
The Somost part of Porto Rico SBE. 5 Leagues.
At 8 [A.M.] saw two sail in the NE. gave chase.
Fresh breezes and fair Weather.
[P.M.] still in chase. found ourselves among the sand Boars, bore up from them, Soundings from 3 to 13 fathoms, stood in for the chase, who finding it impossible to effect their escape, run her ashore, in the bay of Ance Jermain, under the direc... Continue Reading
Date: 2 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I arrived here on Friday last, after a passage of eight weeks. This country has undergone a variety of changes since I left it, and is now in a bad state, owing to a long spell of dry weather, and the want of an American trade, provisions of all sorts fetching an exorbitant price, to the hurt of many; and unless a speedy alteration, the consequences will be fatal to the planting business. We... Continue Reading
Date: 2 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Please to acquaint my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that the Trade from England under the Protection of the Eolus [Aeolus] Frigate and Sylph Sloop arrived safe at Barbado's the 12th April; with only one Vessel Missing; Captain [Christopher] Atkins falling in with the Seaford Cruizing to Windward of Barbados, ordered Captain [John] Colpoys to conduct the Trade bound to the Southern... Continue Reading
Date: 2 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I have received the Duplicate of Your Letter Dated the 5th February (Original not Yet received) acquainting me it is their Lordships Directions I should appoint Convoys to Sail with the Trade for England from St Christophers the 30th April; 15th June and the 1st August; and to accompany them to England: In Obedience to which I have appointed Captain [John] Chapman of His Majesty's Sloop Shark to... Continue Reading
Date: 2 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Disposition of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels under the Command of Vice Admiral Young at Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands with Abstract of Orders they are at present under—the 2nd May 1777.
Ships
Commanders
Where Stationed &ca
Portland
V:A: Young
Thos Dumaresq
Ordered the 31st March to proceed to Prince Ruperts Bay Dominica, to compleat her Wood and Water; and as soon as... Continue Reading
Date: 2 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
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