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I received the honour of your orders & instructions of the —— [12th of April] by Capt. [Cornthwaite] Ommaney the [20th] of May, to the senior officer here. I acquainted you by letter of [17th May] by his Majs Schonr the Gaspee, of my arrival at Quebec, & inclosed my orders from the Lords of the Admiralty; & informed you of my instructions till I should have the honour of receiving...
Date: 1 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I beg leave to acquaint your Lordship, that on the 7th Instant at day break, Cape Sable bearing N N E about fourteen Leagues, we discovered three Sail of Ships, and a Sloop on our weather Quarter, and a Ship on our Lee Quarter, standing to the Westward on the same Tack as the Flora was, I thought it my duty to see what they were, tacked, and stood towards them, upon which the Sloop that was towed...
Date: 9 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
As the Senegal's Water is nearly expended, I am obliged to send Her to New York.
I joined the Phoenix at Her Rendezvous the 5th of last month, and we proceeded immediately into this Bay, and put back Nineteen Sail out of twenty three that were without Cape Henry.
The Raleigh arrived the 14th at Night, the Phoenix Sailed the next Day.
The Thames is Stationed off York Spit at present, & the 1st...
Date: 10 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I have the Satisfaction to acquaint your Lordship, that His Majesty's Ship the Rainbow is just now come in, and brought the Hancock with her, an account of which matter I have the honor to transmit to your Lordship from Sir George Collier — And as I think it is of importance that your Lordship should have the earliest Intelligence of this matter, I have given Captain Furneaux of the Syren, Orders...
Date: 12 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
The Purser of his Majesty's Ship Isis under my Command having reprsented to me by Letter of this Days date, that there is a Quantity of Pork on board the said Ship rotten, Stinking & not fit for men to eat, & desireing a Survey on the same, I am to request that you will be pleased to Order a Survey accordingly — I have The Honour to be [&c.]
Date: 18 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I was Honoured with Your Lordships Letters by the Otter Yesterday, and sent Her of Smiths Island, and directed Captain Howe to join Me, and by his representation of the State his Ship is in,2 I am under the disagreeable necessity of sending Her away. His own Ill state of health, his second Lieut being absent, twenty Men at the Hospital, Forty Nine Sick on board, Seventeen short of...
Date: 25 January 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I am sorry to acquaint your Lordship that on the 7th of June last, I was taken in His Majesty's Ship Fox (which I then commanded) by two American Ships, sixty Leagues South-East from Cape Race Newfoundland; the particulars of which I herewith enclose You.
I was retaken in the Hancock by His Majesty's Ship Rainbow, as was the Fox by the Flora. The Boston escaped, and should she unfortunately get...
Date: 31 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9