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I have the honor to signify my consent to your Excellency's requisition that the Supernumerary Marines to be landed from His Majestys Squadron under my Command, may, while they are on shore, be put on the same footing with the rest of the Soldiers as to their Pay an_d Provisions being satisfied for the reasons mentioned in your Excellency's letter of yesterday and from Major [John] Pitcairns...
Date: 22 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
Friday evening [December 16] sailed for Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, his Majesty's ship Canceaux, Lieut. [Henry] Mowatt, commander . . .
And, on Saturday evening sailed for the same place his Majesty's ship Scarborough, Captain [Andrew] Barclay.
Sunday arrived here his Majesty's ship Somerset, of 64 guns, Captain [Edward] Le Cras, commander, from England.
Date: 22 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
Snow all day. The Detachment not yet sailed; we hear it is to go to Rhode Island to bring away a quantity of Powder from a Vessel which has been drove in there, and which they are afraid to trust without a Guard.
Date: 22 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
Saturday last the Boyne man of war of 64 guns, and Asia, of 60, lately mentioned to have arrived from England, came up into this harbour, and are at anchor within musket shot of the town.
Date: 23 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
. . . we have received Accounts of an Attack made by a Number of People in New-Hampshire on His Majesty's Fort William and Mary in Piscataqua Harbour. There has been different Reports concerning this Transaction, but I transmit your Lordship Copys and Extracts of Letters that I have received from Governor [John] Wentworth upon the Subject. A Frigate and Sloop of War are now in that Harbour, and...
Date: 26 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
The Lively proceded to Salem Road to prevent smuggling the Importation of Arms Ammunition &c
Date: 29 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
I have lately been favoured with a Copy of Lord Dartmouth's circular Letter to the Governors of the respective Colonies upon this Continent, wherein he Informs them, that His Majesty has thought fit, by his order in Council of the 19th October 1774, to prohibit the exportation from Great Britain of Gunpowder or any sort of Arms or Ammunition & that it is his Majesty's Command that they take...
Date: 30 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
The Halifax Schooner went to her Station from Manahigan Islands to Passamaquody, with Directions to carry the Scarborough's Sails, now repaired, to her at Piscataqua.
Date: 2 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Last week the Marines, which lately arrived in the Men of War from England, commanded by Maj. [John] Pitcairn, were landed, and are now in Barracks at the North Part of the Town.
Date: 2 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
By an express from Captain [James] Wallace, Information coming of the Hinds Arrival very leaky in her Decks and Upper Works at Rhode Island, with Camp and Tent Equipage, and a Detachment of Marines for the Battalion at Boston,2 the Admiral ordered the Equipage and Detachment to be taken on board the Rose and the Hind to make the best of her way to join Vice Admiral [William] Parry at...
Date: 3 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The rebellious proceedings of the Rhode Islanders, in forming a Magazine of Arms at Providence, and seizing the Kings Cannon at Fort George, made the Admiral lay aside his Design of keeping the Swan at Boston, as Schooners could not be fitted for Service for some time to come; and he sent her this day for Rhode Island to be employed together with the Hope Schooner, by Captain [James] Wallace, in...
Date: 6 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
In a Letter dated the 19th of December, and sent by the Sloop Phoenix from Salem, I acquainted you with the Arrival of his Majesty's Ship Somerset on that day from Plymouth. This Ship with the Boyne and Asia are now moored before the Town of Boston, and I have the pleasure to say their Companies are in general very healthy; The Somerset was so leaky at Sea that two Hand Pumps were continually at...
Date: 8 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Since my last Dispatch dated the 8th instant two Courts Martial have been held; upon Captain [William] Maltby, and the Gunner of his Majesty's Ship Glasgow, I transmit Copies of the sentences and will send the originals by the first Conveyance of a King's Ship. The Court having dismissed Captain Maltby from the Command of the Glasgow, I have appointed Mr Tyringham Howe Commander of the Cruizer to...
Date: 15 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Diana Schooner sailed with a party of the Kings own Regiment on board2 to the Succour of a Number of well affected Inhabitants of the Town of Marshfield, and had Orders to proceed to North River and there to remain eight days or longer if the Magistrates should request it and there should be a necessity for so doing.
Date: 23 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A Detachment consisting of . . . 100, embarked this afternoon on board The Armed Schooner Diana, and the Sloop Britannia, with 7 days provisions, thier Barrack bedding, a few necessaries, and baggage sufficient for ten or 14 days. This Detachment is under the Command of Captain Balfour of the 4th Regiment and is going to some town on the Coast not far distant.
Date: 23 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
This day at 3 oclock P.M. a Detachment of 1 B., 3 S., 4 S., 4 C., 2 D., 100 P., embark'd on board two Vessels, to go to a Place called Marshfield about 30 miles from hence; it is in consequence of about 200 People there having declar'd themselves for Government, for which the People of Plymouth have threat'ned to attack them and force them to their measures, as they sent to the Commr. in Chief to...
Date: 23 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We have Information often from the Country that the Towns in this Province become more divided, notwithstanding the Endeavours used to keep up their Enthousiasm; and the Tyranny and Oppressive Acts exercised against Persons deemed Friends of Government, has driven them in Several Places to combine together for their Mutual Defence. Where the Majority in a Township has become averse to their...
Date: 27 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
To day orders were given for fourteen days salt provision to be embark'd for the Detachment at Marshfield; we hear from thence that everything is very quiet.
Date: 30 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Yesterday a Ship arrived at Marblehead which brought the King's Speech; the Whigs look very black upon it, but pretend to say it is the very thing they wished.
Date: 31 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Lively was ordered to lie in Marblehead Harbour a safer place at this Season than Salem Road.
Date: 6 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1