Vice Admiral Viscount Howe to Lieutenant Governor John Gambier of the Bahamas, July 9, 1778

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Eagle, Sandy Hook [N.J.]
July the 9^th. 1778.

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Sir,

By a Vessel returning to Providence;¹ I take the opportunity to acknowledge the receipt of your Favors of the 26^th. of January, 28^th. February and 8^th. of May²; Advising me of your Arrival at Providence, and of the Incidents since occurring in the Government, which you have judged requisite to communicate to me.

Deeming the safe delivery of Letters by this Conveyance to be very precarious, I shall now only inform you, that Attention will be had to provide for the Contingencies you have stated, in the most effectual Manner the Nature of the King's Service will admit. I am, Sir, [&c.]

Howe

Copy, UkLPR, Adm. 1/488, fols. 390–91. Addressed below close: "John Gambier Esq^re: /Lieu^t. Gov^r. Providence/Bahama." Docketed: "N^o:5./Copy of a Letter from the Viscount/to Lieutenant Governor Gambier/ of the Bahama Islands./Dated 9^th: July 1778./In Vice Adm^l: L^d: Howe's Letter/Dated 25 Oct^r: 1778—."

1. New Providence Is., Bahamas.

2. For the letter of 26 Jan., see NDAR 11: 210; the latter two letters have not been found.

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Date

1778 July 9

Volume

Volume 13

Series

American Theater, June 1 to August 15, 1778