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Sir I have just now received information that there's lying in your Road a Sloop lately arrived from Philadelphia ー as I wou'd not wish to do any thing, which might be deemed an Infringement of the treaties, & good Harmony, Subsisting between their high mightinesses, and the King of Great Britain my Master, I therefore request your Excellencys Sanction, for Seizing the aforementioned Vessel...
Date: 10 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir Till I had the honour of receiving your Excellencys Letter, I did not know that their High Mightinesses Governors had Orders to protect the Vessels, belonging to the King of Great Britain's Rebellious Colonies. I have the honor to be Sir [&c.]
Date: 10 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
June 1776
Tuesday 18th
at Sea
at 5 A M Saw a Sail in the NE Gave Chase Fired 1 Shott & Swivells at the Chace ½ past 7 Do She Brot too & proved to be The Fox Schooner Capt Josiah Buck from New London for Curracoa The Boat Empd Exchanging the prisoners & Sending provisions on Board the prize, at 12 Do Bonair NEBN. 3 Leags prize in Compy.
at 1 P M Saw a Sail in the NE gave Chase...
Date: 18 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
August 1776
Sunday 18th
Off Martinico
At 6 A M Spoke an English Sloop from St Luica
1st Pt fresh Breezs & Hazey, Middle & Latter Pts Do Breezs & rain. at 2[P]M Saw a Sail to the Wt ward. Gave Chace At 9 Do bro't too under Martinico at 12 Do bro't too a Schooner. Sent the Lieut on board bro't on board the Master & Exchanged the People.
Monday 19th
at 10 A M Made the...
Date: 19 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
August 1776
Friday 30
At Sea
First & Middle Pts Moder & fair, Latter Pt Squally with rain, At 5 A M hoisted a boat out & sent her on board a Schooner from Surinam bound to Newberry. Sent a Petty Officer & Six hands on board her took her hands Out, At 10 A M made Sail, parted Company with the Prize.
Light breezs & fair Wr at 6 P M Saw a sail to the N E
Saturday 31st...
Date: 31 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
August 1776
Saturday 31st
At Sea Latite in 26:02 North
At 5 AM hoisted a boat out & sent her on board a Schooner from Surinam bound to Newberry. Sent a Petty Officer & Six hands on board her took her hands Out. At 10 A M made Sail, parted Company with the Prize.
Light breezs & fair Wr
September
Sunday 1st
at 6 P M Saw a Sail to the NE
At 5 AM Saw a Sail to the No wd gave...
Date: 1 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
November 1776
Sunday 10th
At Sea [off St. Martin]
At 9 A M Sent the Boat on board a Schooner bro't the Captain on board, & Sent a Petty Officer on board her. At 12 Do the Town of Great Bay St Martins ENE½E.
Date: 10 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Novemr 1776
Saturday 23rd
At Sea [off St. Eustatius]
At 6 AM Manned the Pinnace & Sent her after a Schooner at 12 Do the town of St Eustatia NNE 2 Leagues.
Do [Light airs] & fair Wr Sent the Cutter on board a Sloop from St Martins to St Eustatia at 6 PM the Pinnace Retd having taken the Schooner, Proved to be from Baltimore in New England [sic] to St Eustatia Sent an Officer & 6...
Date: 23 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
This will be delivered to you by Mr Knapp who goes to Antigua in a Dutch Sloop — laden (with Flour and Tobacco) which I took on sunday night between St Eustatia and St Martins.2
I go from hence as soon as it is dark, in hopes of intercepting an Armed Vessel, which I gave you an Account of in the Letter I wrote you by Mr Gray who left me the 24th instant, off Sandy Point in a Schooner...
