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their Distresses before were very great, and if renewed after their present supply
is exhausted, must be productive of very great advantages. I am Sir, &c.
1. Fitzpatrick, ed., Writings of Washington, 111,420422.
Sir Watertown Augst 14th 1775
This Court has received information that the Mail from Providence to
Newport, which contains Letters from the post Office at Cambridge, was intercepted
last week by a Man of Wars boat, in passing Conanicut ferry, and Several
of the letters taken out, your Honr is Sensible that it may be of the most consequence,
to have letters from these parts, fall into the hands of those who are
Seeking our destruction. We therefore request of your Honor, that some order
may be taken in your Government, that all Letters to or from the Post office at
Cambridge may be Conveyed by Land thro' your Colony, as far as it is practicable,
and that none be allowed to be Sent over the Conanicut ferry, -
In the House of Representatives August 14,1775
The within Draught is accepted - and Sent up to the Honorable Board for
Concurrence -
August 14th 1775
Sam1 Freeman Speakr Pr. temp.
In Council read & concurred
Perez Morton Secry pro temp.
1. "Nicholas Cooke Correspondence," AAS Proceedings, XXXVI, 266.
[Watertown] Monday, August 14, 1775
The Petition from the Inhabitants of Machias, and the Account accompanying
it, were read, and committed to Colonel Otis, Colonel Thompson, and
Mr. Gushing.'
Ordered, That Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Story, and Captain Goodman with such
as the honourable Board shall join, be a Committee to consult what measures can
be taken to cut off the communication of intelligence which is said to go to the
enemy by means of the Man of War at Portsmouth.
The Memorial from the Officers of the Eastern Regiment in the County of
Lincoln read, and committed to Mr. Rice, Colonel Orne, and Colonel Davis, with
such as the honourable Board shall join.3
1. Force, comp., American Archives, 4th, 111,328, from Mass. Arch.
2. Dated July 19, 1775.
3. Dated Aug. 2, 1775.
Boston Gazette, MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1775
Watertown, August 14.
We hear from Cape-Ann, that a Vessel bound in there from the West-Indies,
being discovered off that Harbour last Tuesday, [August 81, several of the inhabitants
went off in a Boat to assist in bringing her in. Soon after, about
30 armed [men], from the Man of War commanded by Capt [John] Lindzee,
boarded and took Possession of the Vessel; but she running aground on the Cape,