Catherine, Thomas Allen, commander; Takes in her cargo at Newport,
and will be ready to sail by the 12^{th} Day of January.—For freight
or passage, apply to said Captain on board or to Mr. Benjamin
Greene, in Newport.
PROVIDENCE, Nov. 7, 1766.
June 15, 1772, the Newport _Mercury_ notes the arrival at Newport of
“the brig _Joseph_, Captain Pie, bound to New York in 49 days from
Waterford in Ireland.” July 19, 1773, the same paper states that “Last
Thursday arrived the brig _Sally_, Capt. John Murphy, in 30 days from
Jamaica.” She brought several passengers. This was probably the _Sally_
that at another time is mentioned as having reached Dublin under Captain
Davis. The Providence _Gazette_, February 24, 1776, has this interesting
note: “Arrived from Ireland, but last from Barbadoes, the sloop _N.
York_ packet, Capt. John Freers, who informs that the people in Ireland
and Barbadoes are very warm in the cause of America.” The _Gazette_ also
published the following: