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Our Vice Admiralty Courts have lately had some business from the prizes brought in here by Admiral Gayton's squadron. A sharp lookout is kept at the windward passage, and scarce any thing escapes them. Two vessels were brought in yesterday, prizes to a sloop of war. The people on the island are in some measure glad of these helps, the prizes having always a loading very acceptable; yet they wish...
Date: 15 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I have given such orders for the embarkation of the Fiftieth Regiment, agreeable to his Majesty's pleasure signified to me by your Lordship, that no time will be lost in getting them brought in from the different Quarters, and then sending them to the Army in North America and I shall be ready to obey His Majesty's Commands in the Case of an Attack by the Rebels on West Florida as far as the...
Date: 6 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
In my Letter of the 30th of last March I acquainted you of my having Seiz'd one William Platt as being concernd in taking the Ammunition and Warlike Stores Belonging to Government out of the Ship Philippa at Georgia and that as I had apprehended him in the Body of the Island I imagined he came under the Jurisdiction of the Governor ー
I beg leave to acquaint their Lordships that after I had got...
Date: 13 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
My Lord I have the Honor to inclose to your Lordship, Copies of several Letters and Affidavits which I have received within these few days, from the Superintendant the Council and Magistrates upon the Mosquito Shore, and from Mr. [Alexander] Blair part owner with Doctor [Charles] Irving of the Sloop Morning Star, and her Cargo.2
The Satisfaction the first of these Letters gave me,...
Date: 14 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I beg leave to acquaint their Lordships that His Majestys Ship Antelope Sail'd Yesterday with the First Convoy and that it was my Intentions to have Strengthen'd it with the Squirrel had it not been for the repeated Solicitations from the Governor to bring in by Sea the several Companies of that Regiment which were Detatch'd in different parts of the Island To His first Application I answer'd...
Date: 14 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Instructions.
The Princess Royal to Hoist a Pendant when the Antelope Hoists hers, and to lead, and at Night to carry a Stern light, and in case of seeing Sails a Head to Join the Antelope.
To Lead
The Princess Royal
Larboard Beam,
Antelope
Starboard Beam
The Morant
Convoy
Augustus Caesar
To bring up the Rear
The John ー
N B ー The four Ships Appointed to protect...
Date: 17 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
The 10th instant arrived in Port Royal harbour his Majesty's armed schooner the Brunswick, commanded by Lieutenant Cha[d]ds, with two American brigs which she had taken near Monte Christi. They were laden with powder, muskets, hand granadoes, &c. and were bound to Nantucket.
Date: 17 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
James McGlashen of the Parish of Kingston in the said Island Gentn being duly Sworn maketh Oath & saith, that on the second day of March last, he this Deponent sail'd from the Harbor of Kingston in a Sloop or Vessel call'd the Sampson, whereof one Joseph Miller, was then Master & Commander, and that the said Sloop was laden with Dry Goods to the Amount of about three hundred Pounds...
Date: 19 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
A pamphlet has been circulated here under the title of "CommonSense," which was sent hither from America. It is written with great virulence against the English administration; and its design is to stir up the colonists to assert their independency on the mother country. There are many false assertions in it, one of which Admiral Gayton had thought proper to contradict in the Jamaica Gazette, in...
Date: 29 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Herewith you'll receive a Duplicate of my Letter of the 2nd inst, and I beg leave to acquaint their Lordships that His Majestys Ship Boreas Sail'd the 3rd inst with the 50th Regiment for North America and Inclos'd is the Embarkation return of that Regiment for their information
I likewise beg leave to acquaint them that His Ma jestys Sloop Atalanta arriv'd the 8th instant from Barbadoes and that...
Date: 25 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Pursuant to my Lords Commissioners of the Admtys direction,
You are carefully to avoid Cruizing off the Ports, or approaching so near the Coasts of the French & Spanish Possessions within the Limits of your Station, as to give any unnecessary umbrage or interruption to the Subjects or Trade of those Nations, or any just cause of Complaint which you are likewise to direct Lieutenant [James]...
Date: 29 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I have the pleasure to inform their Lordships, that since my letter of the 5th of last Month, Martial Law has been taken off, and that Peace & Tranquility is again restor'd to the Inhabitants, and beg leave to inclose for their information a Copy of a Letter I receiv'd from the Governor on that Subject.
I likewise beg leave to acquaint them that His Majestys Ship Winchelsea Captain [Nathaniel...
Date: 3 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Herewith you'll receive Duplicates of what I sent you by the last Packet
I beg leave to acquaint their Lordships that the 17th of last Month, a French Frigate arriv'd Command'd by The Chevr de Monteil, the occaision of His coming was to claim a Rebel Schooner which had been Seiz'd by His Majestys Ship Squirrel and sent into Port Royal; The Chevalier in his claim sets forth, that she was taken...
Date: 8 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The 13th instant by the Comet Packet, I had the Honor of Receiving a Duplicate of your Letter of the 14th Septr last, acquainting me of your having great reason to believe the Rebels had an Intention of Invading West Florida and Requesting that I would send to Pensacola with all Convenient Speed, Such part of my Squard[r]on as could be Spared from the Jamaica Station
In answer to which I beg...
Date: 25 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
The Lady Keith armed schooner has been remarkably successful in her cruizes. She is just returned with two prizes, which she took off the island of Hispaniola; they sailed from the continent together, but parted in a gale of wind. The Lady Keith fell in with one of them first, which she took, and the next day met with the other, and has brought them both in here. They are laden with provision and...
Date: 1 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Herewith you'll receive Duplicates of my Dispatches of the 16th November last. The 6th of Decr I had the Honor of receiving their Lordships Original orders for Employing the Racehorse & Badger as Sloops, instead of Cutters, and to use my best endeavours either to take or destroy such of the American Continental Frigates as might appear within the limits of my Station, duplicates of which I...
Date: 8 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Tuesday a tender belonging to the Antelope, Mr. Willet, commander, arrived at Port Royal; she brought in here a man whom she took up at sea, off the north side of the island, a few days since, who gives the following account of himself: His name, he says, is Thomas Cobham; that he was gunner of an American privateer, called the Lively, of 14 carriage guns, which foundered in a gale of wind, and...
Date: 10 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Since I closed my dispatches, I have received Information of two American Privatiers having cut out a Ship nearly loaded, from one of the Harbours on the North side of the Island, which obliges me instead of sending the Winchelsea to follow the Maidstone, for the Protection of the Convoy expected from England (which I inform'd their Lordships was my intention) to station her on the North side, in...
Date: 11 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Pursuant to an order from Clark Gayton Esqr Vice Admiral of the White and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels Employed and to be Employed at Jamaica &ca To us directed, dated the 9th March 1777
We whose names are hereunto Subscrib'd, have been on board His Majesty's Ship Lively, and taken a Strict carefull, and Impartial Survey on her Defects, and find them as follows Vizt...
Date: 18 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
By his Majestys Ship Glasgow Captain [Thomas] Pasley, I received their Lordships several orders, and by the Packet your Letter of the 4th December last, with an Account of a French Armament fitting out at Brest, and destined for the West India Islands, all which I shall pay due attention to. I beg you'll inform their Lordships that from repeated Solicitations of the Merchants I have detain'd his...
Date: 20 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8