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It is intended to send Lord Dartmouths Dispatches to Sir James Wright & Governor Tonyn by the Hawke which is now on her passage from the Nore to Spithead ー If you wish to send Duplicates of Your Dispatches to Lord Wm Campbell & Governor Martin (which are on board the Syren) they may go by the Hawke Sloop. ー
I shall send away tomorrow Your Dispatches for Boston & the Northern Colonies...
Date: 10 November 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Lieutenant Tonken, Agent for the Transports, now in Milford Haven, having by his Letter dated the 27th past, informed by Lords Commissrs of the Admty, that a few days before, arrived in Dale Road, within that Haven the Commerce Brigantine, Thomas Rice, Master, from North Carolina, who spoke, with His Majesty's Ship the Lizard, with a Brig in tow dismasted, in Latitude 46°00 N.Longitude 48°30m...
Date: 1 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
My Lords Commrs of His Majesty's Treasury having just received Information, by a Return from the Custom house, that the Ship Commerce arrived at Milford the 21st of Novr last, Capt Patrick Rice from Edenson [Edenton] in No Carolina, that the Captain on the 20th of Octr last spake with the Lizard Frigate having a Brigantine in Tow Lat. 46 Long. 48 & 30 West of London; And their Lordships...
Date: 1 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Inclosed I send you a List of Transports which arrived in the Downes on the 3d Instant, and remained there yesterday when the Post came away, and am Sr [&c.]
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
The honble Captain [Keith] Elphinstone having informed my Lords Commrs of the Admty that he has received a private Letter by His Majesty's Ship the Surprize, which is arrived at Portsmouth from Cadiz, advising that there were near Twenty American Vessels in that Port when the said Ship sailed from thence; I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you therewith for the information of Lord...
Date: 6 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
The several Transport Vessels mentioned in Mr Stephen's Letter of the 5th instant, also the Robert and Elizabeth another of the Transports under Orders to proceed to Corke, having sailed yesterday forenoon, from the Downes to the Westward; I am commanded by my Lords Commissrs of the Admty to acquaint you therewith for Lord Geo: Germaine's information. I am Sr [&c.]
Date: 7 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having received a Letter from Lieutenant Knowles, Agent for Transports going with Troops from Ireland to North America, dated the 10th instant on board the Myrtle Transport at Spithead, giving an account that the 32d and 36th Regiments of Foot were embarked on board the Transport Vessels named on the other side in order to proceed to Cork and were then...
Date: 12 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Lieut Tonken, Agent to the Transports, going to Corke, having by his Letter dated the 1 lh instant in Milford Haven, informed my Lords Commissrs of the Admty that the preceding Morning at day light he sailed from thence with the Transports under his direction with the Wind at East, but by the time he got 15 Leagues to the Westward, the Wind came round to the WSW, and as it began to blow strong,...
Date: 15 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Lieutenant Johnston, Commander of His Majesty's Cutter the Goodwill (who, in consequence of Lord George Germain's Letter of the llh Instant) was directed to proceed to the Downes in quest of an American Vessel called the Betsey, and upon meeting with her to search for, seize and transmit to his Lordships any Letters addressed to any persons in any Part of North America, having by his Letter of...
Date: 16 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
The Ordnance Transports were ordered to go to Cork except the Earl of Darby, which was to receive 5000 Stand of Arms at Portsmo taken out of the Russia Merchant (a Storeship bound to Boston) in pursuance of Lord Dartmouth's Letter, and according to the best of my Judgment the Thunder Bomb's Tender is gone thither. Lord George Germain may rely upon every thing depending on the Ordnance Department...
Date: 21 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
The Thunder Bomb Vessel has been arrived at Portsmo some days. I rather think Lord [Charles] Cornwallis means her Tender, in which are the Shells Powder &ca and which, I have a Letter from Sir Peter Parker saying she was not arrived.
Upon this Letter from Sir Peter enquiry was made at the Ordnance Board after her, and Mr. Boddington's answer was that she saild from this River the 15 inst with...
Date: 21 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Sir Hugh Palliser has desired me, upon the Paper of Memoranda which you inclosed to him for private Information, in your letter of the 7th of January, to desire you will please to inform me.
First, the Names of the three Victuallers which have been taken up by the Treasury, also their Masters, & where they lie.
2d The Size or Dimensions of the Sloops propased for the Navigation of Lake...
Date: 9 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
I wish to be informed as soon as possible of the Names of the Victuallers for Quebec, & where they are to be found, also of the other particulars mentioned in Mr. [George] Jackson's Note to you, in answer to Your's to me the 7th instant, for want of which we cannot be doing any thing relating to those matters. I am &c
Date: 10 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
I am commanded by My Lords Commrs of the Admiralty to desire you will be at the trouble to learn, and inform them, if any of the Transports, which will be first ready for Service, are intended for the reception of Horses, such Information being necessary with respect to the further Orders their Lordships may give for their Equipment. I am &c.
Date: 15 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
The Navy Board having informed My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that the Dorothy Transport, which is fitted to carry 100. Soldiers of the 29th Regiment from Sheerness to Plymouth, would have sailed the 14th if the great Quantitys of Ice iri the River had not prevented, and that the same Cause had made it impossible for anything to be done on board the Lord Howe and the Bute Transports,...
Date: 19 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
The Charming Sally, Hope, and Russian Merchant Ordnance Storeships which were intended to have gone to North America, under Convoy of the Actaeon, but were afterwards left to go under Convoy of any other Ship that might be ordered thither, being still at Spithead waiting for Convoy; I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you therewith for Lord George Germain's...
Date: 20 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
The Ordnance Storeships mentioned in Mr [George] Jackson's Letter are as follows ー
For Boston
The Russia Merchant
Has on board 500 Barrels of Gunpowder ー and great part of Captn [John] Montresor's Demand of the 19 August
The Hope
Has 1600 Carbines ー 1500 Barrls [of Gunpowder] and the remainder of Captn Montresor's Demand of the 19 August
The Charming Sally
Has on board ー Iron Ordnce...
Date: 21 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty intending that His Majesty's Ship the Greyhound, which is proposed to join the Squadron under the Command of Rear Admiral Shuldham, shall Sail without loss of time to Cork, and take such Ships as shall desire to proceed under her Convoy from thence to Boston; I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you therewith for Lord George Germain's Information,...
Date: 29 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3