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In case the following Measures which I judge to be necessary for His Majesty's Service, should not be carried into execution before my departure from this place, I think it expedient to make you acquainted with them, that the proper Orders for the purposes hereafter mentioned may be given, when the Command in this Port may devolve on you.
Her Orders are left with you
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I intend the...
Date: 5 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I understand that some Rebel Traders in the New England Provinces have established a Correspondence and are forming Connexions with certain ill affected persons in Nova Scotia through whom they expect to receive Supplies of Merchandize from England and that there is now a Vessel loading in the River upon this Account, The Ship is owned and commanded by Malachy Salter and proposed to be cleared...
Date: 20 July 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I have received your Dispatches of the 31st December & 31 January, by His Majesty's Ships Lizard & Liverpool, and laid them before the King. His Majesty read with great satisfaction the account you give in the former of these Dispatches of the success with which the very proper & spirited Measures taken by yourself, General Massey & Sir George Collier, for the relief of Fort...
Date: 6 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Lieutenant [John] Orde of his Majesty's Ship under my command has acquainted me by letter of this date, that he has in my absence, confined the Boatswain for disobedience of Orders, contempt to his Superior officers & for using mutinous expresss
I am therefore to request you will be pleas'd (when opportunity offers) to order a Court Martial to be held on the said Boatswain to try him for...
Date: 4 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I have had the pleasure to receive your Letter Novr 7. notifying to me your Arrival in his Majs Ship Roebuck at Halifax in Quality of Resident Commissioner there, and also with a Commission appointing you Commander in Chief of his Majs Ships in Halifax Harbour in the Absence of a Flag or Senior Officer, I beg leave most sincerely to congratulate you on these Appointments and to express my...
Date: 5 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I beg leave to acquaint you that I have in consequence of my orders, examined the Cargo of the Bob & Joan Schooner, detained here last night by his Majesty's Ship under my command, and find that no part thereof appears perishable, except the Ten Barrells of Limes and Oranges. I am &ca
Date: 6 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
By the Fowey, who arrived with the Francis Transport the 26 Ulto, I received your Letter Novr 8 with a Copy inclosed of a Minute of the House of Assembly in Nova Scotia, appointing an Address to be presented to Governr Legge, and a Memorial to you from the Merchants at Halifax concerned in Navigation; and desiring to know how far I would have the Craft and Vessels belonging to the Province...
Date: 8 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
The Amity's Providence Transport arrived the 28th of November with the Seamen raised in Newfoundland, and Lieut. Robertson delivered me your Letter of the 17th Ulto. I am much obliged to you for your particular Representation concerning the Want of Ordnance Stores at Halifax, which I shall not fail also to represent; but, excepting Match, I have had no Complaint of a deficiency of small Stores...
Date: 12 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
I have received your Letters of the 5th 9th 15th and 16th of last Month and have delivered them to Rear Admiral Shuldham my Successor in the Command of his Majesty's Squadron on this Station, who will consequently soon send you his Directions. I have only to desire that the Ship Nicholas, laden with Hemp and other Naval Stores, may be libelled in the Admiralty Court for not unlading in some port...
Date: 2 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3