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By the Schooner Rochester Capn Elliott you will receive four Thousand five hundred bushels Indian Corn as P Bill of loading inclosed, which doubt not you will dispose of on the best terms you can for my Interest, the Nett proceed thereof you will please to remitt by the first opportunity to Messrs John Norton & Son's in London. I shall write to those Gentlemen to make Insurances &...
Date: 30 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We have lately had a great alarm here about the Governor's removing a large quantity of powder from our magazine and conveying it on board a ship of war: Not less [than] 600 men well armed and mounted assembled at Fredg. on this occasion, with a view to proceed to Wmsburg. [to] recover the powder & revenge the insult: The propriety of such a step was warmly agitated and weighty arguments...
Date: 9 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My last was 6t April, since which I have recd your two favours of 6t Jany and 28 Feby by which I am agreeably informed of the Insurance being made on my Tobo in the Martin, I observe what you say relative to the Virginia. I can assure you that Affair has not given me a little concern, but am in hopes that your letter of Justification will satisfy every unprejudiced person. Your J H.N's delaying...
Date: 16 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My last was the 20th April P Capt McCunn since wch I am favour'd with your two letters of 17th Jany and 18th March the last P Capt Robertson, who went up Rappahanock yesterday. I observe what you say relative to that unhappy Circumstance of the Tea, believe me my friend that matter has not given me a little Concern & sorry I was to observe some other disagreeable Resolves lately published...
Date: 25 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I have received yr several Letters by the Capts Dobbie & Oakam, but have not Leisure to reply to them so fully as I could wish by the present Opportunity.
You will receive but very little of my Tobo by Oakam having shipped upwards of thirty hhds on board the Justitia, Capt Kidd from this River to yr Address ー My Motives for acting in this Manner proceeded from the Confusion of the Times, many...
Date: 4 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Dear Friend . . . A rumour is on the wing that the provincials have stormed Boston & with the Loss of 7,000 have cutt off or taken [Thomas] Gage and all his men. It is but little credited. Indeed the fact is extremely improbable: but the times are so remarkable for strange events; that improbability is almost become an argument for their truth.
. . . Our Burgesses from the County are not...
Date: 19 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I have not written to you for several Months past, except a short Letter June 4th to direct Insurance on 30 hhds Tobo on board the Justitia, Capt Kidd ー He went off with only 17 . . . leaving out 14 . . . wh I had given him Orders for, & wh I have now consigned to you by the Job, Capt Gibson .. . I have at this Time I verily believe more than 5000 Bushels of Wheat for Sale, &...
Date: 1 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
You will be pleased to insure 3002 sterling on 32 hhds of my Tobo on board the Marlborough, George Dawson, Master exclusive of Premium & Policy &c. I have insured very low for the Times, but as I believe the risque is trifling, I am not willing to spend money unnecessarily in Premiums. I shd suppose Tobo will sell for any Price the Importer may think proper to demand for I am afraid the...
Date: 6 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir As I have received every Assistance from Captain [George] Montagu which it was possible to expect from Zeal and Assiduity, it is particularly unfortunate to his Majesty's Service that that Gentleman should be succeeded in the Command of his Majesty's Ships here by Captain [John] Macartney who seems to be actuated altogether by Principles totally different, and to have principally at heart...
Date: 17 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I wrote you 16th past by a Mr Gibbs who went passenger with Capt Miller to which I beg leave to refer I have not recd any letter from you since. The purport of this is to desire you to Insure 7 hhds Tobo in the London at £12 a hhd. The Convention now sitting have determined to Imbody between 3 & 4 thousand Men who are to be quarter'd between Williamsbg & York to divert the Troops on...
Date: 31 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I have received your letter of the 26th instant by Mr. Smith, and am very Sorry, tho not Surprized to learn that you think it necessary to leave Annapolis. The Province of Maryland has hitherto been looked upon as having acted with a degree of moderation in the present unnatural Rebellion subsisting in the Colonies, and I confess I had great hopes from your continuing in your Government, that you...
Date: 30 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
The reason you have not heard from me Sooner, is owing to our having taken the resolution of moving the Fleet from Norfolk to this place, which was effected on the 27th I believe, without the loss of a Single vessel, except three or four that were obliged to be destroyed for want of materials to bring them round. For a description of the Island, the Harbour, and what we are about, I refer you...
Date: 30 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Having been informed by a vessel that arrived here yesterday, that his Majesty's Troops in Garrison at St Augustine, as well as the inhabitants, are in Great want of Provisions; I have therefore lost no time in dispatching my Tender, commanded by Mr [Richard] Whitworth, with a Small Supply of Bread and Flour to you, and every thing besides that could be spared from the numerous Fleet we have here...
Date: 9 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
It was not untill yesterday that I received any certain account of your arrival in America, in which I beg leave to congratulate you.
The circumstances of the Fleet and Army to the Northward has been such, that it has not been in Admiral Shuldhams power, to send me a force Sufficient to authorize me, to make any attempt on Philadelphia; I therefore no sooner heard of your intended expedition...
Date: 10 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I am not a little uneasy at not hearing from you; and yet as you have no vessel with you, I don't well know how I should; nor has it been in my power to send any thing to you; so continually have we been employed.
Mr Goold the Purser of the Liverpool had sailed in search of you, before the Spanish Snow arrived; and after cruizing, as he tells me, for three or four days off Cape Henlopen and Cape...
Date: 10 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Having wrote to you so very lately by Mr [Richard] Whitworth in my Tender, which I dispatched to you the 10th instant, I have very little to communicate to you, by the Lively (whom I wish not to detain a single hour) than to inform you that our situation here is much the same as when I wrote, not having been in the least interrupted by the Rebels.
I have sent the Fowey to Annapolis for Governor...
Date: 24 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
In consequence of Orders from Vice Admiral Shuldham: You are hereby required and directed to cause a proportion of Rice to be issued to the company of His Majestys Ship under your command, on Mondays in lieu of Oatmeal for that Day.
You are likewise required and directed to cause the company of His Majestys Ship under your command to be put at whole allowance of all Species of Provisions, and...
Date: 24 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
July 1776
Monday 8th
At a Single Anchor at Gwin's Island in Virginia
at 6 in the morning the Fowey weighed by order to protect the entrance of the Haven.
Light breezes and clear weather, Received all our Marines on board from the Camp on Gwins Island; and made every thing ready for the Sea;
Tuesday 9th
at 5 in the Morning the Rebels opened Several Batteries on the Fleet, and kept up a...
Date: 9 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
On Sunday last I was informed that Lord Dunmore was landing his troops on Thacker Washington's plantation, a little below Hoo's ferry. About twelve o'clock the same night, the Major of the county came express, to let me know that the fleet was then at Marlborough, a few miles above Boyd's-hole. The alarm was soon spread, and in a very little time the shores were covered with men. I went over...
Date: 22 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
July [1776]
Thursday 25
Sting Ray Point [Virginia] bore WNW
At ½ past 3 A M weighed & came to sail. At 6 do saw a Sail. Set Studding sails & give Chace. She fired a Gun to leeward, & hoisted Rebel Colours. At 9 shoaled our water to ½ Twain, hauled down Studding sails, the Chace being close in Shore. Made sail & stood down the Bay.
The first part mode & fair, the midl...
Date: 25 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5