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It may perhaps be asked in England ー what [is] the Admiral [Samuel Graves] doing? I wish I was able to answer that question satisfactorily. But I can only say what he is not doing.
That He is not supplying the troops with sheep & oxen the dinners of the best of us bear [me]ager testimony ー the want of broth in the Hospitals bears a more melancholy one.
He is not defending his own flocks...
Date: 20 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Lord! After this Town had been closely invested by the Rebels for five Months, and had defeated all their attempts, the Surprise Frigate, Isis, and Sloop Martin came into the Bason the 6th Instant. ー
As soon as that part of the 29th they had on board, with their Marines, in all about two hundred, were landed, they, with the greatest part of the Garrison, by this time much improved, and in high...
Date: 14 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I arrived here on the 3d of this month, & had the pleasure of finding that many of the Transports had got here before us. Your Lordship will hear from Genl. Clinton the present state of this Colony, & his intention of going from hence as soon as the Transports are watered, from what I have heard since I came here I must still more lament the fatal delays that prevented the armament from...
Date: 16 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I have given such orders for the embarkation of the Fiftieth Regiment, agreeable to his Majesty's pleasure signified to me by your Lordship, that no time will be lost in getting them brought in from the different Quarters, and then sending them to the Army in North America and I shall be ready to obey His Majesty's Commands in the Case of an Attack by the Rebels on West Florida as far as the...
Date: 6 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
the Nautilus Sloop of War Capt [John] Collins Commander, arrived at Bermuda the 9th of this month, which will be a great Support, and Countenance; to the few friends of Government here, and I hope will prevent, a Visit from any of the American privateers, or armed vessels, which it is said hath already been at the Bahama Islands and Carried off the Governor, and the Stores &c. I hope the...
Date: 14 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
My Lord I have the Honor to inclose to your Lordship, Copies of several Letters and Affidavits which I have received within these few days, from the Superintendant the Council and Magistrates upon the Mosquito Shore, and from Mr. [Alexander] Blair part owner with Doctor [Charles] Irving of the Sloop Morning Star, and her Cargo.2
The Satisfaction the first of these Letters gave me,...
Date: 14 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
My being suddenly landed at a moment's warning and under an unavoidable necessity of leaving all my Baggage & Papers on board the Transport, prevents for this time my having it in my power to send Your Lordship my Journal, which otherwise I most undoubtedly should have done; but herewith do my self the honor to transmit to Your Lordship an Account of what has come within my knowledge from the...
Date: 23 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Since writing your Lordship of the 2d of April nothing very material has happened, except our Change of Harbour, which I found absolutely Necessary, as we were constantly exposed to the fire of the Musketry of the Enemy (Elizabeth River not being above Musquet shott over) and in daily expectation of their bringing heavier Mettal down against us, and that we lay in a Tides way, and exposed to be...
Date: 26 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Since I had the honor of writing to Your Lordship by The Duke of Cumberland Packet nothing of great moment, or out of the common course of things has occurred, with regard to the Province of No Carolina, except the withdrawing of the Fleet and Army from thence on the 31st day of May; a measure which was taken on the manifold considerations, that the Army was not then all arrived, that the season...
Date: 5 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
The Mercury Packet is dispatched to inform your Lordship of the Arrival of the Halifax Fleet on the 29th June at Sandy Hook, where I arrivedfour Days sooner in the Grey Hound Frigate. I met with Governor Tryon on board of ship at the Hook...from whom I have had the fullest Information of the State of the Rebels...
...We passed the Narrows with three Ships of War and the first Division of...
Date: 7 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
...Your Lordship will long since have been informed that General Howe and Admiral Shuldham left us on the 11th of June past, on the 23d following Lord Howe in the Eagle called off the harbour but tarried only a few hours and then steered to the southward; yesterday Commodore [William] Hotham called also off [this] place in quest of the fleet and army, with many of his, Convoy dispersed, who had...
Date: 8 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
A few days after I had dispatched my letter to your Lordship of the 3d of May, informing You of the arrival of the Fleet in Cape Fear river, (a duplicate of which is herewith annexed) The Nautilus Sloop of war arrived from the Northward, and brought me a letter from Major General Howe dated at Hallifax, from whom I had not heard for four months before, his dispatches by the Glasgow man of war...
Date: 8 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
His Majestys Schooner St John had injudiciously made an Hospital on the Georgia side of St Mary's River nigh to a Stockade erected three Years ago by Mr Wright when an Indian War was expected. To which place Mr Germain and Charles Wright have retired from their Estate in this Province, and Armed their Negroes; it is opposite to the post occupied by His Majestys Troops, who had also inadvertently...
Date: 18 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Since Writing your Lordship of the 26th of June at Gwins Island, we have again been obliged to Shift our quarters, the Enemy brought down Ten pieces of Ordnance, and on the 9th Instant began to play on my Ship from two Batteries; She was laid very near the Shore in order to prevent the Rebels from Landing on the Island, We were so near one of their Batteries (which consisted of an Eighteen and a...
Date: 31 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Seeing a Tender of Captn Hamonds (that he had sent to Sir Peter Parker) coming up I would not close my letter till I saw Mr [Richard] Whitworth, who commands her, and I am extremley sorry to find that No 4 contains but too true an Account of our loss before Charles Town. I have letters from Sir Peter [Parker] and General Clinton, both informing me that it is perfectly out of their Power to give...
Date: 4 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Ihave the honour to acquaint Your Lordship that Iarrived on the 1st instant with General Clinton and his Division of the Army at this place, where I find all manner of preparation going forward for the great scene that is likely to be opened on this theatre; and which I most fervently hope will soon close with all honour and glory to the Vigour and spirit, and to the Wisdom and magnanimity of...
Date: 7 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Conceiving it of the utmost Importance, in pursuit of the Objects of the special Commission with which I had the honor to be charged by His Majesty, that the Colonies in Rebellion should have the earliest Information of His Majesty's most gracious Intentions, with respect to the Restoration of Peace, and the granting of Pardons to such of His Majesty's Subjects as, by a speedy Return to their...
Date: 11 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The unlucky turn the naval operations took at Charlestown makes a very considerable change in the situation of affairs in this Province.
It was thought expedient for the benefit of this Province to summon the Inhabitants to meet me at the Statehouse yesterday morning.
After mentioning a few outlines of the present situation of public Affairs, and recommending a manly spirit to be exerted in...
Date: 21 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
My Lord I have on every occasion represented to the Generals and Admirals, the Situation of the Province, repecting military and maritime Affairs.
I requested, My Lord, a naval assistance from every Admiral.
As yet we have not had any permanent.
Captain [Thomas] Bishop of the Lively Frigate, did not go into Saint Maries, as I desired.
I am informed by people from Amelia if he had entered the...
Date: 26 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Having received a Letter from Vice Adml Gayton Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships & Vessels at Jamaica, dated the 30th of March last, enclosing one he received Express from the Chief Justice of His Majesty's Island of [New] Providence, giving an account of the proceedings of Esek Hopkins Commander in Chief of an Armament fitted out by the Rebel Americans, for the purpose of possessing...
Date: 7 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6