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AUGUST 1775 1207
Boxes, one of them compleat with Ball, 3 Powder Horns; all which
we took out of the Schooner except the Coffee and Cocoa; sent
2 petty Officers and 8 Men on board the Schooner to take Charge
of her: fired 2 swivels and brought a Sloop too. Little Wind
and Sultry Wr P M at 7 took a Sloop with 232 Bags of Coffee
on board, sent a Mids and 4 Men on board her.3
1. PRO, Admiralty 51/629.
2. The Tryal schooner, James Warden, master, condemned and sold at Boston in Sept. 1775.
See also Diary of Christopher Marshall, Aug. 24, 1775.
3. The Polly sloop, George Walker, master, from the French Islands, condemned and sold at
Boston in September, 1775. Graves's Conduct, Prize List, MassHS Transcript.
Tuesday August 22d 1775
Whereas there are several offenders against the Continental Association now
confined at Wilmington, it is resolved that an Express be immediately sent from
this Town to Wilmington, requiring the Committee of Wilmington to deliver all
such Delinquents as may be in Custody to a Guard directed to receive the same
and safely to convey such delinquents from County to County in the most expeditious
manner, that they may be brought before this Congress in order that
their Demerits may be strictly enquired into, with such papers as were found in
their C~stody.~
1. Saunders, comp., Records of North Carolina, X, 170, 171.
2. There is no further reference to this subject in the journal, so the presumption is that
Wilmington had no prisoners to forward. The actions of committees in cases of violation
of the Continental Association was to post them for the proper resentment of the
people.
Sir Beaufort 22d June [sic August] 1775
Capt. [Clement] Lampriere Spared me a barrel of Pork & a Barrel of ship
Bread, for the use of the Melitia when CalJd here to Guard the powder, but the
former not being used, was omited to be put on board the scooner that carried the
powder, have therefore put it on board a Scooner of Mr. Josiah Smith's & Requested
of him to Receive it for you - I am with Esteem Sir [&.]
D : DeSaussure.
1. South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, I, 189.
2. This letter is endorsed by Laurens: "Dan Desaussure 22d June 1775 - supposed to mean
August Recd 29th Augt"
[Extract] Council of Safety, Charles Town August 22d 1775
Dear Sir [Dr. George] Milligen has taken himself off; his flight was precipitate;
he skulks between the Fort & the Tamar; I dont know that he had any pressing
necessity for such a Manoeuvre, but undoubtedly he longs to be a great man, &