Excerpt from The Province Galley of Massachusetts Bay, 1694-1716: A Chapter of Early American Naval History Captain Thomas Dobbins, previously commander of the ship Nonesuch, was the first commander. He was at this time about forty-four years of age, and is said to have been a favorite of Governor Phipps, who was responsible for his appointment. In 1694, instructions, dated Boston, August 8, were given Captain J ohn Alden to embark on the Province Galley, Captain Thomas Dobbins, com mander, and proceed to Pemaquid to see ...
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Excerpt from The Province Galley of Massachusetts Bay, 1694-1716: A Chapter of Early American Naval History Captain Thomas Dobbins, previously commander of the ship Nonesuch, was the first commander. He was at this time about forty-four years of age, and is said to have been a favorite of Governor Phipps, who was responsible for his appointment. In 1694, instructions, dated Boston, August 8, were given Captain J ohn Alden to embark on the Province Galley, Captain Thomas Dobbins, com mander, and proceed to Pemaquid to see if any In dians had been talked with in regard to peace and re prisals, and also to go to Penobscot to see if any Indians were concerned in the murders there.' Captain Dobbins was succeeded later in the same year by Captain Samuel Mould, probably of Charlestown. Reports of seventeen French vessels being fitted out at Petit Goave in 1693 for the purpose of intercepting Eng lish vessels bound for the West Indies was the signal for renewed activities among the colonists. Lieutenant-gov cruor Stoughton, in a letter dated February 11, 1694-5, to the government of Connecticut, asking them to provide twenty able seamen for the Province Galley until the end of the summer of 1694, wrote, This Province is so dreyned of men by the calamities of the war, sickness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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