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5th May As I now began to grow short of water, and had lighten'd the Ship to as easy a draught of water as I could, which was abt 18 F. 6 I. I took the Liverpool with me & sailed up the River in order to fill my empty casks, and reconnoitre the Enemy's force of the River. We arrived off of Wilmington the 7th where we drove a Vessel ashore, and not being able to get her off proceeded to Unload...
Date: 9 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
May 1776
Thursday 9th
[4 A.M.]
At a single Anchor off Weilmington Creek River Delaware
it was then so thick a fog that nothing could be discern'd till about 8 OClock when it cleared, and we perceived the Galleys at Anchor about 2 miles above us, we gave them chase immediately with all our Sail, and they as industriously plied their Oars and Sails to avoid us: it falling little wind we were...
Date: 9 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
May 1776
Friday 10th
At Single Anchor off of Reedy Island, River, Delaware
The next morning we Saw only eleven Sail, and one of which had lost her mast. We had but one Man killed during both days' Action (Jno Murray) but received many Shott through the Sails and cut the Rigging, and a few in the Hull: at 9 weighed and made Sail: During the Action, a Brig that was in Company, on board of which...
Date: 10 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
We lay here [south of New Castle] & above Reedy-Island for three days, when finding there was no prospect of drawing them down, having filled our water, and fully executed all I had in view in going up the river, we weighed anchor in order to drop down to the Capes, where we arrived the 15th
It is, however, a matter of some satisfaction, that the Enemy should have fired away so much Powder...
Date: 15 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir: If at any time in the Course of our Cruizing off this place, we should happen to lose Company, or that I should think it necessary to proceed to any other place with the Ship under my Command, It is my desire and direction to you, that you remain with His Majesty's Ship the Liverpool on this Station, and Cruize in the manner You shall think best to annoy the enemy and intercept the Trade of...
Date: 15 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
May 1776.
Thursday 16
Cape Henlopen Lighthouse WNW 3 Leagues.
at ½ past 9 in the morning weighed and made Sail the Liverpool in Company.
Moderate and fair Weather at 2 in the afternoon gave the Liverpool orders2 and made her Signal to chase to the NEt 6 the Dolphin my Tender joined us, from Norfolk; at 7 Sent the Pembroke and Ranger on a Cruize.
Date: 16 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
May 1776
Wednesday 22d
At a Single Anchor in Hampton Road, Virginia
Fine pleasant weather, dried Sails, and exercised the Ships company at Great Guns and small Arms; at Noon Sent the Barge and Cutter to assist getting down the fleet from Norfolk, who were at this time under certain apprehensions of being destroyed by the Rebels.
Ditto weather, this afternoon many of the fleet came down,...
Date: 23 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
May 1776
Saturday 25th
At a Single Anchor in Hampton Road, Virginia
Light airs and hazey, at 4 in the afternoon made the Signal for the fleet, weigh'd and made Sail, as did the Fowey and Otter with the fleet amounting to upwards of Ninety Sail: employed turning thro' Lynhaven bay:
Sunday 26th
at 11 AM 90 Sail in Company.
Moderate and hazy weather, at 1 in the afternoon anchored off...
Date: 27 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
By Andrew Snape Hamond Esqr &ca
You are hereby required and directed to proceed to Sea, without loss of time with his Majesty's Sloop under your command and cruize off of the Capes of Virginia, and from thence to Hampton Road, taking care to place your ship in the Best situation for speaking with all Vessels bound in or going out.
And whereas his Excellency the Earl of Dunmore has acquainted...
Date: 28 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I have received your letter of the 26th instant by Mr. Smith, and am very Sorry, tho not Surprized to learn that you think it necessary to leave Annapolis. The Province of Maryland has hitherto been looked upon as having acted with a degree of moderation in the present unnatural Rebellion subsisting in the Colonies, and I confess I had great hopes from your continuing in your Government, that you...
Date: 30 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
The reason you have not heard from me Sooner, is owing to our having taken the resolution of moving the Fleet from Norfolk to this place, which was effected on the 27th I believe, without the loss of a Single vessel, except three or four that were obliged to be destroyed for want of materials to bring them round. For a description of the Island, the Harbour, and what we are about, I refer you...
Date: 30 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
16th May.
I Parted Company with the Liverpool and stood to the Southward. the same Evening I fell in with the Pilot boat from Virginia, by which I recieved letters from Lord Dunmore acquainting me, of his having recieved certain intelligence that the Rebels intended attacking the lines at Norfolk; that they were bringg down Cannon, and preparing fire rafts to destroy the Fleet, and assembling...
Date: 31 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
May 1776
Thursday 30
At a Single Anchor at Gwins Island in Virginia
at 5 in the afternoon the Otters Tender arrived from a Cruize, and conducted in here with her, a Spanish Snow, taken by the Liverpool, to take her Tryal;2
Friday 31st
In the morning begun to Hog Ship and to put the Ship in all readiness for Sea.
Fresh gales and hazy weather, at 4 in the afternoon the Otter...
Date: 31 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
By Andrew Snape Hamond &ca
Whereas his Excellency the Earl of Dunmore Governor of Virgina has represented to me, that he has hired Several Vessels to act against the Enemy, and has made application for a few Men and Ordnance Stores, to Arm the Lady Charlotte Tender for annoying the Rebels, as well as the Protection of his Excellencies Camp on Gwins Island.
You are therefore hereby required...
Date: 1 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
By Andrew Snape Hamond Esqr &ca. &ca
You are hereby required and directed to proceed to Sea as soon as possible with his Majesty's Sloop under your command, and put into execution such part of those Orders you received from me on the 28th of last Month, as are not already executed, and to lose no opportunity of annoying the enemy by every means in your power ー
Given under my hand on board...
Date: 2 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Tomorrow being the Anniversary of His Majesty's Birth Day, a Salute of Twenty one Guns is to be fired from the Fowey, and as many from the Tenders as they can fire with convenience, to begin at the discharge of the Second Gun from the Roebuck.
Date: 3 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Having been informed by a vessel that arrived here yesterday, that his Majesty's Troops in Garrison at St Augustine, as well as the inhabitants, are in Great want of Provisions; I have therefore lost no time in dispatching my Tender, commanded by Mr [Richard] Whitworth, with a Small Supply of Bread and Flour to you, and every thing besides that could be spared from the numerous Fleet we have here...
Date: 9 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
It was not untill yesterday that I received any certain account of your arrival in America, in which I beg leave to congratulate you.
The circumstances of the Fleet and Army to the Northward has been such, that it has not been in Admiral Shuldhams power, to send me a force Sufficient to authorize me, to make any attempt on Philadelphia; I therefore no sooner heard of your intended expedition...
Date: 10 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I am not a little uneasy at not hearing from you; and yet as you have no vessel with you, I don't well know how I should; nor has it been in my power to send any thing to you; so continually have we been employed.
Mr Goold the Purser of the Liverpool had sailed in search of you, before the Spanish Snow arrived; and after cruizing, as he tells me, for three or four days off Cape Henlopen and Cape...
Date: 10 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
By Andrew Snape Hamond Esquire &ca &ca
You are hereby required and directed to proceed forthwith with the Roebucks Tender under your command to the Mouth of the River Delaware, where you will find his Majestys Ship Liverpool cruizing at some small distance from the Capes, and having met with her, you are to deliver the enclosed dispatches to Captain Bellew and waite his Orders for your...
Date: 10 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5