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My Lord ー I have not presumed to write your Lordship upon the present Commotions in America, as I have had no particular informations, but what might be Collected from the public Prints, and his Majesty's Officers, & Governors in America have without Doubt given your Lordship a full & Adequate State of the matters within their respective Commands.
But as the resolutions of the Congress t...
Date: 6 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
It gives me great pleasure that his Majesty, approves of the measures I took to preserve the peace of this Colony from those Popular & Tumultuous Disorders, which have arisen even to open Acts of Rebellion in some of the other Colonies in America, the examples then made had its proper effect, & there has not since been the least Tendency of that sort, a Ship Driven from New York2...
Date: 24 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir, I have informed your Excellency of the fitting out a Vessel from Machias to cruise for the Vessels employed in carrying Cattle, Hay & other supplies for his Majesty's Fleets and Army by Depositions taken before his Majesty's Council, it appears they have Designs upon this Province, that the Provincial Congress have empowered Persons residing there to act against his Majesty, That they...
Date: 26 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Lord, In my letter No 41 of the 27 June last, I acquainted your Lordship, That the people at Mechias, a place about twenty Miles West of this Province, had taken Arms and Attack'd, and Seizd one of the Armd Schooners, inclosed you have a deposition of a person, who was present, and gives an Account of their fitting out a Sloop to cruise for the Vessels bound from this Province, with a supply...
Date: 31 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir, Your favour of the 26th July last I have received and am greatly obliged to your Excellency for the care you have taken to protect the Trade of this Province.
The Report of this Pirate cruising in the Bay of Fundy has retarded the Provision Vessels there for sometime, but I shall immediately give Notice at those Ports of the precautions you have taken for their Protection and safety, and I...
Date: 3 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir I acquainted you in my last that there was one Barton a Ship Carpenter who had been employed on Lake Ontario, had promised to give to me proposals for the raising such a Number of Carpenters & Mariners as you proposed in your Letter to me; I now inclose you his proposals to me for that purpose, which I think Reasonable; & under the Terms he has proposed, I think they cannot be engaged...
Date: 7 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
This Letter will be delivered to you by the Halifax Packet, who Carries Provisions with her for the Use of the Navy and Army as Specified in her pass and in the Margin of it.
I am afraid these supplies will very soon fail, as there are frequent Exportations from all parts of the Country, and there has been for sometime a Scarcity however what Supplies can be afforded shall be duely sent to Boston...
Date: 8 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Having received information last Night by letter from Windsor from the Lieut. Governor and from Mr. Deschamps, One of the Assistant Judges of the Supreme Court, that from intelligence they just then received the People of Machias were Meditating a design of equipping two Armed Vessells, the King Schooner Diligence lately taken being one of them, in order to proceed to the Bay of Fundy and thence...
Date: 15 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Enclosed are the Copies of letters from Lieutenant Governor [Michael] Francklin and Mr. [Isaac] Deschamps One of the Justices of the Supreme Court giving information of intelligence they have received respecting what is Meditatin by the People of Machias against this Province. ー And in Consequence thereof I did with the Advice of His Majesty's Council Apply to Captain [Edward] Meadows Commanding...
Date: 15 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Yesterday I have the honor of acquainting you of the requisition I made, that His Majesty's Ship Senegal might proceed to the Bay of Fundy, but on the representation of Captain [Edward] Medows & the information of Captain [William] Duddingston, of the numbers of the people on the Eastern Coasts of New England, and of four Sloops which they had equipped, and the Number of Men they had ready...
Date: 16 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir Since my last Letter to your Excellency I have entered into an Agreement with Mr. Barton for procuring the number of Ship Carpenters & Seamen you proposed to be raised here, and I was informed by him Yesterday that he had procured Thirty Six in the whole about one half Carpenters and the other Seamen, that he could have compleated the whole number before now; but chooses to have such men...
Date: 16 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir I have by this Conveyance sent you the result of his Majesty's Council upon the present Circumstances of the Colony upon a Supposed intended Invasion; the Americans may project an Invasion for several purposes, to deprive the Armies from any supplies from hence, to possess themselves of the Militiary Stores here, among which are near 300 pieces of Cannon, Serviceable & unserviceable, but...
Date: 18 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Lord As the affairs in America are become more & more interesting, I thought it my indispensable Duty to inform your Lordship of the Critical Situation this Colony is in at present the Troops in Boston are confined to very narrow limits being now surrounded by the Rebels with an Army Consisting by the last Accounts of 19,750 men, Intrenched & Cannot be attacked without Sustaining such...
Date: 19 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I have the honor of transmitting the Copy of a letter relating an Account of Hostilities and depredations committed on St Johns River in this Province, the truth of which was confirm'd before me in Council, by the Evidence of one of the Owners of a Brigantine which was taken, and one of the Navigators, who were both on Board at that time, there is also the Copy of a letter, wrote by certain...
Date: 4 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
That by Colonel [Joseph] Gorham lately arrived here from Boston I am inform'd that Fifteen hundred of the Rebels had marched Eastward under the Command of General [John] Thomas so called, that it was given out by the Rebels, that they intended a Descent on this Province as well as Canada, that their design was to destroy the Navy Yard here, & Cut off all supply of Wood, Hay, & Provision...
Date: 17 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
My Lord In my last letter Copy of which is now inclos'd,2 I inform'd your Lordship of the intention of the Rebels to Attack Canada, and this Province, We have by the last advices from Boston been inform'd that the Rebels who enter'd Canada by the Lake Champlaine in attempting the Fort at St Johns on the River Sorrell have been repuls'd with great loss.
The great care of...
Date: 4 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
My Lord I have the honor to receive your Lordships letter of the 2d Augt last N 18; with his Majesty's Approbation of my Conduct in Causing the Oaths to be Administered to all Persons coming from the. Continent, and taking the benefit of the Trade and Fishery: as I have information from the General & Admiral of several Suspicious designing men coming into this Province to Alienate the Minds...
Date: 27 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
My Lord Since my last letters, by this same conveyance, We have advice by the way of Boston, that Montreal is in the hands of the Rebels, that they were assisted by the Canadians in this attempt, and supplied by them with Provisions; I have only to add, that Canada being in the hands of the Rebels, will deprive to Province of every resourse for supplying the Army, Navy, and the Inhabitants of...
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
By His Excellency Francis Legge Esquire, Captain General & Governor ih Chief in and over His Majesty's Province of Nova: Scotia, and its dependencies Vice Admiral of the same &c &c &c
A Proclamation
Whereas in prejudice of all order and regularity, a daring and traiterous Rebellion, against his Majestys Person and Government, at present Subsists in many of His Plantations, and...
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Sir From frequent accounts and informations which I receive, the Coast of this Province from Canso to Cape Sables, is much expos'd to the Insults and depredations of the New England Pirates, they began at Canso and having taken an English Schooner thereabouts, & other Vessels elsewhere (by their own accounts) the[y] proceeded to Cape Sables to a place call'd Yarmouth, where they landed; it...
Date: 15 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3