Commander William Fooks, R.N., to Don Manuel Falquez, October 18, 1777

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Ship the Favorite, the 18^th: October 1777

Sir

I have been honored with your Letter this Morning, concerning some Vessels which have been seen off this Island. In answer to which I am to acquaint You that I know nothing of them, but should they be English Cruizers I can answer for their not coming into this Port, without they should follow American Privateers or Piratical Vessels. But I must beg leave to observe that while His Britannic Majesty's Rebellious Subjects, or other Pirates, have the Sanction of your Port, You may rest assured that His Britannic Majesty's Frigates will Cruize about this Island.

I am informed that one of the Schooners in your Port belongs to the Pirate Paschal Bonavitta, I therefore desire that she may be delivered up to Me, as also the Negroes which he has left upon one of the Estates on your Island, they being the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Subjects.

Your Excellency will be pleased to return an Answer, in Writing, to the latter part of my Letter before I leave this Port I have the honor to be [&c.]

W^m: Fooks

(A Copy)

Copy, UkLPR, C.O. 101/21, 83.Addressed at foot of first page: "His Excellency the Governor of Trinidada." Docketed: "Copy of Captain Fooks of the/Favorite Sloop of War, his/Letter to the Governor of/Trinidada in answer/October 18^th 1777." Docketed in another hand: "In Lord Macartney's/ (N^o 40) of 24^th Oct^r. 1777./ (8)." See below, Macartney to Lord George Germain.

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1777 October 18

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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

Commander William Fooks, R.N., to Don Manuel Falquez, October 18, 1777

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