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The Owners of the following Store Ships that are to proceed with the Cloathing to No America, have undertaken to provide them with the Guns & Swivels expressed against their Names, with ten rounds of Powder to each Vizt ー
Mellish for Quebec ー Six 3 pounders ー 6 Swivels
Catherine
Richmond
for Genl Howe's Army ー 6 ..3 pounders ー 6 Do
New Castle
Jane
Halifax ー Four ..3 Pounders .....
Date: 9 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your Billet, with the Papers which accompanied it, from Mr [Hans] Stanley, Secretary to the Commrs of the Customs, in relation to the Snow Peter,2 bound from Santa Cruz in the West Indies to Amsterdam, which is detained at Cowes, on Suspicion of belonging to His Majesty's rebellious Subjects in North America, Their Lordships...
Date: 22 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I read your letter with some anxiety till I came to the last line of it, which told me that the young man you wish to introduce into the Marines was 19 years of age: had he been under 15 or more than 21, I could not have gratified my inclination to oblige you; but as he is of the proper age you may be assured that I shall have particular pleasure in recommending him to his Majesty for a...
Date: 21 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
My Lords Commissrs of the Admiralty having directed the Navy Board to apply the Transports named on the otherside hereof, to the Services against their Names expressed; I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you therewith, for the Information of Lord Geo Germain, in answer to your Letter of the 26th past; And am [&c.]
Date: 6 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
We are favoured with your Letter of the 27th Instant, and we have now to request that you will be pleased to communicate to The Right Honble Lord George Germain the sincere thanks of Ourselves & the Other Merchants concern'd in the West Florida Trade for the information which by His Lordships Order you have given us of Admiral Gayton having appointed a Convoy for Our homeward bound Ships from...
Date: 29 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
. . . If You can bear with the Tediousness of the Disquisition, I will, if You please, take a short View of the present State of all the Colonies from New York downwards, giving my Opinion, as We go along, what Effect any military Operations are likely to have in Them.
New-York, the City, I mean, is peculiarly fitted both by its Situation, & the Sentiments of the People, to be made a Place of...
Date: 27 November 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Many thanks to you for your letter, bad as the News was it conveyed; The taking of the Ordnance Brig is a most unfortunate & mortifying accident My accounts say she was seen by the Cerberus Man of War about the 16th of November, & that the Man of war, After having put some men onboard her parted with her in a hard Gale; 2 If the Town of Boston & the Cantonments of the army...
Date: 2 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Having laid before my Lords Commrs of the Admiralty your letter of the 27th ultimo, acquainting them, by Lord George Germain's Directions, with the Information his Lordship had received respecting a Brigantine fitting out at Amsterdam, to be laden with Arms & Ammunition for the Rebels in North America; I am commanded to acquaint you, for his Lord ships' Information, that if it is His Majesty...
Date: 3 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you for Lord George Germain's information that since my Letter to You of the 12th instant respecting the India Ship lately purchased to serve as a Storeship, their Lordships have learnt from the Navy Board that it was their intention to send in her Twenty thousand Beds, which Lord Howe has represented to them to be much wanted...
Date: 14 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Having laid before my Lords Commissrs. of the Admiralty your Letter of the 2d. instant, enclosing Extracts of two Letters from Wm Mathew Burt Esqr. Govr. of the Leeward Islands dated the 17th of Sept last, giving an accot. of the Steps he had taken (& the success with which they had been attended) for...
Date: 9 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11