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The Sloop Sachem
Isaiah Robinson Commander
To the Commissioners of Naval Stores
Dr
ー For First Cruise ー
1776
June 7
To
4 Bolts of Oznabrigs 179 yds
@
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3 Bolts Russia @£7.10
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12 lb Sewing Twine @2/6d
July 8
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22 Two pound Round Shott Wt 43 lb
@ 2½d
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300 lb Grape Shott
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15
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103 three pound Shott wt 309 lb
@ 3d P lb.
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Date: 6 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
The King having been pleased, by His Order in Council of the 17th of May 1776, to order, require, prohibit and command, That no Person or persons whomsoever (except the Master General or principal Officers of the Ordnance for His Majesty's Service) do at any time, during the Space of three Months, to commence from the 23d day of the Month abovemention'd, presume to Transport into any parts out of...
Date: 30 May 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The King having been pleased, under His Royal Signet and Sign Manual to establish Instructions (bearing date the 2d day of May 1776.) for the Commanders of His Ships and Vessels of War, in regard to such Capturesas have been, or shall be made by them, in consequence of an Act lately passed, prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with the Colonies of New Hampshire, Massachusets Bay, Rhode Island,...
Date: 1 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Having ordered the Complements of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels under your Command, whose names are on the other side hereof, to be increased to the Numbers against each respectively exprest You are hereby required and directed to give Orders to their Commanders to increase their Complements to those Numbers respectively, and to bear such increased Complements until they receive further Order....
Date: 5 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Whereas the Commissioners appointed by Acts of Parliament for the Discovery of Longitude at Sea &c have agreed with Mr William Bayly to proceed in His Majesty's Sloop Discovery on her present intended Voyage in order to make Nautical and Astronomical Observations to perform other Services tending to the improvement of Geography and Navigation (as you will see by the Copy of his Instructions...
Date: 5 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Having received a Letter from Vice Adml Gayton Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships & Vessels at Jamaica, dated the 30th of March last, enclosing one he received Express from the Chief Justice of His Majesty's Island of [New] Providence, giving an account of the proceedings of Esek Hopkins Commander in Chief of an Armament fitted out by the Rebel Americans, for the purpose of possessing...
Date: 7 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
You are hereby required and directed to repair with His Majesty's Ship under your command into Homoze where we have ordered her to be cleaned graved and refitted, stored for foreign Service, and her Provisions completed to six Months of all Species except Beer, of which she is to have as much as she can conveniently stow; and to be supplied with Wine or Spirits in lieu of the remainder.
Applying...
Date: 8 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Whereas you have represented to Us, by your Letter of the 7th instant, that Messrs Hanbury's and Lloyd have acquainted you that the present disturbances in America, have put it out of their power to furnish His Majesty's Ships at Virginia with fresh Beef agreable to the Contract made with Messrs Capel and Osgood Hanbury, but that they are willing to procure whatever fresh Beef they possibly can...
Date: 11 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
You are hereby required and directed, so soon as you shall have received on board the Ship you command, from the Head Quarters at Chatham, the Party of Marines mention'd on the otherside hereof, to proceed in her with all possible dispatch to Spithead, and remain there until you receive further Order. Given &c. the 11th June 1776.
Date: 11 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
You are hereby required & directed to send to North America by theShips mentioned on the otherside hereof, in the proportions against their Names express'd, One Hundred of the Landmen borne as supernumeraries on board the Guardships at Spithead, to serve on board such of the Ships under the command of Lord Howe, as his Lordship shall judge proper towards completing their respective...
Date: 18 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Lords Commissioners, Admiralty, to Captain Maximilian Jacobs, H.M.S. Amazon, Spithead, June 21, 1776
Mary and Ann
George and Molly
Mediator
Favourite
James
British Queen
Whereas it is intended that the Transport Vessels mentioned in the Margin[*] having on board 44 7 German Recruits and also a Detachment of His Majesty's British Troops consisting of Six Officers and Sixty Private destined for the several Regiments of Foot serving under the Command of General Carleton in Canada, shall...
Date: 21 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Lords Commissioners, Admiralty, to Captain Charles Fielding, H.M.S. Diamond, Spithead, June 22, 1776
Minerva
Neptune
Matty
Jane & Isabella
Elliot
Whereas Lord George Germain, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, hath, by his Letter of Yesterday's date, signified His Majesty's Pleasure that the Transport Vessels having on board the 2d Division of the Hessian Troops, the Regiment and Artillery of the Prince of Waldeck, the 16th Regiment of Light Dragoons, the Remount Horses...
Date: 22 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Whereas, upon receiving information from Vice Adml Sr James Douglas, Commander in Chief of His Majts Ships at Portsmouth, that a Fever, supposed to be infectious, had got into His Majesty's Ship the Lark, We have, in order to stop the progress of so fatal a distemper, ordered that every Sickly Man on board the Lark should forthwith be sent to the Hospital, and that the Ship should be fumigated...
Date: 24 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Whereas we have engaged Mr John Webber Draughtsman and Landship Painter to proceed in His Majesty's Sloop under your command on her present intended Voyage in order to make Drawings and paintings of such places in the Countries you may touch at in the course of the said Voyage, as may be proper to give a more perfect Idea thereof than can be formed from written descriptions only, You are hereby...
Date: 24 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Having received a Letter from Vice Admiral Sir James Douglass of Yesterday's Date, giving an Account of the Departure of His Majesty's Ship the Amazon with the Convoy for Canada; and of the Readiness of the Convoys with the Hessians, and other Troops going to General Howe, We send Your Lordship the inclosed Copy of the said Letter for His Majesty's Information and are &ca.
Date: 28 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
You are hereby required and directed to proceed with His Majesty's Sloop under your Command to the Harbour of St Johns or to such other Port in the Island of Newfoundland as you shall learn Vice Admiral [John] Montagu may be at; and upon joining him you are to deliver to him the inclosed Pacquet and follow his orders for your further proceedings. Given &c the 11th of July 1776
By &c. P:S:
Date: 11 July 1776
Volume: Volume 6
You are hereby required and directed, to proceed with his Majesty's Ship under your command to Corke, and upon your arrival there, you are to make enquiry for, and take under your Convoy such Ships laden with Provisions for the use of the Army under the command of General Howe, as may be ready to accompany you, and putting to Sea with the first opportunity of Wind and Weather make the best of...
Date: 17 July 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Whereas We think fit that you shall command His Majesty's Storeship the Elephant; You are hereby required and directed to take upon you the Charge & Command of her accordingly, her Officers & Company being hereby strictly required to observe & follow your Orders; And, you are carefully to observe & follow the General Printed Instructions, and such Orders & Directions, as you...
Date: 17 July 1776
Volume: Volume 6
John
Chambré
Susannah
Whereas it is intended that the Transport Vessels named in the Margin having onboard British Recruits for the Army under General Howe, and the Victualling Transports named in the inclosed List laden with Provisions for the use of the Fleet (all which Ships are at present at Spithead, or daily expected to arrive there) shall proceed to North America under Convoy of His...
Date: 23 July 1776
Volume: Volume 6