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Sir, His Majesty's Ship under my Command2 ran on the Rocks at this Place Yesterday Morning at 5 O'Clock. She is now at an Anchor in a very narrow Place environ'd with Rocks and about half her Length from some of them, her Rudder is lost and she has received very considerable damage, if timely Assistance arrives, I hope She will be saved, She now makes as much Water as all the Pumps...
Date: 11 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
Sir, I have your favor by Mr [Ebenezer] Dickinson, Lieutenant [Alexander] Gr[a]eme is arrived in the Sloop; Lieutenant [Joseph] Nunn in the Halifax; Mr [William] Lechmere by Land; You may be assured I shall lose no time or Opportunity in doing everything in my power for the Preservation of the Ship, an able Carpenter with two or three of that Profession would be of great Service in constructing...
Date: 12 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
Sir, Yesterday I arrived in this port, with His Majesty's Ship under my Command, from New London, on a cruise, of which I had the honour to acquaint You, the 8th instant.
Since my absence from this Place, I find the Inhabitants (they say here of Providence) have seized upon the King's Cannon that was upon Fort Island, consisting of six twenty-four Pounders, eighteen eighteen Pounders, fourteen...
Date: 12 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
Sir It is with the utmost Concern I find Myself called upon by my Duty to the King to communicate to You a most unhappy Affair perpetrated here this Day.
Yesterday in the Afternoon One Paul Rivere2 arrived in this Town Express from a Committee in Boston to another Committee in this Town, and delivered his Dispatch to Mr. Saml. Cutts a Merchant of this Town who immediately convened a...
Date: 14 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
Sir I think every Intelligence however trifling, relating to the King's Service, proper for your Information, which is an Apology for the following, ー Last Night I was sitting at Mr. [George] Romes, with some Gentlemen of the Town of Newport, when a Man came into the House and said there was a Mob raising with an Intent to tarr and feather the Captain of the Man of War, and the Man of the House...
Date: 15 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
When I had the honor to converse with You on the subject of the Marines lately ordered from England, I understood You had settled it with me, that all the supernumerary Marines shou'd land under the Command of Major [John] Pitcairne; and on that account Quarters have been preparing for their reception. But Major Pitcairne informs me, that you are not fixed in the design of landing them,...
Date: 17 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
Sir I received the Honour of your Letter of the 17th instant by Captain [Andrew] Barkley, who arrived in this Harbour yesterday with the Scarborough, as did Lieut [Henry] Mowat with the Canceaux on saturday Night last [December 17].
Permit me to return my most hearty thanks to You, Sir, for your great Readiness in ordering such timely Assistance to support his Majesty's Service here, which I...
Date: 20 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
I got without the Lighthouse with his Majs Ship under my Command a Sunday [December 18] about Noon, the Wind at West North West, in the Afternoon the Wind veering to the Eastward and looking dirty, I put back and Anchor'd in Nantasket Road, at 3 the next Morning the Wind got round to So by East, I got under sail and at Eleven the same Morning Anchord here, where I found the Canceaux got in here...
Date: 20 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
As the Supernumerary Marines will be disembarked in a few Days, I take the Liberty to mention the Proprietary of putting them whilst on shore on the same Footing with the rest of the Soldiers both as to their Pay and Provisions. As they are all employed in the same Service, if some are treated differently from others, it may Occasion Grumbling and discontent, which must be very prejudicial to the...
Date: 21 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
Sir, Since I had the honor to write you of the [20th] instant, the weather has continued excessively severe, I have however conferred twice with Captain [Andrew] Barkley and Lieutt [Henry] Mowat of His Majesty's Ships Scarborough & Canceaux upon the best means of securing the King's service & Servants in this Town, from any sudden attack, which may be too reasonably apprehended from the...
Date: 30 December 1774
Volume: Volume 1
Sir Inclosed is A Copy of a Letter I received Yesterday: The Gentleman who writes it I understand is a Man of Character, and by his Intelligence You may further judge of the Disposition of the People in this Country2 ー however I hope in God, to make them pay dear for their frolick, should they attempt it.
I am Sir, [&c.]
Date: 9 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
To the Honourable Samuel Graves, Esq; Vice-Admiral of the Blue, and Commander in Chief of all his Majesty's Navy in North America, &c.
We, the inhabitants of Marshfield, in Town Meeting legally assembled, the 20th of February, A.D. 1775, penetrated with the highest sense of gratitude, present our sincere and hearty thanks to you Sir, for your ready compliance, with a request of a number of...
Date: 20 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Lieutenant Governor Cadwallader Colden of New York, to Vice Admiral Samuel Graves, February 20, 1775
Sir You will perceive from the Public Prints that the Assembly of this Province refuses to adopt the measures of the Congress, & takes the lead towards a recon ciliation between Great Britain & her Colonies, Tho this be a true sense of a great Majority of the people, & of men of the best Fortunes, Yet we have among Us a set of violent Spirits of the lowest Rank, and desperate...
Date: 20 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir The 15th. February at three O'Clock in the Morning I sailed from Cranberry Harbour, with His Majesty's Schooner the Halifax, intending to put into Machias to take a Pilot for Passamiquody, the Pilot we then had Onboard not being acquainted with the Coast further than Machias; At half past twelve the Pilot being deceived in the Land, run the Schooner upon a Ridge of Rocks off Sheep Island,...
Date: 1 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir/ A Vessel being turn'd out of the harbour with Kings Provisions May and certainly will put us to great difficultys to Obtain others for the like services. the last was procured from a Gentm in New York when no other could be got who by being Obliged to put to Sea was near being lost beside the Additional expence to the Crown to bring these provisions round.
I conceive Vessels loaded with no...
Date: 6 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We the subscribers, Magistrates of the County of Plymouth within the province of Massachusetts Bay ー Most humbly Shewー
That the tumults & disorders which are prevalent in said county, have justly alarmd the small number of Loyal & well affected persons, who reside in the Shiretown, & towns adjacent and (from a variety of threats & insults which have lately been offer'd them) they...
Date: 7 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir, I received this Morning your Letter of Yesterday desiring that a Detachment consisting of a Captain, One Serjeant, One Corporal, and Fifty private Marines may be ordered on Board his Majesty's Ship Asia, which you propose sending to New York. ー I will beg to observe to you that by the Earl of Dartmouth's Letter to me on the Subject of the Marines sent out to reinforce his Majesty's Troops...
Date: 23 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir, When I had the Pleasure of seeing you Yesterday I mentioned the Disturbance at Falmouth on Account of a Sloop from Bristol with rigging for a Ship built there by Captain Thomas Courson [Coulson], and read you a Letter from the Sheriff, who wished that a Ship of War was sent there. As you have so many stations to guard I am no Judge how far you will be able to comply with his Request, but...
Date: 30 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I have had the pleasure to receive your Letter of this Day, respecting your having Occasion for Two Transports to take in the Somersets Guns and Stores, which I shall order immediately to Attend and to give you every Assistance possible.
I have the honor Sir, &ca
Date: 31 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Having received Information of some Disturbance about Freetown Swansey and Dighton, I am to beg the Favor of you to write a Line to Captain [James] Wallace2 to give them such Assistance as he is able; If the Captain can send up any vessel to make Enquiry into Matters, and inform the People he has sent it by my Application, and to acquaint me of the best Places to procure Quarters for...
Date: 31 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1