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Please to acquaint my Lords Comm[issioners] of the Admiralty, that on the 21st Instt A.M. I Sailed from [the] Road, in Company with His Majesty's Sloop Pomona, wh[ose Com]mander I have Ordered to accompany me to Antigu[a] pursuant to their Lordships directions. The 22d the Wi[nd came] to the So Wt & blowes strong, with heavy squalls of Rain [Th]erefore put into Torbay, and Anchored, 'till the...
Date: 24 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Gentelman I have Jest Recd your order for Some Flower & am Much plesd that I have it in in Kingston to suply But am Sorrey that it is out of My power to give That Assistance in Despaching it to Watertown I should be glad to Having gest Recd Inteligence Half an ouer ago of a Vessel at some part of Bozards Bay 600 Bushls of good Corn 140 bb of flower 80 bb of pork which Capt Sopers Was so...
Date: 4 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Not having heard, or imagining that there will be any alteration in the measures relative to North America, I have written a letter to Mr [Philip] Stephens which I have desired him to communicate to your Lordship, directing some farther reinforcements which are pointed out by Admiral [Samuel] Graves as Necessary; and which if approved by your Lordship & the rest of His Majesty's confidential...
Date: 29 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I have Agreable to the order of Court purchased A Sloop to observe the Motions of the Enemy & give Intelligence you may if you please call her the Swift Capt [John] Wigglesworth the Bearer of this I have Appointed to the Command of her he now waits on you for your Orders & to get some powder & other Ammunition & perhaps A few Articles which cant be Obtained here. you will please...
Date: 22 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, Plimouth, ss.
A Libel is filed before me against the sloop called the Sally, burthen about 75 tons, commanded by Cornelius White, and said to be improved in supplying the Fleet and Army employed against the United Colonies, and brought into the county of Plimouth. And the court erected to try and condemn all vessels that shall be found infesting the sea coast of...
Date: 27 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
The Committee appointed to view the Sea Coast To the Southward of Boston have proceeded to a Place Called the Gurnet at the entrance of the Harbour of Plimouth, Kingston, Duxbury, and Marshfield ー and Whereas the State of our affairs are Such and the Harbour, with the height of Ground on Said Gurnet, (a plan of which we herewith inclose to your honours) beg leave to make the following report viz...
Date: 17 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Since I arrived here, I have really had a scene quite novel to me. The Brig Defence from Connecticut put in here for Balist. The officers who are all from thence and who were intimately acquainted at Dr. Lothropes, invited his Lady to come on board and bring with her as many of her Friends as she could collect. She sent an invitation to our Friend Mrs. W[arre]n and to us. The brig lay about a...
Date: 17 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I wrote your Excellency on the 20th April ultimo Desiring that the papers might be remitted to me, which were taken with the two prizes bro't into this port Last Winter by Capt [William] Coit. ー2 my Letter must have miscaried, as I have recd no answer to it ー on this account the Tryal of these two Vessels has been postponed from time to time, as no evidence can be had against them but...
Date: 19 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Libels are filed before me against the Brigantine called the Fanny, burthen about 75 Tons, commanded by Richard Blythe. And against the Schooner Peggy, burthen about 90 Tons, commanded by Samuel Gilstone; said Vessels are to be improved in carrying Supplies to the Fleet and Armyemployed against the United Colonies, and taken and brought into the Counties of Plimouth and Bristol. And the Court...
Date: 20 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
...I Congratulate you on the discovery of the Plot at New York. hope it will do great service. I Expect soon to hear of Some great Events from that quarter if they should be favourable to us what will they do next We have but little News here. now & then A prize from the West Indies is sent in. last Saturday got into Cape Ann two prizes taken by A small Sloop belonging to four or five persons...
Date: 10 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Capt [Sion] Martindale, the bearer of this will Inform your Excellency that he, when he was about to sail in the Continental arm'd Brigantine the Washington, was obligd to draw on the Agent, for sundry Articles in the Cloathing way, (for the use of his people who were almost naked, and without which they co'd not go to sea) amounting to £ 80 L Money, which were delivd & by Capt Martindale...
Date: 8 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Taken up by the Company stationed at Plimouth for the Defence of the Sea Coast, the Hull of the Sloop called the Smilling Molley, with her Name wrote on her Stern, with white Paint, is almost 90 Tons burthen, appears to be about two Years old, was scuttled and drifting along Shore when found, the 24th of August current, about 5 Miles to the Northward of the Light House on the Gurnet, is painted...
Date: 31 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Vice Adml Sir Jas Douglas, Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships at Portsmouth having in his Letter of the 22nd instant acquainted my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that a Fever supposed to be infectious, had got into His Majesty's Ship the Lark which was appointed one of the Convoy now going out as mentioned in my Letter to your Lordship of the 23rd of this Month; and my Lords judged...
Date: 25 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
My Lords Commissioners of the Admty having received a Petitionfrom Mr John Strettell, in behalf of himself & others the Merchants of London trading to Canada, praying that a Convoy may be appointed to protect the homeward bound Ships from Quebec the ensuing Autumn, which usually sail on the 25th October. I am commanded by their Lordships to send you the inclosed Copy of the said Petition, and...
Date: 27 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
His Majesty's ship Galatea got under sail on Wednesday last [June 26] for America; but an express arrived to stop her until further orders, and it is now said she is going to Jamaica. The Commissioner paid the officers and seamen belonging to her two months advance before she got under weigh.
Arrived his Majesty's sloop the Hound, with money to pay the artificers of his Majesty's dock-yard, from...
Date: 29 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Came in this day the fleet with the Hessian troops on bord, under convoy of his majesty's ships Ambuscade, Diamond, and Unicorn, from Portsmouth, and will sail as soon as the wind permits for America.
Date: 7 July 1776
Volume: Volume 6
You are hereby required and directed to proceed with His Majesty's Sloop under your Command to the Harbour of St Johns or to such other Port in the Island of Newfoundland as you shall learn Vice Admiral [John] Montagu may be at; and upon joining him you are to deliver to him the inclosed Pacquet and follow his orders for your further proceedings. Given &c the 11th of July 1776
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Date: 11 July 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Yesterday in the afternoon, the wind coming round, Capt. [Charles] Fielding in his Majesty's ship the Diamond, with two other men of war, and all the transports under their convoy, that have been windbound here for some time, all sailed for America.
Date: 20 July 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Whereas we have directed Capt [Richard] Smith of His Majesty's Ship the Lark to proceed to Cork to Convoy from thence to North America such Victuallers as may be laden with Povisions for the use of the Army under Genl Howe, And whereas we intend that you shall also Convoy to America such other Victuallers for the said Army as may be ready to sail a Fortnight after the departure of the Lark; You...
Date: 24 July 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Last Night arrived the Mercury, of Nantucket, for London, taken the 25th of July [sic June] by the Cerberus, Captain Symonds [John Symons] , off Block Island, from her Return on a Whale Voyage; she has also on board a Cargo of a Schooner which had been also a Whaling, which the Cerberus burnt: The Master of the Prize is Henry Spencer, who says the Cerberus has taken sixteen Prizes;
Date: 26 July 1776
Volume: Volume 6