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Sir, You will herewith receive the Orders it has been necessary for me to transmit to the different Commanders of the Ships of War stationed in the River St: Laurence, in consequence of my Appointment to the Command in chief of the Ships and Vessels of His Majesty's Fleet employed and to be employed in North America. And I am to desire You will cause the same to be delivered as You have...
Date: 13 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Being appointed Commander in Chief of the Ships and Vessels of his Majesty's Fleet, employed in North America, and having the honor to be by his Majesty constituted one of his Commissioners for restoring Peace to his Colonies, and for granting Pardons to such of his subjects therein as shall be duely solicitous to benefit by that effect of his gracious indulgence; I embrace this Opportunity to...
Date: 20 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
By Richard Viscount Howe of the Kingdom of Ireland, one of the King's Commissioners for restoring Peace to his Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in North America, &c.&c.
Declaration:
Whereas by an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament to prohibit all Trade and Intercourse with the Colonies of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey,...
Date: 20 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
By a Merchant Ship that I find now under sail for England I take the opportunity of writing to acquaint you for their Lordships information, that having had the Wind from the Eastward three days after I left St Helens on the Morning of the 11th past, I was enabled to advance upon my passage to this Coast about four hundred Leagues to the Westward, by the twenty third The Wind then changed to the...
Date: 23 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
By the Viscount Howe, Vice Admiral of the White and commander in Cheif of His Majestys Ships and Vessels employed and to be employd in North America.
Pursuant to the Instructions I have received from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty for the Employment of His Majesty's Ship the Roebuck according to their further Intentions: You are hereby Authorized and required to apply for, and in your...
Date: 12 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
General Instructions and Directions For the conduct of
the Ships of War, when sailing or in chace by Day.
officers summoned on board the Admiral to be provided with an orderly Book.
Article 1.
For the advantage of dispatch, and the more convenient distribution of orders the Officers summoned by signal are to attend on board the Admiral provided with an orderly Book; wherein they are to minute...
Date: 13 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
The Situation in which you are placed and the acknowledged liberality of your Sentiments, induce me very much to wish for an opportunity to converse with you on the Subject of the Commission with which I have the honor to be charged; As I trust that a dispassionate consideration of the Kings benevolent intentions, may be the means of preventing the further Effusion of Blood, and become productive...
Date: 13 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
Sir By the Return of the Sandwich Packet, I have opportunity to inform You, in Addition to my Letter of the 23d of last Month (a Duplicate of which is herewith enclosed) that I was not able, from the State of the Weather, to get to this port until the 12th Instant. Joining the Fleet off of Staten Island the same Evening, I took the Command pursuant to their Lordships Instructions.
The Returns I...
Date: 28 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
The Captains & Commanders of His Majs Ships & Vessels of War in this Port, are respectively to keep their Provisions & Water compleated to a Proportion for three Months unless they are otherwise, particularly directed / & to hold their Ships in Constant readiness for Sea.ー
Date: 5 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
It has been thought necessary to appoint Mr. John Hunter, Master of His Majesty's Ship Eagle, to be Master Attendant at the Port or Anchorage where the Fleet shall be from time to time, assembled, for directing the Pilotage of the Fleet, & Placeing the Ships in the most Convenient Stations, according to the Orders he will receive from the Commander in Chief for those Purposesー
This General...
Date: 6 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
By the Detention of the Sandwich Packet I am enabled to inform You of the Arrival of a great part of the dispersed Transports from the Clyde. Some of them had been separated early from the Flora in bad Weather by the Misconduct of the Masters, as Captain [John] Brisbane represents; And others, subsequent to his Arrival with them off of Boston, in the very foggy Weather he met with on his passage...
Date: 8 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Conceiving it of the utmost Importance, in pursuit of the Objects of the special Commission with which I had the honor to be charged by His Majesty, that the Colonies in Rebellion should have the earliest Information of His Majesty's most gracious Intentions, with respect to the Restoration of Peace, and the granting of Pardons to such of His Majesty's Subjects as, by a speedy Return to their...
Date: 11 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Rate
Ships Names
Guns
Men
Commanders
Appointments.
3
Eagle
64
520
V. Adl Lord Howe
Capt Duncan.
Stationed off of Staten Island attendant on the Operations of the Army.
"
Asia
500
Vandeput
4
Chatham
50
370
V. A. Shuldham Capt Raynor
"
Preston
367
Commo Hotham Capt Uppleby
"
Centurion
350
Brathwaite
"
Renown
Banks
5
Rainbow
44
280
Sir Geo: Collier
"...
Date: 13 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Sir I have the Satisfaction of being able to inform their Lordships by the Sandwich Packet, that Commodore [William] Hotham, whose distinguished Abilities gave Room for every favorable Expectation, arrived on the 12th with Eighty five Sail of his Convoy; completing with those few before arrived, the whole of the Hessian Embarkation that sailed from England under his Direction. He was joined off...
Date: 14 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Concurring with the proposition you have been pleased to make in your favor of the seventeenth for an exchange of prisoners in my department, viz. "Officers for those of equal rank, and sailors for sailors," I will take the liberty to propose an officer of the same rank with Lieut. Uames] Josiah, when he arrives.
The Cerberus being absent, I have no other information respecting the situation of...
Date: 19 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I have just received a letter from the General which will make it necessary for me to appoint some movements with the ships here towards the Town, to countenance the intended operations of the Army this night & to morrow morning. Your ship will be useful on that occasion, and your presence always desirable. If therefore your stay is not immediately necessary where you are, the service in...
Date: 26 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I return you many thanks, my dear sir, for your congratulations on the events of yesterday. I have the satisfaction to hear from Genl Howe, that he has every reason to be contented with the prospects before him, and in the highest degree so, with the spirit & temper of the Troops.
I should be more deficient in judgement & discretion that I will confess that I am, if I did not much covet...
Date: 28 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
My Lord. ー agreeable to your Lordships Request I have Conversed with General Washington, who says that he has no power to Treat upon the Subject your Lordship mentioned, but has not the least objection to my going to Philadelphia to Inform Congress of what your Lordship has been pleased to Communicate to me upon the Subject. I shall wait your Lordships further Direction, and am with much esteem,...
Date: 30 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
A Proposition having been made to me by the Commander of the Rebel Forces for an Exchange of Prisoners, Number for Number and Rank for Rank, I have thought it for His Majesty's Service to concur therein.
I have in Consequence directed that some American Prisoners taken by the Milford in an Armed Vessel from Boston2 should be conveyed in the Rainbow to Halifax; and have desired...
Date: 31 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6