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Grenada
Sir Inclosed I have the honor to send You the Copy of a Letter, which I this day received from some of the principal Merchants of this Island re questing me to sollicit You to grant a Convoy to their Ships bound for New York, in case that none is already appointed. I have only to add that the Fleet intended for that Port, is a very Valuable one, and that the principal Owners of it are some of the most respectable and opulent Men of this Colony I therefore must intreat that You will be so good as to give them such assistance and indulgence on this occasion as the public Service seems to require and the particular Circumstances of Your Squadron will permit. I have the Honor to be with great truth and Regard [&c.]
[Enclosure]
St Georges 3d June 1777
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My Lord
There are Six Vessels here loaded with the produce of this Island to a very considerable Value, Destined for New York for the Supply of His Majesty's Army and Navy on that Continent. We are well informed that there are five Vessels at Barbados in the same Situation, which with Vessels from the other Islands of which we have no particular Account, will when assembled at St Christophers, make a Fleet so considerable as to merit a direct Convoy for New York; to which Service we hope Admiral Young hath already appointed some one or more of his Majesty's Ships, either of his own Squadron, or of Lord Howe's; that may occasionally be returning to north america; but lest that should not be the case, and that the Importance of this Service should have escaped the Admirals early notice, we beg leave to Sollicit Your Lordship's Interest with Him by a Letter requesting his attention to this object, with which we will immediately send off an Express Boat to Antigua. We have the Honor to be with great respect [&c.]
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Thos Campbell & Co |
Robert Threlfall |
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Jams Campbell & Co |
Houstoun & Patterson |
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Black &Woolsey |
Willm Eccles & Co |
His Excellency Lord Macartney
[Endorsed] Lord Macartney's Letter to Vice Admiral Young with Copy of Letter from the Merchants of Grenada requesting a Convoy In the Admirals letter No 2. dated 12 July [sic June] 17772
