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Sir, From the present very extensive Business in the Transport Department, and the certainty of a large encrease of Shipping in the course of this Campaign, I humbly apprehend His Majesty's Service in that Line does require an Officer of Superior Rank, to have the Command and direction of the other Agents: I am therefore induced to make Application to you, to appoint Lieutenant [John] Bourmaster...
Date: 25 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
The Mercury Packet is dispatched to inform your Lordship of the Arrival of the Halifax Fleet on the 29th June at Sandy Hook, where I arrivedfour Days sooner in the Grey Hound Frigate. I met with Governor Tryon on board of ship at the Hook...from whom I have had the fullest Information of the State of the Rebels...
...We passed the Narrows with three Ships of War and the first Division of...
Date: 7 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Whereas by an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament to prohibit all Trade & Intercourse with the Colonies of New Hampshire, Massachuset's Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pensylvania, The three lower Counties on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, and for other Purposes therein mentioned; It is enacted, that "it shall and may...
Date: 14 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
We are sorry to inform your Lordship that the Infatuation and Perseverance of the People and their Leaders, have hitherto afforded no opportunity for the effectual Operation of.the Civil Commission with which His Majesty hath been pleased to charge us:
The Determination of the Congress to discourage amongst the Colonists every Idea of Reconciliation with Great Britain, except upon their lately...
Date: 20 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
These are to Certify the Right Honorable The Lords Commissioners of His Majestys Treasury that John Blackburn Esquire of London hath supplied from on Board the Brigantine Burgoyne James Emerton Master for the Use of His Majestys Land Forces under my Command and delivered at this place to His Majestys Commissary General of Stores and Provissions One hundred and thirty Hogsheads containing Thirteen...
Date: 22 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Being informed the Artillery Ships attending upon this army are not got up to Morisani, & as the stores in them will immediately be wanted on shore, I beg leave to sollicit yr assistance for getting them to the most convenient station for landing their Stores at Morisani I am Dr Sir [&c.]
Date: 9 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Richard Viscount Howe of the Kingdom of Ireland, and William Howe, Esq; General of His Majesty's Forces in America, the King's Commissioners for restoring Peace to his Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in North-America, &c. &c. &c.
Proclamation
Whereas by our Declarations of the 14th of July, and 19th of Sept. last, in Pursuance of His Majesty's most gracious Intentions towards his...
Date: 30 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
September 29, 1775. A Detachment of One Captain, Two Subns Two Sergeants and Fifty Rank & File from the Two Battalions of Marines to hold themselves in Readiness to embark to morrow morning when Ordered.2
Date: 29 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
In consequence of your Letter which I had the Honor to receive last night, respecting the dangers that would attend the Cerberus and Transports attempting the Navigation of the River St Lawrence at this late Season of the year, and giving such forcible Reasons for declaring the Measures proposed neither adviseable nor practicable, I have dropped the Idea of sending the Reinforcement to Quebec in...
Date: 13 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
A Proclamation.
By his Excellency the Hon. William Howe, Major General and Commander in Chief of all his Majesty's Forces, within the Colonies lying on the Atlantic Ocean, from Nova Scotia to West Florida, inclusive, &c.
Whereas several of the inhabitants of this town have lately absconded, to join, it is apprehended, his Majesty's enemies, assembled in open rebellion, I do, by virtue of the...
Date: 28 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Sir, A multiplicity of Business has prevented my earlier Acknowledgments to you for your very essential Services in conducting the landing and reembarking the light Infantry the other day at Phipps's Farm which has been reported to me by Major General Clinton, as well as your adroit management of the Floating battery which must have galled the Enemy severely. All the beholders on our...
Date: 11 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I have the Honor to inform your Lordship, that the Whitby Transport from Cork, with four Companies of the 17th Regiment of Foot, two Transports, having on Board four Companies of the 3d Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, and two Ships with Ordnance Stores, are safely arrived. The Brig Nancy, with Ordnance Stores, was spoke to by one of the Kings Cruisers the 15th Instant and is the...
Date: 27 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I learn the Nancy Brigantine an Ordnance Transport ー having on Board 4000 Stand of Arms complete 100,000 Flints, a Thirteen Inch Mortar with other Stores in Proportion, was taken in the Bay last week by the Rebels Privateers, and affords an Instance for this Necessity.2 The Circumstance is rather unfortunate to us, as they are now furnished with all the Requisites for setting the Town...
Date: 3 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
His Majesty's Ship Tartar being ordered to England by Admiral Graves, I am to confirm to your Lordship the intilligence before communicated of the Capture of the Ordnance Brig Nancy by the Rebels, and that there is a Certainty of another Vessel, the Property of a Merchant, loaded with woolen Goods, and every Article necessary for Cloathing, having lately fallen into their Hands, which must afford...
Date: 13 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
There have not arrived any Troops since my last by the Tartar Frigate leaving th[is] the 16th Inst, but the Store Ships as pr Margin 2 have got in with most seasonable Supplies, alth[ough] the live Stock met with worse Fate than could have been suspected from the great Care that has been taken...
I have also; on Consultation with the Admiral, ordered two Transports to be fitted out...
Date: 19 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
In answer to your letter of the 18th inst I am to acquaint you That my command does not extend to Canada, nor having received any Accounts wherein the name of [Ethan] Allen is mentioned, I cannot give you the smallest Satisfaction upon the subject of your letter; But trusting Major General Carleton's conduct will never incur censure upon any occasion, I am to conclude in the instance of your...
Date: 21 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
From the low State of our Magazine of Provisions for the Army here, and the Hazards which Ships run in coming upon this Coast with Supplies when the Winter Season is so far advanced, I have judg[ed] it expedient to send two Transports, 2 one of them Armed Commanded by Lieut. [John] Bourmaster, an Agent in that Serv[ice,] with Captain [Benjamin] Payne of the 18th Regiment of Foot, to...
Date: 24 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Sir, You are to embark in the Empress of Russia armed Transport, commanded by Lieutenant John Bourmaster, who after receiving on board one Subaltern and a Detachment of Marines, will sail from this Port under Convoy of the Scarborough Frigate: on a Signal from her, when got to Sea, you are with the Diana Transport to proceed with the utmost dispatch to the West Indies, and use your Endeavours to...
Date: 25 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
I am this day informed by the Master of a Vessel arrived here a few Days past from Cape Nicholas in the Island ー of Hispaniola, that the Rebels get Supplies of Arms and Gunpowder from thence in large Quantities, One Person by this Informants Account having sold 1,000 Stands of Arms, and one Ton of Gunpowder, to the Master of a Privateer fitted out for that Intent from Providence in the Government...
Date: 26 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
I have the Honor to send you enclosed, Extracts from a Dispatch received from Lord Dartmouth, one of His Majesty's principal Secretary's of State, dated Whitehall 22d October 1775, whereby you will be fully acquainted with every thing communicated to me relative to His Majestys Intentions therein specified. Major Genl [Henry] Clinton will have the Execution of these His Majesty's Commands, and I...
Date: 3 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3