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I beg your Excellency's Pardon for not sooner Answering your Letter of the 28th but I immediately ordered Captain [John] Robinson to arrange the Transports for their greater Security.
I expect the Merlin in every day, when the Scorpion now in the Light House Passage shall take the Symmetry's Birth. In the mean time, if your Excellency consents, I will send a Lieutenant to Command the Symmetry,...
Date: 1 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I am sorry to give your Excellency farther trouble to explain what I thought had been clearly expressed in My last letter with respect to the Symmetry.
Mr Dickenson Complained that for want of proper Authority he could not perform the Service expected from that Armed Vessel, And your Excellency in your letter Augt 1. by that officer Mentions that you are under the Necessity of ordering her away ー...
Date: 5 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Yesterday I received two Letters from the Captains of His Majs. Ships Somerset and Boyne ー Captain [Broderick] Hartwell says the Night before last forty Whale Boats, and three large Boats with Masts assembled under Moon Island; He thinks the Rebels in them will attempt to burn some of the King's Ships, and that they are probably encouraged to such a proceeding from their knowledge how few Men are...
Date: 5 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir I acquainted you in my last that there was one Barton a Ship Carpenter who had been employed on Lake Ontario, had promised to give to me proposals for the raising such a Number of Carpenters & Mariners as you proposed in your Letter to me; I now inclose you his proposals to me for that purpose, which I think Reasonable; & under the Terms he has proposed, I think they cannot be engaged...
Date: 7 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Inclosed Your Excellency will receive An Account of the Number of Men at present employed in the Symmetry and Scows belonging to the Men of War. Also Captain [Thomas] Bishop's Answer to me on sending that part of your Excellency's Letter of the 5th Inst wherein his Conduct is blamed the day the Light House was burned; I hope Captain Bishop's Letter will satisfy Your Excellency it was not in his...
Date: 7 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Having received your Order to hold myself in perfect readiness for proceeding to Sea with the Empress of Russia Transport, it becomes incumbent on me to inform your Excellency, that by death and Sickness and the number of her Crew that have entered on board the Kings Ships, She is so reduced in her strength that she cannot be Navigated from Port to Port without assistance. I am therefore to beg...
Date: 8 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I have sent the Lively in quest of the Transports under the direction of Lieutt Evans, and hope she will fall in with, and convoy them safe to Boston. I am Sir, [&c.]
Date: 13 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The letters wrote by Mr. Hallowell to Admiral [Samuel] Graves between the 3d and 20th of July last, respecting Mr. Hallowell's property and the conversation had on that subject, prior to the 11th. of august instant, being already laid before the General, he proceeds now to give a Narrative of what passed between them on that day.
When Mr. Hallowell in the street saw the Admiral and as he could...
Date: 14 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I am really concerned your Excellency has so much trouble with the Transports people. It is very true many of their Seamen are on board the King's Ships and it is also certain that when Seamen are bent upon leaving a ship no Consideration stops them, And that before the 19th of April had they not been taken in the Men of War, they would absolutely have deserted.
To prevent if possible any farther...
Date: 14 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I can only say in answer to that part of your Excellency's letter Augt 9. respecting the Bay of Fundy that two Armed Schooners Vizt the St Lawrence and Hope sailed from hence the 21st ulto with orders to proceed to Annapolis [Royal] and Windsor and bring with them all Vessels they may find laden or nearly ready to depart for Boston. I hope No unforseen accident will prevent their executing that...
Date: 14 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir Since my last Letter to your Excellency I have entered into an Agreement with Mr. Barton for procuring the number of Ship Carpenters & Seamen you proposed to be raised here, and I was informed by him Yesterday that he had procured Thirty Six in the whole about one half Carpenters and the other Seamen, that he could have compleated the whole number before now; but chooses to have such men...
Date: 16 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir I have by this Conveyance sent you the result of his Majesty's Council upon the present Circumstances of the Colony upon a Supposed intended Invasion; the Americans may project an Invasion for several purposes, to deprive the Armies from any supplies from hence, to possess themselves of the Militiary Stores here, among which are near 300 pieces of Cannon, Serviceable & unserviceable, but...
Date: 18 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The letters which I wrote to Admiral [Samuel] Graves between the 3d & 20th July, respecting my grass on Gallop's island and the conversation had on that subject prior to the 11th instant, I have already taken leave to lay before your Excellency and complained of that Gentleman's detaining from me my property. and being very desirous to hear from Admiral Graves himself why he persisted in such...
Date: 19 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I must beg your Excellency's pardon for omitting to mention in my Narrative that I had received two different challenges from Mr. Thomas Graves, Nephew to Admiral [Samuel] Graves, soon after the Affair which happen'd between me and the Admiral on the 11th. instant.
As these Messages were expressly said to have been in consequence of what happen'd between the Admiral and me on that day, I conceive...
Date: 20 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir I have the honour to inform your Excellency that I arrived here the 31st of July with a Detachment under my command of the 14th Regiment consisting of two Lieutenants, three Serjeants, three Corporals, one Drummer, & Sixty private men of which I should have acquainted you immediately upon our arrival if there had been an opportunity. We have been hitherto divided on board two Men of war...
Date: 20 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Having been for several weeks past, confined on board his Majesty's Ships as the Bearer of some exceptionable Letters, I was yesterday admitted to an interview with the Admiral; by his direction I have told him a state of facts which I presume must justify my Conduct to every candid Mind. ー By the Admiral I am informed, that your interference is necessary to my Enlargementー
Suffer me to entreat...
Date: 23 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I have put with this a Coop to your address, which contains 6 Geese, 12 Ducks, & 12 Fowls, which please do me the favour to accept. ー I sent you a Sheep in June, but by some mistake it was delivered to General [Frederick] Haldiman[d]. ー Your late acquisition of Sheep & Bullocks &c. will, I apprehend, render these articles plenty with you at present ー Eggs & Butter are scarce...
Date: 26 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having ordered Lieutenant Colonel Collins to proceed to Boston and take upon him the command of His Majestys Marine Forces serving on Shore in North America in the room of the late Major [Thomas] Pitcairn, I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint your Excellency therewith and have the honor to be [&c.]
Date: 5 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1