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In addition to the Order of this date from my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty (which you will receive herewith) for proceeding to the Carolinas, Georgia & East Florida; I am commanded by their Lordships to signify their direction to you to engage, upon your arrival at those Provinces, as many Pilots as you can who may be acquainted with any part of the Coasts thereof, and to keep them on...
Date: 21 November 1775
Volume: Volume 3
The Lords of His Majts Treasury having acquainted my Lords Commrs of the Admty that they have received undoubted information that Ten Vessels wch sailed about the middle of September last from the Port of Philadelphia for Ireland are engaged to go from thence to Russia & Hamburgh there to take on board coarse Linnens of different kinds which it is intended they should land in the River...
Date: 21 November 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Having laid before My Lords Commrs of the Admty your Letter of the_ 18th Inst transmitting a Copy of One the Lords of the Treasury have received from the Commrs of the Customs relative to two Vessels that had been hovering in Exeter Bay supposed to have come from France or Holland with Ammunition for America; I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you that directions were given to the...
Date: 21 November 1775
Volume: Volume 3
The Commrs for Victualling being directed to send to Boston on hoard the Albion Victualler a quantity of Potatoes & other Vegetables, also on board the Prs Augusta Victualling Sloop a Quantity of Sour Krout for the use of His Majestys Ships under your command And His Majesty having been pleased to signify His Pleasure that the whole thereof shall be issued as his Gift to the Crews of the said...
Date: 21 November 1775
Volume: Volume 3
The Lords Commrs of His Majts Treasury having this Day transmitted to my Lords Commrs of the Admty an Extract of a Letter from Port L'Orient containing some Intelligence of a Philadelphia Vessel consigned from hence to Messrs Botards [Berard Freres & Co.] of that Place for a Cargo of Salt Petre I am commanded by my Lords to send you a Copy of the said Intelligence for your information that...
Date: 21 November 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your Excellency's letter of the 3d ultimo enclosing a Memorial of the Officers belonging to the Two Battalions of Marines serving in America and expressing Your wishes that the Vacancies which had then happened might be filled up by the Officers on the Spot; I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you that they have had an attention...
Date: 24 November 1775
Volume: Volume 3
I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to send you herewith a Copy of some late Intelligence which has been transmitted by Mr Mathias to the Earl of Suffolk, One of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, in relation to a Ship said to be laden with Warlike Stores for the Rebels in North America by Captain Slander, and to have been on the point of sailing from Gluckstadt...
Date: 28 November 1775
Volume: Volume 3
I have communicated to my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your Letter of the 27 Instant, representing that if agreeable to their Lordships orders the Petty Officers belonging to the Experiment and Renown, who came home in the American Vessels are sent out with the Seamen to their respective Ships, there will not be any persons left for Evidences should any Trial commence concerning the said...
Date: 30 November 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Lieutenant Tonken, Agent for the Transports, now in Milford Haven, having by his Letter dated the 27th past, informed by Lords Commissrs of the Admty, that a few days before, arrived in Dale Road, within that Haven the Commerce Brigantine, Thomas Rice, Master, from North Carolina, who spoke, with His Majesty's Ship the Lizard, with a Brig in tow dismasted, in Latitude 46°00 N.Longitude 48°30m...
Date: 1 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
I have communicated to my Lords Commrs of the admty your Letter of yesterdays date informing of the Falkland Brig, another of the American Whaling Vessels from Rhode Island bound to Falklands Island & seized by Capt [Robert] Keeler of the Experiment being arrived at Spithead from Fayal, and of the request of Capt [Mark] Milbank of the Barfleur to have Ten Days leave of absence on his private...
Date: 1 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Having communicated to my Lords Commrs of the Admty your Letter of the 29th past enclosing by the direction of their Lordships of the Treasury Copy of a Petition that had been presented to them by Messrs Rotch & Smith relative to the seizure of Five Vessels of their property by the Commanders of His Majs Ships the Renown & Experiment; And signifying their Lordships desire to be acquainted...
Date: 1 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Captain [Digby] Dent of His Majesty's Ship the Arethusa, who was ordered to cruize between Dungeness and the Coast of France, and is arrived in the Downs from his said Cruize, having informed my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that during his Cruize he spoke with and examined a variety of Vessels, but had not the least suspicion of any except a Dutch Snow american built of about 200 Tons...
Date: 2 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Inclosed I send you a List of Transports which arrived in the Downes on the 3d Instant, and remained there yesterday when the Post came away, and am Sr [&c.]
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Captain [James] Worth the Regulating Captain at Liverpool, having in his letter of the 27th past informed my Lords Commissrs of the Admty that a Bermuda built Sloop called the Active, John Osborne Master bound from South Carolina to France has been brought into Liverpool by Joseph Ring the 2d Mate who with three other English Men and two Dutch Men rose and took possession of her; And their...
Date: 2 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Having laid before my Lords Commrs of the Admiralty your letter of the 27th ultimo, acquainting them, by Lord George Germain's Directions, with the Information his Lordship had received respecting a Brigantine fitting out at Amsterdam, to be laden with Arms & Ammunition for the Rebels in North America; I am commanded to acquaint you, for his Lord ships' Information, that if it is His Majesty...
Date: 3 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
My Lords Commissrs of the Admiralty having receiv'd Intelligence that two French Ships were fitting out on the 21st of last Month either at Marseilles or Toulon, (believed to be at the former) that they were to be purchas'd or at least freighted by Mr Deane, to be laden with different sorts of Goods for the use of the Rebels; were to mount Vizt one 18 Guns, the other only 12 or 14 though she will...
Date: 6 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
My Lords Commissrs of the Admty having received a Petition from Benjn Evans, a Prisoner on board the Ocean, representing that He was master of the Brigantine Constant Friend taken by His Majs Ship Albion, arid praying as the said Vessel was a Merchant Ship not armed, or intended to be armed, that himself and Wm Conyers, a Boy who belonged to her, and is his near Relation, may be released; I am...
Date: 9 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Having laid before My Lords Commissrs of the Admty your Letter of the 9th Instant, desiring to know, as the Betsey Sloop, laden with Provisions, for the supply of His Majesty's Stores at Plymouth, was taken on the 2d Inst off the Boult, by an American Privateer, whether you should permit any Vessels lading with Provisions or Victualling Stores to proceed from London to Portsmo or Plymo or from...
Date: 12 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I have communicated to my Lords Commissrs of the Admty your Letter of the 10th Inst informing them of the Torbay being returned to Plymouth from a Cruize, also that the Nancy, the Ocean's Tender from Fowey, with two of the Rebel Prisoners, who made their Escape from the Blenheim; the George and Molly Tender, with thirteen newraised Men, and the Sherborne Cutter, are arrived at Plymouth; And that...
Date: 13 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you for Lord George Germain's information that since my Letter to You of the 12th instant respecting the India Ship lately purchased to serve as a Storeship, their Lordships have learnt from the Navy Board that it was their intention to send in her Twenty thousand Beds, which Lord Howe has represented to them to be much wanted...
Date: 14 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9