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Captain Squires Compliments to Lord Dunmore, would be much obliged to him for the reading of two Letters he sent him the other night, one directed to Robert Carter Nicholas, the other to Richard Henry Lee, which I will return to your Lordship again
Otter Sloop, Saturday Noon [December 9, 1775]. 2
[Dunmore's Reply]
Ld Dunmore Compts to Capt Squire, is sorry he can't send him the Letters...
Date: 9 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Being informed that the Rebels had procured some Cannon from North Carolina, and that they were also to be reinforced from Williamsburg, and knowing that our little Fort [at the Great Bridge] was not in a Condition to withstand any thing heavier than Musquet Shot, I thought it advisable to risque Something to save the Fort, as the loss of it was not only exposing the well disposed People of this...
Date: 17 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
On the 19th Ulto I was most agreeably surprised by the Arrival of an Officer from Captain [Henry] Bellew, who informed me that the Liverpool, and the Brig Maria were in the Bay; next Morning I went down to the Liverpool with a Pilot who brought her up the day following. After reading your Lordships' dispatches Nos. 21, 22 & 23, which were the first I had received from the 30th of May, I then...
Date: 4 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Since writing the above 2 William Goodrich is arrived. He informs me the two thousand Pounds worth of Powder, that was sent for to France, is not yet arrived, and that all the Bills were Sold except the inclosed two of £400. ーー that I now send your Lordship (No 11) that you may make such use of as you think proper against the parties concerned in them, I have kept the seconds and...
Date: 9 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Copy of a letter from the Earl of Dunmore to the Honble Richard Corbin Esqr dated on board the Ship Dunmore in Virginia 27th January 1776. ー
Sir Notwithstanding the many crule and false invectives thrown out against me, as an Enemy to this Colony; Conscious to myself however of my firm attachment to this Country in General, and this Colony in particular; I am well convinced, tho' the present...
Date: 27 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
The Ship not yet having Sailed, I am desirous to give your Lordship by this opportunity (as I doubt it will be the last) every information in my power; a Brig arrived here a few days ago, which was boarded by one of our Tenders, the Master denied having a Single letter on board, but being the Brother of a Noted Rebel in this Country, I had her very strictly searched, and found concealed in the...
Date: 13 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
This Moment General Clinton is arrived, and to my inexpressable Mortification find he is ordered by Your Lordship to North Carolina a Most insignificant Province, when this which is the first Colony on the Continent, both for its riches and power is tottally Neglected, had North Carolina been your object, policy in my poor opm1on ought to have enduced your Lordship to have ordered your Army to...
Date: 18 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3