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Sr As soon [as] I was honored with your Letter of the 14th Instant desiring to be informed if an English Ship from Virginia loaded with Tobacco had lately put into this Port, I made the strictest enquiries to discover the truth of this Intelligence, and accordingly find that an English Ship about 200 Tons burthen whose name is the Catherine Captain Paton Master put into this Port directly from...
Date: 18 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Captain Johnston [Henry Johnson] of the Yankee Privateer, who made his Escape from some Ship in the River, was lately at this Place, and after staying a few Days, went, I was told, further up the Country.
Date: 24 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I now beg leave to add to my former letters to your Lordship, that I have not the smallest doubt that the Cutter will sail when ready, which may be in about a week hence, & accompanied by the Lugger, unless orders come from Versailles in the interim to prevent it.
I take the liberty of observing to your Lordship, that in case it should be judged proper to send any vessels on this Coast to...
Date: 23 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I have the honour to inform Your Lordship that the Cutter, the Greyhound,2 has this day taken her Guns on board, amounting to 14. four Pounders, as also a large proportion of Shot & Grape Shot. The Guns were not mounted but put directly into the hold with their Carriages, & this Embarkation was made without any particular precautions or secrecy whatever. I have likewise the...
Date: 3 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I beg leave to inform Your Lordship that it is now confidently said that the Greyhound Cutter2 will be navigated from hence to l'Orient, Nantes, or some other Port at the other end of the Channel by a french Master &Crew, &that Cunningham & his People will go by land to join their Vessel. There are reasons to suppose that the Cutter will put into Havre de Grace, as I find...
Date: 5 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I beg leave to acquaint Your Lordship that the Speedwell Sloop & Wells continue still in the Road, but propose, I believe, returning to the Downs on friday next, in order to know if the Commanding Officer of His Majtys Ships there has received any orders concerning their future destination.
I have likewise the honour to inform Your Lordship that, on the 13th Inst, the Commandant of the Marine...
Date: 15 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9