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Sir I desire You will please to acquaint the Right Honble, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that on the 14th Instant I returned from visiting the other Islands and found His Majesty's Ship Hind here: She arrived the day before from North America.
I have received a Duplicate of your Letter of the 7th September, as also your letter of the 13th October last, enclosing Captain [William]...
Date: 22 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
By James Young Esqr Vice Admiral of the Red &c.
Vice Admiral [William] Parry, having delivered me an Anonymous Letter he had just received from St Croix dated the 10th May 1775, (a Copy of which is annexed) acquainting him that a Combination is between that Place and the British Colonies of America, and that He (the writer) was informed they had shipped from that Place to Norfolk in Virginia...
Date: 10 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Please to acquaint my Lords Commissrs, [of] the Admiralty that I arrived at this place in His Maj[ts Shi]p Portland (with the Pomona Sloop in Company) the [1st in]stant, and have taken Command of his Majesty's Ships [&] Vessels in these Seas: And shall forthwith put in execution their Lordships Orders and Instructions to me, [da]ted the 15th April last; likewise such unexecuted and [St]anding...
Date: 10 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
You are hereby required and directed forthwith to reeve the Provisions on board his Majesty's Ship under your Comma[nd for] three Months of all Species, and are then to Sail to the Island [of] Dominica, there to complete your Wood and Water, and having [so] done; you are immediately to proceed to the Island of Barba[does] and apply to William Senhouse Esqr Surveyor General of hi[s Majts] Customs...
Date: 17 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Having Cruised with His Majesty's Sloop under my Command off St. Croix agreeable to your directions of the 10th June last, inclosing an anonymous Letter; setting forth there was a Combination between that Place and the British Colonies of America, and that he (the Writer) was informed they had Shipped from that Place to America, a quantity of Gun Powder and Ammunition; ー I am to acquaint you it...
Date: 3 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Having received certain intelligence that sundry Vessels belonging to No. America go to the French, Dutch & Danish Islands in these Seas, & offer unlimitted prices for Gunpowder & other Warlike Stores I think it my Duty to acquaint you therewith; as so many Vessels come in here, daily from thence, who may have the like directions to purchase it at any rate; And I also hear there is at...
Date: 14 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I had the honor to receive your Letter of the 17th Inst. dated from the Council Chamber at St. Johns in which you inform me the Council of this His Majestys Island Antigua "have no authority to prevent the buying & selling of Merchandize which hath been fairly imported & would advise an application to the Commander in Chief of these Islands for a proclamation to restrain the selling of...
Date: 22 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Having received certain intelligence that sundry Vessels belonging to North America, go to the French Dutch & Danish Islands in these Seas and offer unlimited prices for Gunpowder and other Warlike Stores, I think it my duty, as Commander in Chief of the Kings Ships and Vessels employ'd on this station to acquaint you therewith, and to express my apprehension; that as many of the North...
Date: 22 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
In Consequence of the Letter I received from Captain [Henry] Bryne of the Pomona Sloop the 4th Instant, (of which I inclosed a Copy to you for their Lordships perusal the 8th August p the Creighton, Ross, Master) setting forth that a Schooner from North America arrived at the Island St Croix, in Order to procure Gunpowder for America; and offering any Money for the Purchase &c, and it having...
Date: 30 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir. I entreat you will acquaint my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that it has given me the greatest Concern to perceive by Mr [George] Jacksons Letter of the 20th February last, their Lordships had been pleased to approve all the appointments I had made in Consequence of Captain Gordons Dismission, except that of Lieutenant Young to Command the Pomona; and that their Lordships added "I...
Date: 20 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir I had the honour to receive from Mr Charles Chabert your Excellencys Letter of the 14th Current Complaining that Captain [John] Colpoys of His Britannic Majesty's Ship the Seaford, had on the 10th Instant wrote to desire your permission to Seize an American Vessel (from Philadelphia) then lying in the Road of St. Eustatia; this Letter I certainly disapprove of as he had no Authority or...
Date: 20 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I am to acquaint you I Disembarked the Three Company's of the 60th Regiment at St Augustine the 11th April 1776, agreeable to your directions. On my Arrival there found in the Harbour His Majesty's Armed Schooner Hinchinbrook, Commanded by Lieutenant [Alexander] Ellis, who informed me he had intelligence of the Rebels fitting Arm'd Vessels in the adjacent Rivers. I thought it my duty to give him...
Date: 21 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Please to acquaint my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that pursuant to their Orders to me of the 19th February last I caused publication to be made for Tenders to be delivered from such persons as might have Vessels to dispose of which on due Survey and examination should be deemed fit to be made armed Vessels for the use of His Majesty; and that I have inclosed for their Lordships...
Date: 1 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Last week arrived here his Majesty's ship the Hynd, Capt. [Henry] Bryne, after having landed 3 companies of the 60th regiment in St. Augustine. Being informed on his return, that in a creek near Sunbury in Georgia, a brigantine lay taking in lumber, near which was a ship on the stocks pierced for twenty guns; Captain Bryne, when he arrived off that place, ordered his tender and boats armed, who...
Date: 3 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
This morning arrived the Bellahu tender, Lieutenant Nicholas, belonging to his Majesty's ship Hind. The regret and concern shewn by every person here, for some time past, at the supposed fate of so worthy a man and so good an officer, could only be equalled by the universal joy at his safe arrival. He had undergone a great many hardships, and was chased by some of Hopkins's squardon, but the...
Date: 19 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
(A Copy)
General
No 14.
By James Young Esqre Vice Admiral of the Red, and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels employed at Barbadoes, the Leeward Islands, &c.
Whereas I have received Intelligence that it is become a practice among the American People trading to and from the French, Dutch, and Danish Islands in these Seas, since the Commencement of the late...
Date: 24 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I am now to desire you will be pleased to acquaint my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that the 18th June I received the inclosed Letter marked No 1, from the Master Shipwright of His Majesty's Yard here; Complaining of the great defects discovered by him in Searching his Majesty's Ship Argo, on which I immediately Ordered a careful and Exact Survey to be taken on the defects complained of...
Date: 1 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I entreat you will be pleased to acquaint my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that on the 22d June last died here, The Honble Robert Christian Esqre Judge of the Court of Admiralty for the Island of Antigua, and that I take leave to recommend to their Lordships favour The Honble Edward Byam Esqre of this Island, to Succeed the late Mr Christian as Judge of the Court of Admiralty. I can with...
Date: 1 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
His Majesty's Ship Argo (whereof I am Purser) being Ordered to Victual and be got in readiness to Sail for England (on Account of the bad Condition she is found to be in) I request the favour you will please to permit me to Resign the Pursership of the Argo, in Order to Continue your Secretary; during the time of your Command. I am with the greatest respect, Sir [&c.]
Date: 8 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Whereas the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have directed me to appoint Convoys to the homeward bound Trade from these Islands: You are hereby required and drected to Compleat the Victualing &c of His Majesty's Ship Argo under your Command to three Months, and proceed to Basseterre at the Island of St Christophers; and make known to all such Merchant Vessels as are bound to Great Britain...
Date: 27 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5