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Whereas we think fit that you shall proceed in His Majestys Ship Bristol to North America in order to serve under the command of Rear Admiral Shuldham Commr in Chief of His Majestys Ships & Vessels upon that Station; You are hereby required & directed to report on board the Bristol at Sheerness and hoist your Broad Pendant on board her (Capt [John] Morris her Commander being directed to...
Date: 1 November 1775
Volume: Volume 3
You are hereby required & directed to order Capt [John] Morris of His Majs Ship the Bristol to receive on board the Earl [Charles] Cornwallis Commr of the Troops under Orders to proceed to North America with his Attendants, Servants & Baggage and give them a passage to Corke and from thence to North America, victualling them during their continuance on board as the Ships Company. Given...
Date: 15 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
You are hereby required & directed to order Mr Richard Molesworth Deputy Paymaster to the Troops going to North America under the command of Earl [Charles] Cornwallis to be received on board such one of His Majestys Ships under your command as you shall think proper, together with his Cash, Servants & Baggage directing the Captain of her to Victual him & his Servants during their...
Date: 15 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
For the better maintaining a proper Government & strict discipline in the Squadron under your command; We do hereby authorize & empower you (from the time of your departure from England until you shall receive Orders from Rear Admiral Shuldham to put yourself under his command, or the Service you are going upon shall be at an end) to call and assemble Courts Martial in Foreign parts as...
Date: 16 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
You are hereby required and directed, in case of the death of any Officers belonging to the Ships and Vessels under your command, during your present intended Expedition, or the dismission of any of them by Court Martial before you put yourself under the command of Rear Adml Shuldham, to appoint such other Persons as by the quality of their Employments ought to succeed, to act in their rooms,...
Date: 16 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
The Lords Commissioners of His Majts Treasury having transmitted to Us, a List of Ships which have been taken up us Victuallers to attend the Expedition under the command of the Earl of Cornwallis and also a Copy of the Charter Party under which they are contracted for; We send you herewith a Copy of the said Papers, And do hereby require and direct you to take the said Ships under your convoy,...
Date: 16 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Notwithstanding former Orders, You are hereby required & directed to continue the Hawke Sloop as part of the Squadron under your command, And to inform Rear Adml Shuldham thereof the first opportunity that offers for so doing.
Date: 19 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Whereas His Majestys Ship the Boreas has received damage in getting upon the Dean Sand which will prevent her proceeding on the expedition under your command We have therefore substituted the Active in her place; And do hereby require & direct you to take the said Ship under your command her Captain being directed to follow your Orders.
Date: 25 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Having ordered Captain [Robert] Dring Commander of His Majesty's Bomb Vessel the Carcass to put himself under your Command and follow your Orders for his further Proceedings You are hereby required and directed to take him under your Command accordingly and employ him as part of your Squadron. Given &c the 25th December 1775.
Date: 25 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Inclosed we send you the names of 34 Persons taken in Arms against the King near Montreal on the 25t September last, which Persons are now Prisoners in Pendennis Castle; and whereas in pursuance of the King's Pleasure signified by Lord George Germain one of His Majestys Principal Secretaries of State in his Letter of this day we have ordered Captain [Thomas] Symonds of the Solebay to call at...
Date: 27 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Whereas by our Commission bearing date the 11th instant, we have appointed you Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships & Vessels emĀ ployed and to be employed at & about Jamaica, & in the Gulph of Mexico from the River Mississippi to Cape Florida, And whereas we intend that, so soon as you can be spared from the Operations of the present Campaign, you shall proceed to that Island,...
Date: 24 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9