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Sir, Yesterday I arrived in this port, with His Majesty's Ship under my Command, from New London, on a cruise, of which I had the honour to acquaint You, the 8th instant.
Since my absence from this Place, I find the Inhabitants (they say here of Providence) have seized upon the King's Cannon that was upon Fort Island, consisting of six twenty-four Pounders, eighteen eighteen Pounders, fourteen...
Date: 12 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
Upon the faith of the general Laws of Society, and imagining Myself in the King's Dominions, I Yesterday did Myself the Pleasure to spend the Evening with some Gentlemen of your Town, when to my great Surprize I was informed that some of your People intended to attack and insult me; Conscious to Myself, I never gave any Cause of Offence to any Person, and that it must be my Office they meant to...
Date: 15 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
Sir I think every Intelligence however trifling, relating to the King's Service, proper for your Information, which is an Apology for the following, ー Last Night I was sitting at Mr. [George] Romes, with some Gentlemen of the Town of Newport, when a Man came into the House and said there was a Mob raising with an Intent to tarr and feather the Captain of the Man of War, and the Man of the House...
Date: 15 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
Herewith I acquaint you of my Safe Arrivall at this port after a tedious Residen[ce] at Swansy in the State of Massachusetts Bay of five months I arrived the 8 Inst with 32 other mast[e]r[s] & 90 Seamen in a Cartel appointed for the exchang[e] of Prisoners this day Arrived here the Ship Tho[ma]s Late Collison master having been Captur'd by the Same Sloop I had the misfortune to fall in with...
Date: 16 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Pursuant to your order of the 17 Instant directed to Capt Maximilian Jacobs Commander of His Majestys Ship Amazon; We assembled on board His Majs Ship Centurion this Morning in consequence of a Summons from the said Capt Maxn Jacobs to attend a Court Martial: On being seated, and the order read; We were much surprized to find it an order to try Lieut John Thomas Duckworth, Mr Charles Rex Gunner,...
Date: 19 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
We are engaged in fixing out Captain Peter Roberts, the bearer, in a small sloop, for a privateer, and have to ask the favour of you to assist him in procuring a commission for that purpose, as we are all pretty much engaged in privateers, powder vessels, recruits, &c., and cannot, with any convenience, come down. If you will stand in with Captain Roberts, as a bondsman, we hereby engage to...
Date: 8 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
June 1777
Monday 2nd
At Single Anchor in Newport Harbour
AM Recd Water Served fresh fish to the Ships Company.
First part Mode and fair Middle and latter fresh Breezes and Cloudy.
At 5 PM weighed and made sail in Company with the Juno and Amazon. at 8 Rhode Island Light house NW 3 or 4 Miles.
Tuesday 3rd
at 4 AM set small sails. at 6 Block Island NW 5 or 6 Leagues. at 9 AM the Amazon...
Date: 3 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9