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Though my Time is exceedingly taken up in making out Pardons for Rebels, who are coming in for them by Hundreds; I cannot omit the Opportunity of Lord Shuldham's sailing without congratulating Your Lordship on the repeated Successes of our short Campaign. Every Particular of Importance Your Lordship wiil read in the public Dispatches; and therefore I will only say, what is the general Sentiment...
Date: 1 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Lord H[owe]. who has been indisposed for two or three Days with a bilious Cholic, was happily recovered this Morning. Under Providence, what immense Consequences depend at present upon this single Man's Life!
Many Prizes brought in & more expected from the Delaware. We have about 8 Cruizers in that Part, which are likely to incercept [i.e., intercept] a large Number of Vessels from the W....
Date: 3 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
The Roebuck, Falcon, and other Ships of War, have taken and sent in a great Number of Prizes in the Course of the last Week.
The Daphne, Capt. [St. John] Chinnery, arrived on Friday from a Cruize, and brought in 15 Sail with her. An Officer on board says, that she came up with every Vessel she saw, and is confessed to be one of the swiftest sailing Ships in the Navy.
Date: 6 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
The Bristol, Adml. Lord Shuldham, sailed this Day for England. The Wind being fair, 'tis supposed she got out to Sea this Evening.
Many Prizes are continually sent in by the Ships of War; but the Captors have been much distressed for a Court of Admty for their Condemnation. The Govr. [Tryon] has often mentioned the matter to me, and discoursed of the Legality & Expediency of allowing the Vice...
Date: 8 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
The Govr. [Tryon Jhas ordered the Institution of a Court of Admty, and appointed it to open next Week. This matter, I fear, will occasion some Difficulties, if not Disagreements.
Date: 10 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
On Wednesday last, the 8th Instant; the Bristol, Vice Admiral Lord Shuldham, sailed for England; and, as the Wind was fair, got out to Sea immediately.
Many Prizes have been sent into the Harbor in the Course of the last Week; and the Ships are playing Havock with the Rebel Privateers. Some of the Frigates with Copper bottoms outsail every thing they see; and the swiftest Privateers of the Rebels...
Date: 13 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Jany 1777
Monday 13
Moord off New York
at 7 pm a large quantity of Ice coming a thwart Hawse parted the Best Br Cable
Tuesday 14
at 4 am the small Br Wa'l cut likewise by the Ice, loos'd sails & got the Ship under Command to clear the Ice, made the Sigl of distress at 6 drove ashore off Yellow Hook hoisted the Boats out & carried out the stream Anchor & Cable at 7 made the...
Date: 14 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Being yet unable, from the Effects of a late Illness, to attend much to Business, I must hope their Lordships will permit me on the present occasion to refer them for Information respecting the State and Disposition of this Fleet, to the Returns and Copies of Instructions to the Commodores Sir Peter Parker and Hotham, herewith enclosed.
To those Papers I have added the Duplicate of a Letter I...
Date: 15 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
We have been out on a cruise, and have taken 14 prizes, 12 of which we sent into this place, and two we burnt at sea, after taking out their cargo, for which I expect to share two or 300 pounds.
Date: 18 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
The Ships of War are daily sending in Prizes. There is an immense Number at present in this Harbour, and some of considerable Value. Several of them are laden with Ammunition and military Stores.
By a Person just arrived from the northern Parts of this Province, we are informed, that the two Frigates of 24 Guns each, long since ordered by the Congress to be built at Poughkeepsie, are launched and...
Date: 20 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
January 1777
Tuesday 21st
Moored off the Town of New York
at 2 PM made the Signal for all petty Officers
Mod & Clear Wr At 5 PM the Alarm was given that some part of the Town was on Fire hoisted the Boats out and sent Officers & a party of Seamen with Bucket[s] and the Fire Engine ashore, had every thing in readiness to haul the Ship out into the Stream At ½ past 10 the Officers...
Date: 21 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Thursday last, a Schooner and Sloop were sent in by the Unicorn: They were both bound for Virginia, from Boston, and are loaded with Rum and Sugar: By Letters found on board the Prizes, it appears, that several other Vessels were soon to follow them from the same Place, intended for the southern Colonies.
Date: 27 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
A Ship of War (the Greyhound) with 13 Sail of Transports, & 2000 Troops on broad [i.e., board] came down Connecticut Sound this Morning. The Rebels about W. Chester instantly scampered away, from an evident Belief, that they were intended to land & cut off their Retreat.
Date: 30 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
you having given your parole to his Excellency general Howe to return into the City of New York in Six Weeks from the Date thereof in case of Failure of Sending in Mr John Loring in exchange for yourself and he was already exchanged before you reached Boston of Course your Engagement Could not be Complied with you are therefore still considered a prisoner on your parole until some proper person...
Date: 1 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
The Milford Frigate lately took a large Merchant Ves.sel, mounting twenty Guns, bound to Virginia, and a Brig, bound to France, at one Time within Sight of the Town of Boston.
The Hancock built for 36 Guns, has neither Men nor Guns. The Alfred of 32 Guns is not half manned; and another Vessel, which they have converted to a Ship of War, is in the same Situation.
It is said, that though the Alfred...
Date: 10 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
General Howe having desired that Convoy might be provided for the Security of three Transports appropriated for the Reception of the Officers and Recruiting Parties of the 6th and 14th Regiments destined for England, I have appointed the Carysfort for that Service. Captain Fanshawe, charged with this Dispatch, is directed to forward the same by Express from Plymouth; And getting the Ship made...
Date: 13 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Enclosed herewith I transmit an Account of Officers promoted by me in consequence of their Lordships permission for that purpose,2 to Vacancies occasioned by the Resignation of Captain [Alexander] Scott; Changes for Duty, allowed for the most Part, in compliance with the Requests of the Vice Admiral Lord Shuldham and Commodore Sir Peter Parker, when they moved from the different Ships...
Date: 13 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
I have received their Lordships Commands of the 31st of August, to inquire into the Truth of the Facts stated in a Letter from Lord George Germain, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, of the 16th of the same Month; Into the Conduct of Officers commanding such of His Majesty's Ships as were stationed in Nantasket Road, or appointed to cruize in the Bay of Boston, since the...
Date: 20 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Enclosed herewith you will receive the Copy of a Letter from Captain Elphinstone, in Answer to a Representation from the Master of the Dinah Victualling Transport, charging Captain Elphinstone with Inattention to the Ships under his Convoy, on his passage to this Port. A Copy of the Representation was transmitted with my Letter of the 23d of last October.
I have examined the Journal and Log-Book...
Date: 22 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
We hear, that several Ships laden with Tobacco and bound for France, under Convoy of the Randolph Frigate, built by the Rebels, have stolen out from Philadelphia and got to Sea. It is supposed, that some of the late Gales of Wind had driven the King's Ships from their Station near the Capes; but 'tis not improbable, that a good Account may be given of some of them before they can .cross the...
Date: 24 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7