Naval Documents of The American Revolution, Volume 1 ... - Ibiblio
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AUGUST 1775 1113<br />
came to at Port Royal; and dispatched away an Express to Charlestown,<br />
and at 3 P.M. we landed the powder.<br />
1. "Hatter's Report," Drayton, <strong>American</strong> <strong>Revolution</strong>, I.<br />
11 August<br />
JOURNAL<br />
August 1775<br />
Fridy 1 lth<br />
1. PRO, Admiralty 5 1/381.<br />
OF HIS MAJESTY'S BRIG Gaspee, LIEUT. WILLIAM HUNTER,<br />
COMMANDING<br />
Moor'd at Montreal<br />
at 4 A M Carried out the Bt Br to the Eastward, the Schooner<br />
came alongside, put our Guns and Provisions on board her at<br />
8 Hove <strong>of</strong>f into the Channel1 in 3 fms Weigh'd the Kedge, 5<br />
past Weigh'd & Came to Sail -<br />
Fresh Breezes wt Rain at 1 P M enter'd the Channel <strong>of</strong> Hat<br />
Island at 5 got thro' the Channel at 7 entered the Rapids at<br />
9 Came to wt the Bt Br in 4 fms Veer'd to y3 <strong>of</strong> a Cable, at<br />
10 Carried out the Kedge Anchor to Steady her - <strong>The</strong> Citadell<br />
<strong>of</strong> Montreal N W Dist f/2 a Mile St Helen's Island S E B S 1<br />
Mile.<br />
[Extract] Portsmo, N.H. August 1 lth, 1775.<br />
Sr Immediately after I received your Excellencys Letter <strong>of</strong> Yesterdays date<br />
(which was about 10 o'clock this Morn) relative to the Inhabitants <strong>of</strong> this<br />
Town fireing on Capt [Andrew] Barkley's Boat I sumoned the Council to meet<br />
at 12, but did not make a Quorum till this afternoon when the Council was<br />
Truely Informed that a Town Meeting was Immedately Notifyed & a very full<br />
Meeting <strong>of</strong> the Inhabitants appeared & regularly & Deliberately Pass'd a Vote<br />
with a large & uncommon Majority in which they disapproved the Transaction<br />
&c. your Excellency herewith hath the vote <strong>of</strong> the Meeting attested, and aIso the<br />
minute <strong>of</strong> Council.<br />
1. Bouton, ed., <strong>Documents</strong> and Records <strong>of</strong> New Hampshire, VII, 388; ibid., XVIII, 672, 673.<br />
Sir Head Quarters 11 th Augt 1775 : -<br />
By Order <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong> Commander in Chief I send to wait your Orders, an<br />
Officers Party to Escort Seventeen Seamen taken Prisoners at Machias, and One<br />
Tory, Ichabod Jones; thirty Prisoners more taken at Cape Ann, will be at Watertown<br />
to day. I believe you will think it best to Detain this party at Watertown,<br />
until that [from] Cape Ann Arrives, when they may have your Orders to what
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