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I wrote you this morning that 30 sail of the enemy's fleet were moved down the river, since which it appears that their whole fleet is in motion. From our church steeple I can see 60 or 70 sail of vessels of different kinds, hovering about the mouth of James's river. What they mean is impossible to tell.
Date: 23 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I send you four men under guard, who were taken on Monday, on board a brig from Barbadoes, bound for Dunmore. Early on Monday morning, we had information that a brig was aground off Willoughby's point. Major [Andrew] Leitch immediately made all possible haste, with twelve men, on board a small pilot boat which was in the bason, loaded with tobacco for the West Indies, in order to examine what she...
Date: 26 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I have directed the Bearer to Call on you for Some Cordage Which I am in great want of for the use of the Boat Liberty. I cant doe without it as we are obliged to Cruse Constantly on acc[oun]t of the number of men of war we have here. I am Sir [&c.]
Date: 13 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
You will be pleased, through your paper, to return capt. Squires, of his majesty's ship Otter, my warmest thanks for his very kind hospital treatment of my two slaves Aaron and Johnny, from the county of King and Queen, during their stay on board his ship. The publick may be informed, that upon notice given me that they were on board, I applied by my overseer on wednesday last, through mr. [...
Date: 4 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Yours of the 10th instant, directed to the committee of the town of Hampton, reciting, "that a sloop tender on his majesty's service was on the 2d instant cast on shore near this place, having on board some of the king's stores, which you say were seized by the inhabitants, and demanding an immediate return of the same, or. that the people of Hampton must answer the consequences of such outrage...
Date: 16 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Resolved unanimously, That the most hearty thanks of this committee, and all those whom they represent, are justly due tb major James Innes, the other gentlemen officers, and to the several volunteer companies now under their command, for so expeditiously and cheerfully marching to our assistance and defence on the alarm occasioned by the threats and several insolent letters of a certain Matthew...
Date: 16 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
For the satisfaction of the public, I shall endeavour to give you as true an account of the late matters at this place as I am able.
Last Wednesday night [October 25] a party of men from the tenders went on shore, and robbed several houses on Mill Creek, nigh Hampton. We heard of this the next morning, and observed the tenders at anchor, no great distance from the place where several vessels had...
Date: 1 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2