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AUGUST 1775 1057
P S our powder from 3/6 to 3/9d that is purchast if aney to be had at windwd
is much dearer horses in great Demand molesses at 30 livers
I could a had the kings Stoar opend at Gaudloope but sold at 130 Johanna
pr thousand & ould Cannon powder, no Strunkt what I have got is the rear1 thing
I wish to my Sould you had it with you delay is dangerous you may look out for
me in a month Varey Stroung
1. Shaw Collection, Packet No. 3, YUL.
CAPTAIN HENRY BRYNE, R.N., TO VICE ADMIRAL JAMES YOUNG ;
Sir.
Pomona English Harbour Antigua the 3d August 1fi5
Having Cruised with His Majesty's Sloop under my Command off St. Croix
agreeable to your directions of the 10th June last, inclosing an anonymous Letter;
setting forth there was a Combination between that Place and the British Colonies
of America, and that he (the Writer) was informed they had Shipped from that
Place to America, a quantity of Gun Powder and Ammunition; - I am to
acquaint you it was wrote by George Curnmerford, who proves to be a Lunatick
and there is no foundation in his representation: The Governor of St Croix
declares there neither has been, nor will he suffer any to be shipped from thence,
am likewise to acquaint you there was a Schooner arrived at that place in order
to procure Gun Powder for America, offering any Money for the purchase, but
being acquainted the Governor had issued a Proclamation forbidding the exportation
of the same, and learning we were Cruising off that place, she sailed
again in three hours without shipping any one Article, but could not be informed
where she was destined. I am Sir [&c.]
1. PRO, Admiralty, 1/309.
Hen' Bryne
4 Aug.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
NICHOLAS COOKE, DEPUTY GOVERNOR OF RHODE
ISLAND l
Sir : Camp at Cambridge, August 4, 1775
I am Yesterday favored with yours of the 31st July; We have yet no certain
Accounts of the Fleet which Sail'd out of Boston the 25th; but if our Conjectures
and Information are just we may expect to hear of it every Hour. I am now,
Sir, in strict Confidence to acquaint you, that our Necessities in the Articles of
Powder and Lead are so great as to require an immediate Supply. I must
earnestly intreat you will fall upon some Measures to forward every Pound of
each in the Colony which can possibly be spared; It is not within the Propriety
of Safety of such a Correspondence to say which I might on this Subject; It is
sufficient that the Case calls loudly for the most strenuous Exertions of every
friend of his Country and does not admit of the least delay. No Quantity, however
Small, is beneath notice and should any arrive, I beg it may be forwarded
as soon as Possible; But a Supply of this kind is so precarious, not only from the
Danger of the Enemy, but the opportunity of Purchasing, that I have resolved
in my mind every other possible chance, and listned to every proposition on the