| Date |
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Purport |
| July 14. 1775. |
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(Secret) To cause all Ships and Vessels to be examined for Letters, and to send to their Lordships all such as contain any matters tending to aid, abet, or advise, the rebellious proceedings of the Kings Subjects in North America &ca &ca |
| August 21st |
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To take Capt Parker, and His Majesty's Ship Phoenix under my Command. |
| 26th |
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To cause all Ships and Vessels having on board Arms and Ammunition to be seized, and brought into Port, and that all Licences granted before the 23 August 1775 are revoked, and made void, &ca &ca |
| 31st |
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Copy of their Lordships Order to Capt Bellew of His Majesty's Ship Liverpool. |
| 31st |
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To permit all such persons or their Agents (whom the Commander in Chief for the time being ashore shall Certify to have demeaned themselves as dutiful and loyal Subjects) to secure any Goods, Ware and Merchandize their Property, onboard any Vessels they may have procured for their reception; to give such protection to them as the Nature of His Majesty's Service will permit, and to grant the Owners of the Goods every Indulgence which the Law will allow. |
| Septemr 2. 1775. |
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To cause all Ships and Vessels belonging to the twelve United Colonies, or Owned by the Inhabitants thereof to be Seized and detained, except where it shall clearly appear from their papers, or from other Evidence, that they are bound to, or returning from, some Port or place in Great Britain, Ireland, or His Majesty's Islands in the West Indies. ー those with Arms and Ammunition not included in the above Exception, and to cause those seized in the Cases before mentioned, to be carried to some British Port, not within the twelve associated Colonies &ca |
| 7th |
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To encrease the Complements of the Ships of Twenty four, and twenty Guns, and also of Sloops, ー the Ships by the addition of twenty, and the Sloops by the addition of Ten Men each, and for such encreased Complements to be continued until further Orders. |
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Letters. |
| July 24. 1775. |
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That the Navy Board are directed to send a flat bottomed Boat, in each of the Vessels hired to bring Provisions for the Squadron in North America, to be disposed of as I shall direct. |
| 25. ー |
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Acknowledging the receipt of my Letters by Mr Nichols, and Captain Chads, acquainting me with the Names of the Ships their Lordships have been pleased to Order out, as a reinforcement to me, that Rear Admiral Shuldham will proceed in the Chatham to serve under my Command, and that Captain Arbuthnot is Appointed a Commissioner of the Navy to reside to Halifax, for the better Superintendance of His Majesty's Naval Affairs in North America. |
| August 9th |
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That the Navy Board are directed to cause Twenty flat bottomed Boats to be sent to Boston by the Transport Vessels that are taken up to carry five Regiments of Foot from Ireland to Boston, to be employed as I shall direct. |
| 23d |
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Mentioning that an Order of the 24th of July and two Letters, one of that days date, and the other of the day following inclosed, were intended to be sent in the Folkstone Cutter, but that they are now forwarded &ca |
| September 5th |
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To cause the Private Marines to be landed from the Ships Ordered to England, ー until the Battalions ashore, are compleated to One thousand Private Men. |
| 6th |
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Acknowledging the receipt of my Letters of the 16 & 18 July, and containing their Lordships directions, with respect to Ships and Vessels going home upon the requisition of the Governors of His Majestys Colonies without my Orders, ー That the Lizard convoys the Jacob Storeship with Arms, and Military Cloathing and Stores for Quebec: ー And the Liverpool the Maria Storeship laden in like manner for Virginia &ca |
| 7th |
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With a Box containg fifty Impressions of Mr Des Barres Chart of the Harbor of Boston, with as many Copies of the Nautical directions, to be distributed to such of the Ships and Vessels under my Command, as I shall judge proper. |
| September 8th |
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Acknowledging the receipt of my Letters of the 24th 28th & 29th July, by Colo James. |
| 8th |
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With two Warrants Appointing the Revrd Mr William Walter to be Chaplain of His Majesty's Ship Centurion, and the Revrd Mr Samuel Seabury, now at New York, to be Chaplain of the Renown, to deliver the said Warrants upon their qualifying, and producing Letters of Ordination and paying to my Secretary 10s/ the established fee for which he is to be accountable to the Admiralty Office. |
| 8th |
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With 50 Copies of His Majesty's Proclamation of the 23rd of last Month, for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition, and containing their Lordships directions to cause the same to be made as publick as possible. |
| 9th |
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To cause the Men belonging to the Ships and Vessels seized and detained, to be distributed among the Ships to Complete their respective Complements, and to bear the remainder as Supernumeraries until farther Order. |
