Volume 9
I desire you will acquaint my Lords Commissioners of the Admty, that I arriv'd here this day in His Majestys Ship, under my Command, having seen only one American Vessel, during the Cruize, a Schooner Privateer of eight Guns, which we chac'd under the Isle of Oleron, and I have since heard she went into Bourdeaux and has remained there ever since. My Letter of the 8th of June would inform their... Continue Reading
Date: 4 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
4th [July] this [day] recd Intelligence that Mr Phinehas Smith Our Sailing Master & Jona Knowlton Carpenter to the Doltin [Dalton] made an Elopement from the Royal Hospital — A fleet of 40 Sail of Merchtn Put into the Sound in Consequence of a Head wind, (Bound to America) this Day 12 Months the United States of America Declar'd Independent which they've Supported one year. God send they Ever... Continue Reading
Date: 4 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Yours of the 30th Ulto and 1st Inst are before us. Mr Morris were he present has not the least right to any direction of Capt Weekes or his prizes, & less so to Johnson or Nicholson, they are continental property, &are immediately under our direction, by the Express orders of Congress, and under no other persons.
Inclosed you have a letter to Capt Weekes and to Capts Johnson & ... Continue Reading
Date: 4 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I wrote you the 28th June advising of my Safe arrival at this Port also informing of the Success of our late Cruize & have now the Pleasure to Acquaint you of the Safe Arrival of Captain Johnston in the Brig Lexington at Morlax, I have wrote him & desired if he is not well Situated there to get a good Pilot & Come up here — I should be very Glad if you would let me know where you... Continue Reading
Date: 4 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I have The King's Command to transmit to Your Lordships the inclosed copy of a Letter I have received from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in which are expressed the Alarms given to the Merchants of that Kingdom from the late appearance of Rebel Privateers, and their apprehensions that some attempt may be made on the Shipping in the Port of Dublin, or other Places of Ireland, especially as the... Continue Reading
Date: 5 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I beg leave to inform Your Lordship that it is now confidently said that the Greyhound Cutter2 will be navigated from hence to l'Orient, Nantes, or some other Port at the other end of the Channel by a french Master &Crew, &that Cunningham & his People will go by land to join their Vessel. There are reasons to suppose that the Cutter will put into Havre de Grace, as I find... Continue Reading
Date: 5 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I omitted mentioning in my last that I had Drawn on you in favor of Messrs Montadouin for 1500 Livers at 8 days date which please to honor — Capt Hynson & myself will go to paimbeof tomorrow to Examine the Due De Chartres.2 I mentioned to you that her price was 68,000 Livers but that is the price offered for her the Owners Ask 70,000 for her this is a great deal of money but I... Continue Reading
Date: 5 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
My Lord — I have been honoured with your Lordship's letter of yester day from Hampton Court, for which I feel myself much obliged. Your Lordship's time is of too much consequence to be taken up in corresponding with me, but I must beg leave once more humbly to represent to your consideration the grounds upon which I have, in the name of the merchants, formerly applied and did lately apply to... Continue Reading
Date: 7 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
On the seventh day of July in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy seven personally came and appeared before me James Clegg Notary public dwelling at Liverpool in the County of Lancaster and also a Master Extraordinary of the high Court of Chancery John Wardley late Master of the Ship Grace belonging to Messieurs Brown Jones and Royds of Liverpool Merchants being a person... Continue Reading
Date: 7 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I request you will be so kind to inform me whether his Excellency my Lord Lieutenant has had any account horn the Lords of the Admiralty or whether the Merchants may expect a convoy for the protection of the Vessels — the want of which is very justly complain'd of by them & especially by the Linen Traders, as the Chester fair is now over & they have lost the opportunity of their Market,... Continue Reading
Date: 7 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Arrived the Prince George Tender, with the Grace West Indiaman, which was taken the other Day by an American Privateer2 in St. George's Channel, and ordered to France; but the Commander and most of the Seamen put on board her by the Privateer being English, heretofore taken by the Americans, and forced into their Service, instead of obeying the Orders they had received from their... Continue Reading
Date: 7 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Sir Thomas Pye having examined the prize master of the Liverpool ship2 brought in here by the Prince George's tender,3 I conclude the Admiralty acquainted with that conversation and therefore do not trouble them with the circumstances of the seizure. It may be useful, however, for your Lordship to know that on the 23rd of June, when this ship was taken, there were in the St... Continue Reading
Date: 7 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
July 1777
Monday 7th
Cape Ortigal S17°W 37 Ls
at 5 AM a Saile to the NE Tkd Ship and Gave Chace O[u]t Reefs sent up F[ore] & Miz[zen] Top Gallt Yds & set the Sailes at 9 set Steerg Sailes at Noon Continued The Chace Cape Ortigal S8°W 28 Leas —
First Part Mod & Clear Latt fresh Gales & hazey at 2 PM Fired a Shot at the Chace ½ past 3 Brought too a Brig (the Blair) from Charles... Continue Reading
Date: 7 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
My Lords Commrs of the Admty have just now received by Express a Letter from Mr Adams dated at Milford the 6th Instant, acquainting them that a Vessel was chased into that Port the proceeding day by two American Privatiers, one of which had 32 & the other 18 Guns besides Swivels; I am commanded by their Lordships to send you a Copy of Mr Adams's said Letter for your farther Information, ... Continue Reading
Date: 8 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I Recd your favr this Day of the 6th Instant & Take this opertunity to Answer the Same As I Make No Doubt you Are Informed of the particulars of Our Late Cruize I Shal only Giv you the Out lines And refer you to Mr Williams for further particulars We passed round to the N.Wt of Ireland & Entered the St Georges Chanel to the NWt Ward then passed thro Do Chanel & through between Silley... Continue Reading
Date: 8 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
An Anglo-American ship of force sent her boat on shore here yesterday for refreshments, which she received and paid for. She was a ship of force, about 26 or 28 guns, seemed full of men, and had a vessel in company, thought to be a prize.
Date: 9 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Our trade with Waterford, Corke, Belfast, and Derry, is entirely at a stand, in consequence of the swarms of American privateers, which infest our coast. Sixteen sailors from on board a Boston brig, landed yesterday near Skerries, and staid in that part of the county several hours; they behaved with great civility to the countrypeople, whom they upon all occasions excite to rebellion. The... Continue Reading
Date: 9 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
You will be pleased to acquaint my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, That in Cruizing with His Majestys Sloop under my Command, off the Texell the 7th Inst, I fell in with & took the Commerce,a fine new American Ship of 300 Tons Burthen, Samuel Williams Master, with Fourteen Men on board, from Charlestown South Carolina, bound to Amsterdam Laden with Rice & Indigo.
Lieutenant Governor... Continue Reading
Date: 9 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
On Tuesday the Eighth day of July One thousand seven hundred and Seventy seven Before me Peter John Heywood a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery and also Notary and Tabellion public dwelling in Whitehaven in the County of Cumberland by Royal Authority duly admitted and Sworn and in the presence of the Witness hereinafter named personally appeared Captain Joseph Hutchinson late... Continue Reading
Date: 9 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I sit down to give Your Lordship an account of the Mannerin which I have endeavoured to execute, the very important orders transmitted to me in Your Letter No 43., which I received on Monday Night. The next Morning after having carefully perused Your Lordships Dispatches, and their several Inclosures, I went as usual to Versailles. I determined to avail myself of the Hint you were so good as to... Continue Reading
Date: 9 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
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