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Having communicated to my Lords Commrs of the Admty your Letter of Yesterday's date, desiring to know for the Information of the Lords of the Treasury the Names of such Ships as are to Sail soon to join the Fleet with General Howe; I am to acquaint you that His Majts Ships named on the otherside hereof are intended to Convoy the Troops against their Names expressed from Spithead to the places of...
Date: 15 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Vice Adml Sr Jas Douglas Commanding Officer of His Majesty's Ships at Portsmouth having represented to my Lords Commrs of the Admty that all Ships bound to West Florida must go by the way of Jamaica as they cannot get through the Gulph of Florida and without a Pilot cannot go through the Old Streights of Bahama and therefore proposed, that the Ship Meredith laden with Provisions for His Majts...
Date: 26 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
When I had the honor of attending the Board on the 23d Ulto I understood, thal:! it seemed to be the wish of their Lordships, that I should appeal to the Court of Admiralty in America for the value of our Ship & Cargo, which Lord Dunmore originally detained for the use of the Army & Navy under his Command in Virginia, and as his Lordship has acknowledged that the Flour had been made use...
Date: 4 February 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Having laid before My Lords Commrs of the Admty your Letter of the_ 18th Inst transmitting a Copy of One the Lords of the Treasury have received from the Commrs of the Customs relative to two Vessels that had been hovering in Exeter Bay supposed to have come from France or Holland with Ammunition for America; I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you that directions were given to the...
Date: 21 November 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Having communicated to my Lords Commrs of the Admty your Letter of the 29th past enclosing by the direction of their Lordships of the Treasury Copy of a Petition that had been presented to them by Messrs Rotch & Smith relative to the seizure of Five Vessels of their property by the Commanders of His Majs Ships the Renown & Experiment; And signifying their Lordships desire to be acquainted...
Date: 1 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3