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Lieutenant [John] Orde of his Majesty's Ship under my command has acquainted me by letter of this date, that he has in my absence, confined the Boatswain for disobedience of Orders, contempt to his Superior officers & for using mutinous expresss
I am therefore to request you will be pleas'd (when opportunity offers) to order a Court Martial to be held on the said Boatswain to try him for...
Date: 4 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I have had the pleasure to receive your Letter Novr 7. notifying to me your Arrival in his Majs Ship Roebuck at Halifax in Quality of Resident Commissioner there, and also with a Commission appointing you Commander in Chief of his Majs Ships in Halifax Harbour in the Absence of a Flag or Senior Officer, I beg leave most sincerely to congratulate you on these Appointments and to express my...
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I beg leave to acquaint you that I have in consequence of my orders, examined the Cargo of the Bob & Joan Schooner, detained here last night by his Majesty's Ship under my command, and find that no part thereof appears perishable, except the Ten Barrells of Limes and Oranges. I am &ca
Date: 6 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2