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Sir The Province having been repeatedly invaded in the Course of less than three Months, by a number of Rebels in Arms, who carried off a Sloop, some Bateaus and other Stores belonging to His Majesty these Enemies by recent intelligence are considerably Augmented, and daily making such preparations as indicate the most hostile intentions against the peace and Tranquility of this Province; and...
Date: 6 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
So many things have happened, & been transacted since my long Letter of the 8th, that I gladly, find myself under the necessity of hereby troubling you with another. On the 8th His Majesty's Ship Niger, from Halifax, anchored here, having sail'd from thence, with the 47 Regiment in three Transports under her Convoy, two of which, are this day safely arrived here, as did on the same day, the...
Date: 15 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
At one O Clock P:M: Mr [Peter] Levius came to see me, & to my great joy inform'd me that the Genl had given his Consent for me to go home on Parole, & that we should sail this afternoon, ー at 5: of the Clock the Town Major Came for Major [Return Jonathan] Meigs & myself, to go to the Lieut Governor. to give our parole, the verbal agreement we made was, that if ever there was an...
Date: 20 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir I conceive your early knowledge, of the possession of this principal key of all North America, being effectually secured to His Majesty, to be of such immense importance, to the public weal, that I cannot excuse myself, from sending, the herewith inclosed duplicates, in the Ship Hope; she being a Transport, which we can very well spare. On the 22d General Carl[e]ton sail'd upwards, in His...
Date: 24 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Having, after finishing my Letter of Yesterdays date, had it confirm'd, from the mouth of an Eye Witness, I can now, with unutterable Satisfaction, congratulate my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, on the certainty, of all the Rebels, who were, at Trois Rivieres, amounting, ('tis said) to about One Thousand, having left that important Post, (where they were casting Shot Shells &ca) with...
Date: 25 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir Having Omitted it, till my dispatches were sealed up, I beg you may be pleased to communicate to my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, my having appointed Mr William Jackson Masters Mate, to be Master of this His Majesty's Ship, which I hope their Lordships will approve...
Chs Douglas
The letter of which the following is a Copy, I have this Moment received from Lieut. Governor...
Date: 26 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
My Letter of the 8th of April off Cork, (sent onshore by the Pilot) informed you of my having sailed thence with the fleet under my Convoy ー I have now the pleasure to inform you of our safe arrival at Quebec, and of our finding that important place in possession of his Majestys troops ー
On the 23d of May we were joined off the Isle Bic by a Sloop with Pilots, and on the night of the 27th all our...
Date: 29 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sr Immediately after the departure of Lieut Fook late of the Lizard, with Duplicates of Genl Carletons & my dispatches which were sent by the Hunter Sloop, intelligence was received from St Ann's of Ships being in the River & all the Pilots we could procure, for the Navigation between Quebec & Montreal were got in readiness to conduct them to three Rivers without Anchoring here....
Date: 26 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
In addition to my Letter of Yesterdays date, I am under the necessity of troubling you with another, whereby to lay before my Lords Commissioners, Various other Matters, ー In the first place the absolute and Palpable necessity of our being omnipotent, on the other Part of this River, as also General Carleton's pressing requisition, as appears by His Excellency's letter of May the 29th in order to...
Date: 27 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir, In addition to the various matters wherewith I troubled their Lord ships by the Kent, I in justice, as it does the Subscribers thereof so much honor, herewith send you by the Ostenbotten (a Swede) the Copy of a Declaration made by the Masters of the Transports, which are below the Rapids, at parting with their Longboats. I moreover thereby intend that their Lordships may be pleased to cause...
Date: 28 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Remarks &ca ー Quebec July 1776. ー
Sunday 21
A M Empd Cleaning between decks, The Carpenter went to inspect into the frame of a Ship on the Stocks.
Cloudy Latter fresh winds, Sail'd by the Tartar Frigate
[Monday 22]
Empd Var[iousl]y, the Carpenter on shore marking the Timbers, on purpose to be taken to pices and sent to St Johns, Lake Champlain ー
Tuesday 23
Fresh breezes and...
Date: 29 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
This is conveyed by the Pearl, having under her Convoy, three Transports carrying round the Rebel Prisoners. And the Tartar, forthwith to be relieved by the Bute at the Isle of Bic, after ranging round a great part of the Gulph of St. Laurence, taking a State of the several Fisheries, & cruizing until the 15th of September between Cape Ray and Scatari, is to wait upon your Lordship.
Very...
Date: 4 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
An Account from St: Johns just received, gives me reason to believe, that the Frame which was building in the Sorel, & which I (with General Carleton's Approbation) ordered to be taken down, before I left Chambly, will be ready for Launching about the 16th and the Maria about the 30th of this Month ー the Lieutenants Butler & Starke2 (such by my Order only) superintend their...
Date: 5 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
My Lord, The Prisoners lately taken at Lake Champlain, the Pearl waited for, being just come down; She sails tomorrow ー By Accounts received from Chambly they go on as briskly as can be expected at St Johns, in putting up the several Frames of Gun-boats, and the two Schooners Maria & Carleton; the latter will be first ready, but I find not so soon as I had reason to believe, by eight or ten...
Date: 10 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
...our business of building, and reconstructing are going on as fast as our paucity of proper hands, will admit of. After a very long passage the Twenty Glasgow Shipwrights, and ten house Carpenters, from Portsmouth, are at last arrived, and are to be hurried up to Chambly from Transport to Transport, Relays whereof are placed, with proper rowing Boats to ensure the Conveyance upwards of the...
Date: 16 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Septembr 1776
Sunday 1st
Moor'd In the Bason of Quebec.
Recd an Order from Captn Douglas at Chambly to send up a Midn & 37 Seamen to serve on the Lakes.
[Light Breezes & Cloudy] Wr at 6 P.M, sent up 37 Men with a Petty Officer to Sorel in the Long Boat left by the Venus Transport ー came down 3 Transportsー
Monday 2d
AM punish'd Thos Brown, Davd Thompson and Matthias Wright for...
Date: 3 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Last week arrived here the Adamant, from London, with General Carleton's Lady and sister, and other female passengers on board; passing the Island of Bicquet, in the River St. Lawrence, with a fair wind, and no Pilot to be got, by twelve o'clock at night, on Sunday fortnight, she, and another ship following her, got on a rock on the east end of Reed Island, by being deceived in the course by a...
Date: 7 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Novemr 1776
Thursday 7
Moored off Quebec
AM Mr Thomas Saunders Grove superseded Mr Burchell the Acting 2d Lieutt unmoored Ship, Weighed & dropped below the Shipping, rec'd on board Fresh Beef. Light airs & hazey, ½ past 4 PM General Burgoyne embarked on board the Isis, the Garrison Saluted him, came on board a Pilot to carry the Ship down.
Friday 8
AM The Isis Weighed, and...
Date: 9 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
The Command of His Majesty's Ships and.Vessels in the River St Lawrence having devolved upon me on the departure of His Majesty's Ships Isis, Captain Douglas, and the Blonde, Captain Pownal, who Sailed from hence the 8th inst. for England, it beirig thought impracticable for them to remain here in safety during the Winter; the Blonde having 64 of her Men upon the Lakes, it was judged more proper...
Date: 15 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I have the honor of enclosing to your Lordship a C<;>py of my Orders from my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and of acquainting you, that I arrived here with His Majesty's Ship under my command the 6th Instant, at 5 o'Clock in the morning, having sailed from Plymouth Sound the 2d of April.
Being Senior Captain in the River Saint Lawrence, immediately on my Arrival, I gave orders to...
Date: 17 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8