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On Monday last [March 6] his Majesty's sloop Tamer, commanded by Capt. [Edward] Thornborough, fell down into Rebel[lion] Road, where she remains.
Date: 13 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Last Tuesday [March 14] Mr. Robert Smyth, Merchant, Master Smyth, his son, and Master Ward son of John Ward, Esq, returned here from London, in the snow Proteus, Capt. Papley, having touched at Falmouth and St. Christopher's by the Way.
The said Vessel having on board (besides 7 Cases of Merchandise, said to be Globes and mathematical Instruments consigned to Mr. Robert Wells, 1 hogshead, 1...
Date: 20 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On Monday last [May 29] the lady and family of his Excellency the Governor [Josiah Martin] embarked on board a vessel here for New-York; and the same day his Excellency set out by land for Cape Fear.
Date: 2 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On Saturday Evening last [June 17], his Excellency the Right Hon. Lord William Campbell, Governor in Chief, &c. of this Province, with his Lady and Family, arrived here in the Scorpion Man of War from England: His Lordship was saluted on his Arrival by the Tamar Man of War, by Fort Johnson, and the several Forts in Town; and about One o'Clock the next Day, his Lordship landed at Champneys's...
Date: 20 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
One of the gallies belonging to the state of Georgia, has . . . taken a schooner in St. Mary's river, laden with rice in bulk, destined for St. Augustine.
The Rutledge privateer of this Port, commanded by Capt. Jacob Muligan, has lately carried into a safe Port, a Brigantine of 10 Guns, from the Coast of Guiney, with 42 Slaves, a large Quantity of Elephants Teeth, &c. which he took almost...
Date: 9 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Admiral Sir William [sic James] Young's Squadron at Antigua has lately been reinforced, by the Hind and Favorite Men of War; and Admiral Gayton's, at Jamaica, by the Fly, Hornet, and Beaver. The Cruizers on both Stations are so exceedingly vigilant, that it is difficult for any thing to escape them. Besides, these, a Number of piratical Vessels, fitted out at Dominica, Tortola, Antigua, and St....
Date: 14 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
We have just now learnt, that the Fleet to sail from Jamaica, on or about the first of May, will consist of 176 Sail, very richly laden, having on board, besides their usual Cargoes of Sugar, Rum, Cotton, Coffee, &c., a large Quantity of Carolina Indigo; purchased in the French Islands: That they were to be convoyed, as far as Bermuda, by the Maidstone and Winchelsea Frigates of 26 Guns each...
Date: 28 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I have received a message, signed by you, from a set of people who style. themselves a General Committee. The presumption of such an address, from a body assembled by no legal authority, and whom I must consider as in actual and open rebellion against their Sovereign, can only be equalled by the outrages, which obliged me to take refuge on board the King's ships in the harbour.
It deserves no...
Date: 30 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
This Afternoon one of your Officers brought up a paper from on board the Tamar, addressed to Henry Laurens,. Esq; ー It appeared to have been intended as an Answer to a Message from the General Committee to his Excellency the Governor ー it had no Signature* but the Officer declared he brought it from Lord William Campbell.
We find that, upon your Officer's return to his Boat, he was much insulted...
Date: 30 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2