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Capt [Skeffington] Lutwidge in the Triton is just come up with all Speed, having with the Lord Howe and Bute Transports under his Convoy (now armed Ships Commanded by the Captains [Thomas] Pringle & [Anthony] Parry) made such Struggles to get thro' the Ice, To the relief of their Besieged Friends as never were made in the Gulph of St Lawrence in any former Period.
Date: 10 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
So many things have happened, & been transacted since my long Letter of the 8th, that I gladly, find myself under the necessity of hereby troubling you with another. On the 8th His Majesty's Ship Niger, from Halifax, anchored here, having sail'd from thence, with the 47 Regiment in three Transports under her Convoy, two of which, are this day safely arrived here, as did on the same day, the...
Date: 15 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir I conceive your early knowledge, of the possession of this principal key of all North America, being effectually secured to His Majesty, to be of such immense importance, to the public weal, that I cannot excuse myself, from sending, the herewith inclosed duplicates, in the Ship Hope; she being a Transport, which we can very well spare. On the 22d General Carl[e]ton sail'd upwards, in His...
Date: 24 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Having, after finishing my Letter of Yesterdays date, had it confirm'd, from the mouth of an Eye Witness, I can now, with unutterable Satisfaction, congratulate my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, on the certainty, of all the Rebels, who were, at Trois Rivieres, amounting, ('tis said) to about One Thousand, having left that important Post, (where they were casting Shot Shells &ca) with...
Date: 25 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir Having Omitted it, till my dispatches were sealed up, I beg you may be pleased to communicate to my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, my having appointed Mr William Jackson Masters Mate, to be Master of this His Majesty's Ship, which I hope their Lordships will approve...
Chs Douglas
The letter of which the following is a Copy, I have this Moment received from Lieut. Governor...
Date: 26 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
By Charles Douglas Esqr Captain of His
Majts Ship Isis & Senior Officer in the
River St Lawrence
You are hereby required & directed forthwith to proceed with His Majestys Armed Schooner under your Command up the River Sorel, lightening her as may be found Necessary in order for her being conducted to the foot of the Rapids at Chambly. For which this shall be your order
Given under my Hand...
Date: 18 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sr Immediately after the departure of Lieut Fook late of the Lizard, with Duplicates of Genl Carletons & my dispatches which were sent by the Hunter Sloop, intelligence was received from St Ann's of Ships being in the River & all the Pilots we could procure, for the Navigation between Quebec & Montreal were got in readiness to conduct them to three Rivers without Anchoring here....
Date: 26 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
In addition to my Letter of Yesterdays date, I am under the necessity of troubling you with another, whereby to lay before my Lords Commissioners, Various other Matters, ー In the first place the absolute and Palpable necessity of our being omnipotent, on the other Part of this River, as also General Carleton's pressing requisition, as appears by His Excellency's letter of May the 29th in order to...
Date: 27 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
By Charles Douglas Esqr Captain of
His Majts Ship Isis & Senior Officer
in the River St Lawrence
Whereas His Majestys Service requires that a sufficient Naval Force be with all speed got ready, on the lake Champlain;thot thro' the indefatiguable Zeal of His Servants of the Army & Navy in And whereas it is hoped & their Countrys Cause hitherto so manifest the Hull of His Majts Schooner...
Date: 7 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir Having on the 12th return'd from Chambly, I found here an order from Lord [Richard] Howe, to put myself under his Command, And to take all his Majts Ships & Vessels in this river, under mine; with several other orders, being all dated on the 13th Ultimo, off or near Cape race ー Vice Admiral Shuldham's first Order by the Canceau Arm'd Ship, & dated at Halifax, had overtaken me at Trois...
Date: 21 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I have received the account, by one of my Midshipmen sent Express from Chambly that the Engineers have pronounced the Ground in one or more places, thro which the road leads, from thence to St Johns, not to be of sufficient Density for the Transportation of the whole Hull of the Maria arm'd Schooner, And that it would require too much time, and be productive of other inconveniences, to remove...
Date: 23 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir, In addition to the various matters wherewith I troubled their Lord ships by the Kent, I in justice, as it does the Subscribers thereof so much honor, herewith send you by the Ostenbotten (a Swede) the Copy of a Declaration made by the Masters of the Transports, which are below the Rapids, at parting with their Longboats. I moreover thereby intend that their Lordships may be pleased to cause...
Date: 28 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
This is conveyed by the Pearl, having under her Convoy, three Transports carrying round the Rebel Prisoners. And the Tartar, forthwith to be relieved by the Bute at the Isle of Bic, after ranging round a great part of the Gulph of St. Laurence, taking a State of the several Fisheries, & cruizing until the 15th of September between Cape Ray and Scatari, is to wait upon your Lordship.
Very...
Date: 4 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
An Account from St: Johns just received, gives me reason to believe, that the Frame which was building in the Sorel, & which I (with General Carleton's Approbation) ordered to be taken down, before I left Chambly, will be ready for Launching about the 16th and the Maria about the 30th of this Month ー the Lieutenants Butler & Starke2 (such by my Order only) superintend their...
Date: 5 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
My Lord, The Prisoners lately taken at Lake Champlain, the Pearl waited for, being just come down; She sails tomorrow ー By Accounts received from Chambly they go on as briskly as can be expected at St Johns, in putting up the several Frames of Gun-boats, and the two Schooners Maria & Carleton; the latter will be first ready, but I find not so soon as I had reason to believe, by eight or ten...
Date: 10 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
...our business of building, and reconstructing are going on as fast as our paucity of proper hands, will admit of. After a very long passage the Twenty Glasgow Shipwrights, and ten house Carpenters, from Portsmouth, are at last arrived, and are to be hurried up to Chambly from Transport to Transport, Relays whereof are placed, with proper rowing Boats to ensure the Conveyance upwards of the...
Date: 16 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Having received yours of the 19th I have the pleasure of assuring you that the Inflexible, the prowess of which will give us the dominion of Lake Champlain beyond a doubt; will be ready to sail with the Expedition: the dispatch which is making with her is really amazing! Some dozens of Carpenters work at her as Carpenters. The Gondolo cuts a very good appear- ance and is to carry Six Nines and (...
Date: 23 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Hereby acknowledging the late receipt of your letter and weekly account; I acquaint you, that so many things have concurred to retard my progress towards Quebec; that I despair of reaching Champlain before the 12th In the meantime, lest I should be still farther retarded, I take this method of expressing my earnest desire, of your getting the Blonde down below the Rapids to take in your lumber...
Date: 10 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Sir Having for the space of Six Weeks, attended the Naval Equipment for the important Expedition on Lake Champlain, I (on the 4h instant) saw with unspeakable joy the reconstructed Ship alluded to in former Letters now called the Inflexible and commanded by Lieutenant [John] Schank her rebuilder; sail from St Johns twenty Eight Days after her keel was laid, towards the place of rendezvous ー...
Date: 21 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Sir In addition to my Letter of the 21st I acquaint you, that I am exerting myself to the utmost in order to get the remaining Transports out of the River, the moment their Men (without whose generous Services, the expedition could not have been carried on) are returned to them, from the Lake; Pilots both here and at Sorel, being kept in readiness for that purpose. Had not the destruction of the...
Date: 23 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6