Date: 27 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
December 1776
Sunday 15th
At Sea [off St. Eustatius]
At 6 A M Saw a Sail, Gave Chace Carried away the Larbd Main Studding Sail, At 10 Fired Shott She bro't too Sent the boat on board proved a Schooner from Philadelphia to St Eustatia. Exchanged the Prisoners At 12 AM St Eustatia NW 2 Miles —
Date: 15 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Sir I beg leave to acquaint your Excellency with the arrival of His Britannic Majesty's Ship the Seaford in the Road of Statia, being charged with some dispatches from Vice Admiral Young to your Excellency; I beg to know, when it will be most convenient for your Excellency, to let me have the Honor of waiting on you with them.
I beg leave to observe to your Excellency, that it has hitherto been...
Date: 16 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
I have just now been Honoured with your Excellency's answer to my letter of this days date, and beg leave to acquaint you that I will do myself the Honour of waiting on your Excellency with Vice Adml Youngs dispatches to morrow at 11-o'-Clock I have the honour to be Sir [&c.]
was Sign'd J. H. Colpoy's
Date: 16 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Sir, In obedience to your orders of the 14th Instant, delivered to me by Lieut Tinsley of the Endeavour, I immediately proceeded to the Island of St Eustatia, where, at my arrival, I sent an Officer, to wait on Governor de Graaf, with a Letter, a Copy of which, with his answer, I herewith inclose you.2
His Answer was brought on board to me by one of his Aid de Camps who informed me,...
Date: 23 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
March 1777
Friday 14th
At Sea
At 6 P M Barbadoes WbS½S 9 or 10 Leags At 9 Do Fired a Shott brot too a Sloop Proved an English Sloop from Damerara for Barbadoes, taken by an American Privateer, Exchanged the Prisoners, Sent the Sloop to Barbadoes.
Date: 14 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
April 1777
Tuesday 1st
At Sea
At 6 A M the So mst Point of Guadalupe SSE½E
Mo breezs & fair Wr
Fired 1 Shott brot too a Schooner from Martinico bound to St Peters, Sent a Petty Officer & 5 Men on board her & took her Men out.2
Date: 1 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
April 1777
Saturday 5th
At Sea
At 1 AM Saw a Sail, Gave Chace, at 2 Do fired 2 Shott bro't too the Chace, Proved a French Ship from Martinico for Miquelon, Sent an Officer & Some Men on board her.2
At 12 AM Rosoa E½N 2 Miles.
Modere breezes & Cloudy Wr
At 1 PM bro't too off Rosoa, Fired 25 Guns [in] Return [for] Different Signals of[£) Rosoa, from the Shiping. People Empd...
Date: 5 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
January 1778
Sunday 18th.
At Sea Latitd. 12 : 12 No: Obsd.
At 10 AM Read the Articles of War to the Ships Company—
At Sea Latit d. 13 : 1 No: Obsd.
Fresh breezs: & fair Wr. At 4 PM Saw a Sail to the No: Wd: Gave Chace At ½ Past 8 PM Fired 23 Shott at the Chace bro't...
Date: 18 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
February 1778
Tuesday 10th.
At Sea Latitde. 12 : 45 No: Observd:
At ½ Past 2 AM Saw a Sail Att 3 Do. fired 1 Shott bro't too a Brigg, Proved an English Brigg from Newfoundland to Barbadoes,1 taken by a Rebel Privateer,2 Exchang'd the Prisoners and Sent the Brigg to Barbadoes—
At Sea Latitd. 13..45 No...
Date: 10 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
February 1778
Saturday 28th.
At Sea Latitde: 13..50 No: Obsd: [off St. Lucia]
At 8 AM Saw a Sail to the So.wd. Gave Chace At 12 Left off Chace—
At Sea Latitde: 13..50 No: Obsd:
Ditto Wr. [Moderate breezs: and fair Wr.] At 1 PM Saw a Sail in the NW Gave Chace, At...
Date: 28 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
March 1778
Monday 2nd.
Roseau Bay Dominica
Ditto Wr. [Moderate breezs: and fair Wr.] At 1 PM the Sloop Harlequin belongg. to Antigua, bro't in a Prize Brig from Surinam to Boston, At 2 the Brig Liberty, belonging to Dominica, bro't in a Prize Sloop from Georgia to Martinico
Date: 2 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11