Copy of a Letter from His Excellency Governor Tonyn to Brigadier General Prevost dated St. Augustine the 24th December 77

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[Extract]
Sir

. . . I had the honour to communicate to you Letters from Captain Fanshawe, and his Plan for supplying His Majesty's Ships on the Southern Station with Water, and Provisions from S^t. Mary's River, and I shall be happy in cooperating with you upon any measure you will please to adopt to forward the execution of this important and desireable object. . . .

The Rebecca Sloop being essentially of Service for the internal Defence of the Province will also assist in Captain Fanshawe’s Plan, you will give me leave to request of you Sir to encourage the measure by strengthening her Armament with fixing a Serjeant's Command of Eighteen Private on board of the Rebecca, or any number you may conveniently spare. . . .

I shall ever be happy to testify to you, Sir, that I have the honour to be with respect and Esteem [&c.]

(Signed) Pat: Tonyn.

Copy, UkLPR, C.0.5/558, 15–20. Addressed below close: “Brigadier General Prevost.” Docketed: “East Florida/Copy/His Excellency/Governor Tonyn/to/Brigadier Gen^l. Prevost." Docketed in another hand: "In Gov^r Tonyn's (N^o 48)/of 26 Dec^r 1777." See Tonyn to Lord George Germain, 26 Dec. 1777, ibid., 10-12. Eight pages of this document are not printed. In those sections, Tonyn discusses whether the East Florida Rangers were under the direct authority of the province or the British Army, and he expresses his desire for an eventual attack on Georgia.

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1777 December 24

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Volume 10

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American Theatre from October 1, 1777, to December 31, 1777

Naval Documents of the American Revolution

Copy of a Letter from His Excellency Governor Tonyn to Brigadier General Prevost dated St. Augustine the 24th December 77

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