1776. |
Mar. 4, |
Henry Yelverton Price, charged with declaring himself a Tory, and inimical to the American cause, and not denying the truth of the charge, ordered to be confined in the County Jail, |
719 |
5, |
John Mitchell appointed Mustermaster to the Naval Armaments and the Artillery of the Province, |
719 |
6, |
Captain Brown ordered to raise fifty ablebodied men, for the Marine service of the Province, |
719 |
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His Instructions, |
720 |
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Second Lieutenants to the different Armed Boats appointed, |
720 |
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Captain Thomas Reed appointed second in command in the Naval Armaments of the Province, and Captain of the armed ship now building, |
720 |
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Survey of the Channel between Reedy-Point and the Pea-Patch, ordered, |
720 |
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Committee to superintend the Provincial Manufactory of Gun-locks, |
720 |
7, |
The Commodore directed to order down to Fort-Island three of the Armed Boats, to remain there until they are relieved, |
721 |
8, |
Application of the Secret Committee of Congress to lend them arms, cannot be complied with, as the Armed Boats are unprovided with arms; the Association is in a deplorable situation from the like cause, and the Province in general stripped of arms to supply the neighbouring Colonies, |
722 |
9, |
Captain Samuel Davidson appointed to command the Floating Battery, |
722 |
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Captains Richards, Falconer, and Reed, authorized to fix Signals for giving alarms at Cape Henlopen, and other proper places on the Bay and River Delaware, |
722 |
12, |
Guard ordered for the Jail; the Prisoners there, committed as enemies to the country, having raised a dangerous riot, assaulted the Keepers, and now stand on their defence, threatening to break the Jail and release all the Prisoners, |
723 |
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Guards ordered at the Powder-House, State-House, Fire-Rafts, and Magazine, |
723 |
13, |
Officers, prisoners of war, now in Philadelphia, required to repair to the places allotted for their residence by Congress, |
724 |
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The Chevaux-de-Frise, built at Gloucester, to be placed at Fort-Island, |
724 |
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Thomas Forrest appointed Captain of a Company of Marines, to be employed on board the Floating Battery, |
724 |
14, |
Advertisement requesting information from all persons of Sulphur Ore, in this or any neighbouring Colony, |
725 |
15, |
The Commissary ordered to distribute two hundred and fifteen Provincial Arms between the four Battalions now in Philadelphia, |
726 |
16, |
Instructions to Captain Thomas Forrest, |
726 |
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Regulations of Pay and Rations of Officers of the Naval Armament, |
727 |
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Committees in the different Counties requested to suffer Mr. Smith to send the Arms he has purchased to Virginia, |
727 |
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Agreement with Thomas Bidwell for refining crude Saltpetre, |
727 |
18, |
Commodore Caldwell directed to send Officers on the Recruiting Service to New-York, |
728 |
19, |
Orders with respect to the Ammunition and Arms of the several Battalions in the City, |
728 |
20, |
Francis Feauss and Edward Yorke appointed Lieutenants to the Provincial Ship, |
729 |
21, |
Pay of Officers on board the Provincial Ship, |
729 |
22, |
Certificate to Messrs. Knight & Green, that they are authorized to import from North-Carolina six hundred barrels of Naval Stores, |
729 |
23, |
Committee to agree with William Henry for making two hundred Rifles, |
729 |
25, |
Thirty stand of Arms furnished the Brigantine Lexington, Captain Barry, in the Continental service, fitting out for the protection of the Trade of the coast, |
730 |
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Henry Yelverton Price discharged from confinement; but if found in the City after three days to be recommitted, |
730 |
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Committee to fix on proper places upon the River Delaware for erecting Fortifications, |
730 |
1776. |
Mar. 26, |
William Gamble appointed Captain to the Etna Fire-Ship, and William Greenway Captain to one of the Fire-Rafts, |
730 |
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Provincial Ship-of-War to be called the Montgomery, and the Floating Battery to be called the Arnold, |
730 |
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Information received that a Sloop-of-War with a Tender has entered the Bay, |
731 |
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Orders for the Armed Boats and the Artillery to prepare for the defence of the River, |
731 |
30, |
Committee to look out for two Vessels to sink in the passage between the Chevaux-de-Frise, |
732 |
31, |
Vessel sent to bring back McBean and Davidson, on their way to the Man-of-War in the Bay, with a Pilot-Boat, |
733 |
Apr. 1 |
Mr. McBean brought before the Committee, examined and discharged, |
733 |
2, |
Orders for the arrest of Samuel Sample, of Pittsburgh, suspected of a connection with Connolly, a prisoner in Jail, dangerous to the liberty of America, |
734 |
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Committee to procure a Vessel proper to fit out as a cruiser in Delaware Bay, against the Ministerial Armed Tenders now obstructing the commerce of this Province, |
734 |
3, |
Application to the Congress for proper Vessels to protect the Trade in the Bay of Delaware, now infested with Armed Vessels of the enemy, |
734 |
4, |
Pilot Boats prohibited from going down the River without a permit, |
735 |
6, |
Further provision for obstructing the Channel of the River, |
735 |
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Charles Lawrence appointed Captain of one tier of Fire-Rafts, |
735 |
8, |
John M. Fatridge appointed Second Lieutenant of the Floating Battery, |
735 |
9, |
Mr. Hillegas, Mr. Parker, and Mr. Rittenhouse, added to the Committee of Safety, |
736 |
10, |
Matthew Clarkson appointed Marshall to the Court of Admiralty, |
737 |
11, |
David Rittenhouse added to the Cannon Committee, |
737 |
12, |
Captain Alexander permitted to quit the service, being offered the command of a Continental Vessel, |
737 |
13, |
Committee to provide for building a Powder Magazine, |
738 |
15, |
Privateer Sloop Congress allowed a Pilot, on condition of his being landed at Cape May, |
739 |
16, |
Jacob Hans appointed Captain to one tier of Fire-Rafts, |
739 |
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List of Committees of the Committee of Safety, |
739 |
17, |
Parole of Richard Bogar and John Draper, Officers of the British Armed Vessel taken by Captain Barry, |
740 |
18, |
John Young permitted to purchase, to be conveyed to Virginia, as many Fire-locks as will complete one thousand stand, |
741 |
19, |
Committee to superintend the building of a Floating Battery, |
742 |
26, |
Application to the Congress for a few pieces of the heaviest Cannon taken by Commodore Hopkins, at Providence, |
743 |
27, |
Rev. David Jones appointed Chaplain to Colonel Shea and Colonel Waynes Battalion, |
743 |
29, |
Captain Read, with the Provincial Ship Montgomery, ordered down the River to join the Commodore with the Armed Boats, to attack the Roebuck man-of-war, |
744 |
30, |
Committee to inquire into the cause of the Armed Boats' returning, |
744 |
31, |
Sisterhood of Bethlehem present a quantity of Linen Rags for the benefit of such as may be wounded in the service of their country, |
744 |
CORRESPONDENCE, PROCEEDINGS, ETC.
Apr. 1, |
Letter from Maryland Council of Safety to Charles Beatty, |
745 |
1, |
Letter from Maryland Council of Safety to the Committee for Talbot County, |
745 |
1, |
Letter from Henry Fisher to Pennsylvania Committee of Safety: Several Vessels taken by the Kings Ship the Roebuck, and her Boats and Tenders, in Delaware Bay, |
745 |
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