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Having been appointed Commissary for Prisoners in this Department, I am in the absence of Sir Peter Parker to acknowledge the Receipt of your Letter of the 13th: Inst: relative to the Prisoners wrote for from Halifax and the Release of Messrs: Mc: Hurd & Goodwin for whom two British Prisoners are said to have been already sent.
Being, by the neglect of the...
Date: 24 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
The American Prisoners under my Care suffering greatly by Sickness and other Effects of the inclement Season, And as no adequate means of Relief can be had at this Port; I am directed to advise You of their distressed Situation; and to propose the landing of them at Bristol or Warwick-Neck if that Expedient is approved: On condition however, that such of them as were taken in Arms, do not Serve...
Date: 19 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Having been advised that the Cartel-Ship named the Royal Bounty1 engaged and fitted for the removal of several American Prisoners from Hallifax to be Exchanged at this Port, has been forcibly carried into Marblehead; And the customary Exemptions from restraint in the Case of Vessels of the same description, denied in this Instance: I am in my Duty as Commissary of Prisoners in this...
Date: 28 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
The same principle of Humanity professed in the Letter I have received from You of the 25th: Inst: and the just adherence to Engagements in the Correspondence with Mr: Cooke regarding the Exchange of Prisoners transacted under his Direction, were the motives for the proposal in my last of the 19th:—
A List will be transmitted with the Prisoners to be Landed, as...
Date: 28 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11