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So much depends upon the inclosed Act of Parliament for restraining the Commerce & Fisheries of the New England Governments, that I cannot too earnestly recommend it to your Attention, at the same time it is hoped that the good effects of it will be found, not in the Restrictions it contains, but in that return of Duty and Obedience on the part of the People which will render the Execution of...
Date: 15 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir I have received your Letters No. 13. 14. & 15. and have laid them before the King.
The present State of His Majesty's Service in North America precludes for the present all hope of our being able to spare any part of the Kings Troops for the service of the Bermuda Islands or of making them a Station for one of the small Sloops of War, But I will not fail at a proper time to attend to...
Date: 3 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir, Since my letter to you of 27th ulto an account has been printed here, accompanied with Depositions to verify it, of Skirmishes between a Detachment of the Troops under your Command, and different Bodies of the provincial Militia.
It appears, upon the fullest Inquiry, that this Account, which is chiefly taken from a Salem Newspaper, has been published by a Captain Darby [John Derby], who...
Date: 1 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
It being apprehended that the Number of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels at present in North America may not be sufficient for effectually securing a due Obedience of the Laws passed in the last Session of Parliament for restraining the Commerce and Fisheries of several of the Colonies, and that it may be particularly useful to have a more considerable Naval Strength at New York to protect the...
Date: 17 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
(No 21) On the 10th of last Month in the Morning, Lieut Nunn arrived at my Office with your dispatch containing an Account of the Transaction on the 19th of April, of which the public had before received Intelligence by a Schooner, to all Appearance, sent by the Enemies of Govt on purpose to make an Impression here, by representing the Affair between the King's Troops & the Rebel Provincials...
Date: 1 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Lords The King having received Advices that not only the 4 New England Governments are in open and actual Rebellion, & that the People have been daring enough, amongst other Acts of Hostility to make Seizures of several Vessels, and to send the Crews to Prison, but also that the Flame has extended itself to most of the other Colonies, in which the greatest Violences have been committed,...
Date: 1 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
. . . it is the King's firm Resolution that the most vigorous efforts should be made both by Sea and Land to reduce his rebellious subjects to obedience and the proper measures are now pursuing not only for augmenting the army under General [Thomas] Gage but also for making such additions to our Naval Strength in North America as may enable Admiral [Samuel] Graves to make such a disposition of...
Date: 5 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir. Your brother3 has been so obliging as to communicate to me from time to time, such Intelligence as you have transmitted to him respecting the State of affairs in Maryland, and about 10 days ago I had the Satisfaction to receive your Letter of the 5th. of May.
I sincerely wish you may not have been too sanguine in your hopes that the time is not far distant when Peace &...
Date: 5 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Lord Your Lordship's dispatches of the 1st & 15th of May have been received and laid before the King, and it is with the greatest Satisfaction that I transmit to your Lordship His Majesty's Approbation of the Spirit and Fortitude with which you resisted the Attempts to compell you by force to restore the Gunpowder which your Lordship so prudently and properly had put on board the Fowey....
Date: 5 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I shall hope to be able by a Store Ship that will sail for Virginia in a few days to write you fully upon the state of the Province under your Government and upon the variety of matters contained in your late Dispatches Nos 29, 30, 31 & 32.
In the mean time I take the chance of a Conveyance to you by the Carolina Packet, to acquaint you, that in consequence of the Advices received from all...
Date: 5 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Lord, This Dispatch accompanies a triplicate of my Letter to your Lordship of the 5th instant, and is intrusted to the Care of Capt Dodsworth who has on board 3000 Stand of Arms with two hundred rounds of Powder & Ball for each Musket, and 4 light Brass 3 pounders to be delivered to your Lordships order.
Captain Dodsworth has my Instructions that he do immediately upon his arrival on the...
Date: 12 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
This dispatch which encloses a triplicate of my letter of the 5th instant will be transmitted to you by Lord Dunmore under whose care it is sent by a Store Ship having on Board 3000 stand of Arms with Ammunition and other Military Stores, a part of which arms His Lordship is instructed to deliver to your order from a hope on one hand that Lieutenant Colonel [Allen] Macleane will be able with your...
Date: 12 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I am commanded by the King to signify to your Lordships His Majesty's Pleasure, that a Vessel of about 200 Tons Burthen be taken up by the Navy Board, to carry Arms and other Military Stores to Quebec, and also that one of His Majesty's small Ships, such as your Lordships think proper be forthwith prepared to carry dispatches to General [Thomas] Gage at Boston.ー
I am &c.
Date: 19 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I am Commanded by the King to signify to your Lordships His Majesty's Pleasure that in addition to the Ships of War already ordered for North America, your Lordships do send such further reinforcement to the fleet under the command of Admiral [Samuel] Graves, as the state of His Majesty's Naval Service will, in your Lordships' judgement, admit of; and that your Lordships do also prepare forthwith...
Date: 21 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Having received Advices not only that a great part of His Majesty's Subjects in the Southern Colonies have traiterously assembled in Arms against the King's Government, but that they have menaced Destruction to His Majesty's Servants there, who have no place of safety to resort to; and also that Boats full of armed men have been fitted out from the Province of South Carolina, which cruize and...
Date: 28 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Lord The hope you held out to us in your letter of the 1st of May that with a supply of arms and ammunition you should be able to collect from amongst Negroes Indians and other persons a force sufficient if not to subdue Rebellion at least to defend Governt ー was very encouraging; but as I find by your letters delivered to me by Lt [Henry] Collins that you have been obliged from the violence...
Date: 2 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
There being great reason to suspect that His Majesty's Rebellious Subjects in America, are supplied with Gunpowder, Arms and Ammunition from the Coast of Africa, to which large quantities of those Articles are sent from Europe in the way of Trade; It is the King's pleasure that one of His Majesty's Ships of War, such as your Lordships shall think fit, be Dispatched as soon as may be, to the Coast...
Date: 29 August 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Sir, After having, in my Separate Letter of this day's date said so much upon the ideas which have been adopted of the great risque & little advantage that are to be expected from the Army continuing at Boston during the Winter season, unless a more favourable Prospect opens, & having also repeatedly suggested the advantages of recovering possession of New York, I have...
Date: 5 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
As it is of great consequence to His Majesty's Service in the present State of Affairs in North America that His Majesty's Ships of War stationed there should not be employed in any other Services than those to which they are appointed by the Admiral; I am commanded by The King to signify to you His Majesty's pleasure that you do not take upon you to send to England any such Ships that may be...
Date: 5 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Lord Dartmouth to the Lords Commissioners of the British Admiralty, September 12, 1775, First Letter
It having been represented that The King's Subjects in North America in Rebellion against His Majesty's Government have found means of preventing His Majesty's Fleet & army from being supplied with such provisions and Stores as are necessary for their Subsistence and may be procured in several of the Colonies; I am commanded by The King to signify to your Lordships His Majesty's Pleasure that...
Date: 12 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2