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Sir I have just received a Letter dated on board his Britannic Majesty's Ship the Seaford with the Honour of your Signature.
The demand, or if it may be so qualified, request therein made is of so Extraordinary, so unprecedented a kind, that its author must Certainly rather have supposed me totally unacquainted with the just rights and franchises of my Masters; or wicked enough to betray the...
Date: 10 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
It is not without the greatest real Concern that I find myself reduced to the disagreeable Necessity of complaining to your Excellency of an Insult very recently offered to the Flag of their High Mightinesses the Lords States General of the United Netherlands and my person as Governor of this Island, by John Colpoys Esquire Commander of His Britannic Majesty's Ship of War the Seaford in the...
Date: 14 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
It having been represented to me on the part of Mr Joy Hair, the bearer hereof and owner of Schooner Nancy lately arrived from the port of Baltimore in the road of this Island, that on Tuesday the 12th Current, the said Schooner Nancy then Laying peacably at Anchor, under the neutral and friendly protection of the fortress in this Island Established for Security of the rights and franchises of...
Date: 14 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3