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Sir I have the Honour to acquaint You that I arrived here the 17th Instant, in His Majesty's Ship Scorpion, and according to the Orders I received from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, I have directed Mr [John] Tollemache to proceed to Boston and join You.
I have wrote to General [Thomas] Gage of what great utility it would be to His Majesty's Service if a regular and frequent...
Date: 30 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I have the honour to acquaint Your Excellency of my Arrival here in His Majys Ship the Scorpion the 17th of last Month. As I have Orders to dispatch that Ship for Boston to join Admiral [Samuel] Graves, I could not neglect so favorable an Opportunity of conveying my Compts & best Wishes to your Excellency, & imagining that Sir James Wright, & Governor [Josiah] Martin would be desirous...
Date: 1 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On the 8th Instant we had Accounts of another Engagement near Boston: I enclose the printed Paper published here, to give your Lordship an Idea of the kind of Intelligence that is circulated with unremitting Industry round this Part of the Continent: Nineteen out of Twenty firmly believe it; and I cannot express the Mischief it does If General Gage from what I have already wrote does not see the...
Date: 19 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir ー I did myself the honor of writing to Your Excellency by Capt [John] Tollemache, when I mention'd the very deplorable State in which I found this Province. Since the departure of the Scorpion they have proceeded to fresh Acts of Violence, & all legal Goverment is now at an end. Georgia has also been persuaded to join the other Provinces, owing in a great measure to the power, &...
Date: 29 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Mr Speaker & Gentlemen of the Commons House of Assembly When I declined some time ago to comply with your request to adjourn, I too plainly foresaw the unhappy extremities to which many of the People in this Province were hast'ning; & had good grounds to apprehend I should want your advice, & assistance. ー Since that time I have been a Spectator of outrages I little expected ever to...
Date: 15 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Lord, My Letters No 2, 3, & 4, with a Duplicate of No 1, which was sent by the Scorpion, (Via Boston,) will I hope reach your Lordship in Safety. I sent them by the Sandwich Packet Boat which sailed from here the 6th Instant under Convoy of the Tamar. The Man of War saw her 17 Leagues to Sea, & returned here Wedny the 9th ー We are now in such a situation I cannot attempt to send...
Date: 19 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
In answer to Your first question I beg leave to assure You, I do Look upon Sullivan's Island to be a Post of the last consequence. ー
In answer to the second, I can only say that for near four months the Tamer a Sloop of 16 Guns, with the assistance of the Cherokee (a Vessel that hardly deserved the name of an Armed one,) prevented the Rebels getting the least footing upon the Island I am...
Date: 2 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I did myself the Honor to write to Your Excellency by the only two opportunities that offer'd since my Urrival in this Province Capt Tollemache & Mr Logie & was in hopes His Majst Service to the Northward would have permitted some little attention to have been Paid to the Southern Provinces. I have now only to acquaint Your Excellency that this Province has for some time been in a State...
Date: 20 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I have received a message, signed by you, from a set of people who style. themselves a General Committee. The presumption of such an address, from a body assembled by no legal authority, and whom I must consider as in actual and open rebellion against their Sovereign, can only be equalled by the outrages, which obliged me to take refuge on board the King's ships in the harbour.
It deserves no...
Date: 30 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
In the present critical & distress'd situation of Affairs I cannot express how happy I think myself in meeting your Excellency in this Province a Pleasure I have long and ardently wished for. A mature consideration of the state of the two Carolinas and Georgia will I conceive make it very apparent that every rebellious measure which has been adopted in this part of the continent originated in...
Date: 1 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
My Lord On the 30th of November the Scorpion with the Transport under her Convoy arrived here having Governor Martin on board, who, I soon found, had left Cape Fear only to secure the Scorpion's immediate return, his situation has long been very disagreeable on board a very small Sloop and it was natural for him to wish to keep the Ship appointed to the North Carolina Station, and he therefore...
Date: 1 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3