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It being apprehended that the Number of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels at present in North America may not be sufficient for effectually securing a due Obedience of the Laws passed in the last Session of Parliament for restraining the Commerce and Fisheries of several of the Colonies, and that it may be particularly useful to have a more considerable Naval Strength at New York to protect the...
Date: 17 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Lords The King having received Advices that not only the 4 New England Governments are in open and actual Rebellion, & that the People have been daring enough, amongst other Acts of Hostility to make Seizures of several Vessels, and to send the Crews to Prison, but also that the Flame has extended itself to most of the other Colonies, in which the greatest Violences have been committed,...
Date: 1 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I am commanded by the King to signify to your Lordships His Majesty's Pleasure, that a Vessel of about 200 Tons Burthen be taken up by the Navy Board, to carry Arms and other Military Stores to Quebec, and also that one of His Majesty's small Ships, such as your Lordships think proper be forthwith prepared to carry dispatches to General [Thomas] Gage at Boston.ー
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Date: 19 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I am Commanded by the King to signify to your Lordships His Majesty's Pleasure that in addition to the Ships of War already ordered for North America, your Lordships do send such further reinforcement to the fleet under the command of Admiral [Samuel] Graves, as the state of His Majesty's Naval Service will, in your Lordships' judgement, admit of; and that your Lordships do also prepare forthwith...
Date: 21 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Having received Advices not only that a great part of His Majesty's Subjects in the Southern Colonies have traiterously assembled in Arms against the King's Government, but that they have menaced Destruction to His Majesty's Servants there, who have no place of safety to resort to; and also that Boats full of armed men have been fitted out from the Province of South Carolina, which cruize and...
Date: 28 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
At thirty days sight of this My Second of Exchange and third of thisTenor and date not paid, please to pay Edward H[illegible] or order, SevenHundred pounds, for Value received on a Sloop (called the Pinquin) bought for the use of His Majesty, and pla[ce] the Same to Account accordingly as pr Advice from Gentlemen [&c.]
Date: 20 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I beg leave to acquaint you, that the Harcourt Transport Under my direction, having had a contagious fever onboard, during her passage from Cork and Burying Several of the Troops, arrived at Cape Fear, very Sickly; ー The Physician to the Army recommending it to Major General Clinton as absolutely necessary, that most part of the Bedding onboard her should be Burnt, in order to prevent the...
Date: 7 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I am directed to signify to Your Lordships The King's Commands that Henry Johnson, El. Downour, David Hall, and John Cochran, who acted as Officers aboard the Rebel Privateer call'd the Yankee of Boston, be properly secured for the present aboard such Vessel belonging to His Majesty as your Lordships may find most convenient. But with regard to the Crew, consisting of 17. Men & 2 Negro Slaves...
Date: 16 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Having had the honor to lay before The King the Copy of Vice Admiral Lord Shuldham's Letter to your Lordships of the 16th of April, transmitted to me in your Letter of the 7th of June, in which he acquaints your Lordships that upon quitting the Harbour of Boston with the Fleet, he had stationed a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships in Nantasket Road, under the command of Captain [Francis] Banks of...
Date: 16 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
My Lords, I send Your Lordships inclosed Copy of a Memorial, I have received from Count Welderen Envoy Extraordy & Pleny from the States severely as also Copies of three Papers ref erred to therein. This Memorial represents, that the Vessel ,called the Twee Gebroeders, Henry Torhorst Master, bound from Rotterdam to St Eustatia, & laden with Cannon, Gun powder, Chests of Arms, Provisions...
Date: 7 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I am commanded to signify to Your Lordships His Majesty's Pleasure, that You give immediate Directions for Transport Vessels to be provided of sufficient Tonnage to receive on Board about 2700 Infantry, and to convey the same to such Parts of North America as shall hereafter be specified — Allowance of Tonnage for the Men Women Servants and Camp Equipage must be made in the same Proportion...
Date: 15 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Having submitted to The King Your Lordships Letter of the 1st, and Mr Stephens's of the 7th Inst, respecting the Nine American Prisoners brought into the Harbour of Portsmouth, by Capt [Stair] Douglas of the Squirrel, I am to signify to Your Lordships His Majesty's Commands, that these People be detained in safe Custody, as was directed in my Letter of the 2d Deer, with regard to the Men brought...
Date: 7 January 1777
Volume: Volume 8
The King's Assent having been this Day given to "an Act of Parliament to empower His Majesty to secure and detain Persons charged with or suspected of the Crime of High Treason committed in any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in America, or on the High Seas, or the Crime of Piracy" and there being a Clause which makes it "lawfull for His Majesty by Warrant under His Sign Manual to...
Date: 3 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
The Attorney & Sollicitor General having pursuant to His Majesty's Commands transmitted to me Draughts of Two Warrants, the one for confining certain Prisoners at Plymouth, the other at Portsmouth, I transmit Copies thereof to Your Lordships, & am to remark to You, that the Description of the Places specified in the Draughts being taken from Your Letter to me of the 6th Instt, the...
Date: 12 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I have laid before The King Your Lordships Letter & Inclosures relative to the Seizure of a Dutch Dagger called the Eendraght with a Cargo of 1500 Barrels of Gunpowder. The Quantity being so large and some Suspicion being suggested by the Master of the Wells Cutter that the whole was destined for His Majesty's Rebellious Colonies, it may be adviseable to direct the Vessel to be detained for a...
Date: 26 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Orders having been given to provide the Cloathing for His Majesty's Troops serving under General Sir William Howe & to be in readiness for shipping by the 20th of July next, for the Freight of which 750 Tons will be necessary, I am commanded by the King to signify to Your Lordships, His Majesty's Pleasure, that you do direct the Navy Board to engage Transports for its Conveyance, capable of...
Date: 10 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
In addition to the Vessels engaged and prepared to sail for the last Division of Hessian Chasseurs as soon as We learn that they are in readiness to embark at Boemerleh, I am to instruct your Lordships to give Orders for the Conveyance of 200 Tons of Hessian Stores which are left in Depot at that Place. The Hatchway of the Vessel destined to this Service should be large, as the Casks, in which...
Date: 11 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
His Majesty having been pleased by Warrant under His Sign Manual to appoint places of Confinement at Portsmouth & at Plymouth pursuant to the late Act of Parliament "to empower His Majesty to secure & detain Persons charged with or suspected of the Crime of High Treason committed in any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in America, or on the High Seas, or the Crime of Piracy" I am...
Date: 23 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
There being great reason to suspect that His Majesty's Rebellious Subjects in America, are supplied with Gunpowder, Arms and Ammunition from the Coast of Africa, to which large quantities of those Articles are sent from Europe in the way of Trade; It is the King's pleasure that one of His Majesty's Ships of War, such as your Lordships shall think fit, be Dispatched as soon as may be, to the Coast...
Date: 29 August 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Lord Dartmouth to the Lords Commissioners of the British Admiralty, September 12, 1775, First Letter
It having been represented that The King's Subjects in North America in Rebellion against His Majesty's Government have found means of preventing His Majesty's Fleet & army from being supplied with such provisions and Stores as are necessary for their Subsistence and may be procured in several of the Colonies; I am commanded by The King to signify to your Lordships His Majesty's Pleasure that...
Date: 12 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2