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Joseph Harris, the bearer of this letter, has applied to me for protection, as the people of Hampton, and some other places, have threatened his destruction, as they have found him to have given intelligence concerning a smuggling schooner which was seized in Cherrystone creek. ー As the Fowey will soon leave the province, I think him too useful to his majesty's service to take away, he being well...
Date: 20 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
By Andrew Snape Hamond Esqr &ca
You are hereby required and directed to proceed to Sea, without loss of time with his Majesty's Sloop under your command and cruize off of the Capes of Virginia, and from thence to Hampton Road, taking care to place your ship in the Best situation for speaking with all Vessels bound in or going out.
And whereas his Excellency the Earl of Dunmore has acquainted...
Date: 28 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
By Andrew Snape Hamond Esqr &ca. &ca
You are hereby required and directed to proceed to Sea as soon as possible with his Majesty's Sloop under your command, and put into execution such part of those Orders you received from me on the 28th of last Month, as are not already executed, and to lose no opportunity of annoying the enemy by every means in your power ー
Given under my hand on board...
Date: 2 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
In consequence of Orders from Vice Admiral Shuldham: You are hereby required and directed to cause a proportion of Rice to be issued to the company of His Majestys Ship under your command, on Mondays in lieu of Oatmeal for that Day.
You are likewise required and directed to cause the company of His Majestys Ship under your command to be put at whole allowance of all Species of Provisions, and...
Date: 24 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
You are hereby required and directed to proceed forthwith, without loss of time in [his] Majesty's Sloop under your command, taking the Fincastle, your Tender, with you, and Cruize off the Capes of Virginia, taking care to place your Sloop and Tender in the Best Situation you can possibly for annoying the Enemy, in or Going out thereof until further Orders
Given under my hand on bd His Majesty's...
Date: 30 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
By Andrew Snape Hamond Esqr
The great number of familys inhabiting Vessels, ill provided with all Sorts of materials, that have ever since the destroying of the Town of Norfolk put themselves under the protection of His Majesty's Ships, have been found to be so great an inconvenience to his Majesty's Service that it is become absolutely necessary that they should be sent to a place of Security....
Date: 31 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
at 9 A M took up the Sheet Anchor & stowd him and hove in on the small Bower and new moored the Ship. During the Gale much damage was done, many Vessels being on shore, others dismasted and some entirely lost. We lost in the Gale Six Hogsheads & two Puncheons compleatly hooped, washed off the watering Wharf.
at 2 P M unmoored, at 4 Weighed & run down close to...
Date: 3 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Septemr 1775
Thursday 7
Elizabeth River [Virginia]
at 3 P M took in the end of the Mercurys stream Cable in order to assist her to heave off. At 4 began to heave at 5 She came off on which we gave her three cheers which She answerd. She moored in the Stream below us.
Date: 7 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Septemr 1775
Friday 15
In Hampton Road
A M . . . seized on two Pilot boats belonging to Hampton as a reparation for the Tender they destroy'd.
[P. M.] Sailed hence his Majesty's Ship Mercury
Date: 15 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Yours of the 10th instant, directed to the committee of the town of Hampton, reciting, "that a sloop tender on his majesty's service was on the 2d instant cast on shore near this place, having on board some of the king's stores, which you say were seized by the inhabitants, and demanding an immediate return of the same, or. that the people of Hampton must answer the consequences of such outrage...
Date: 16 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Septemr 1775
Wednesday 27
Off Cape Henry
A M fired two Musquets & brought too a Sloop from Norfolk for York River with Rum, Sugar & Chocolate which we seized At 4 P M weighed & came to sail. at 7 [A]nchored in 4 fathom water off Portsmouth and steadied with the small Bower under foot
Date: 27 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I have received your Letters Sepr 11 and 12 giving me an_ Account of your Proceedings in his Majs Sloop Otter up to that time, which I very well approve of
As I shall in a short time direct Rear Admiral Shuldham to take you under his Command, and give you Orders for your farther Proceedings, this serves only to acquaint you that all the Colonies from New Hampshire to South Carolina included are...
Date: 29 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Captain Squires Compliments to Lord Dunmore, would be much obliged to him for the reading of two Letters he sent him the other night, one directed to Robert Carter Nicholas, the other to Richard Henry Lee, which I will return to your Lordship again
Otter Sloop, Saturday Noon [December 9, 1775]. 2
[Dunmore's Reply]
Ld Dunmore Compts to Capt Squire, is sorry he can't send him the Letters...
Date: 9 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
By Andrew Snape Hamond Esqr Captain of his Majesty's Ship the Roebuck and commanding officer in Virginia.
In consequence of the application you have made to me by letter of this days date, setting forth that Tobias Verdin Boatswain of his Majs Sloop under your command, who you had some time since suspended for neglect of duty, has lately shewn great courage and alacrity on several occasions in...
Date: 16 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Having received directions from Captain Onslow,1 to proceed with His Majesty's Ships, Solebay, Otter and Senegal, between the Tail of the Horse Shoe Shoal, and the Middle Ground; You are to proceed there in Company with His Majesty's Ship under My Command, and to be placed at equal distances, to effectually stop the passage into the Chesepeak Bay, in order to prevent French Ships,...
Date: 7 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11