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I beg leave to acquaint you, that I have received your Letters of the 31st Janry & 1st Febry last, in Answer to those of mine of the 22nd Novr & 9th Decr, 1774, and am glad I have the Honor to meet with their Lordships approbation, in regard to my Duty.
I beg leave to acquaint their Lordships, that by the last Pensacola Pacquet, I received a Letter from Captain Rodney, of His Majesty's...
Date: 19 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
In my Letter of the 30th of last March I acquainted you of my having Seiz'd one William Platt as being concernd in taking the Ammunition and Warlike Stores Belonging to Government out of the Ship Philippa at Georgia and that as I had apprehended him in the Body of the Island I imagined he came under the Jurisdiction of the Governor ー
I beg leave to acquaint their Lordships that after I had got...
Date: 13 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I beg leave to acquaint their Lordships that His Majestys Ship Antelope Sail'd Yesterday with the First Convoy and that it was my Intentions to have Strengthen'd it with the Squirrel had it not been for the repeated Solicitations from the Governor to bring in by Sea the several Companies of that Regiment which were Detatch'd in different parts of the Island To His first Application I answer'd...
Date: 14 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
A pamphlet has been circulated here under the title of "CommonSense," which was sent hither from America. It is written with great virulence against the English administration; and its design is to stir up the colonists to assert their independency on the mother country. There are many false assertions in it, one of which Admiral Gayton had thought proper to contradict in the Jamaica Gazette, in...
Date: 29 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Herewith you'll receive Duplicates of what I wrote by the last Pacquet, and I beg leave to acquaint their Lordships that His Majestys Ship Pallas, the Honble Captain [William] Cornwallis arriv'd here the 21st of last Month, that he left the Atalanta at Barbadoes, and expect her arrival every Day.
I beg leave to acquaint their Lordships that the Squirrel did not arrive with the Company of the 50th...
Date: 2 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Herewith you'll receive a Duplicate of my Letter of the 2nd inst, and I beg leave to acquaint their Lordships that His Majestys Ship Boreas Sail'd the 3rd inst with the 50th Regiment for North America and Inclos'd is the Embarkation return of that Regiment for their information
I likewise beg leave to acquaint them that His Ma jestys Sloop Atalanta arriv'd the 8th instant from Barbadoes and that...
Date: 25 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I beg leave to acquaint their Lordships that His Majestys Ship Pallas was to have Sail'd the 26th of last Month with near a hundred Sail of the Trade had not an intend'd general Insurrection of the Negroes been discovered, which oblig'd the Governor with the advice of his Council to lay a general Embargo on the Shipping, to establish Martial Law, & to request me, to keep the Ships under my...
Date: 5 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Whereas I have receiv'd Intelligence that there are several Arm'd American Privateers Cruizing in the Windward Passage particularly about the Caicos's where they are Supplied with great quantities of Gun Powder & Ammunition by Vessels under French Colours.
You are therefore hereby requir'd & directed to proceed with his Majestys Ship under your Command together with his Majestys Schooner...
Date: 25 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Pursuant to my Lords Commissioners of the Admtys direction,
You are carefully to avoid Cruizing off the Ports, or approaching so near the Coasts of the French & Spanish Possessions within the Limits of your Station, as to give any unnecessary umbrage or interruption to the Subjects or Trade of those Nations, or any just cause of Complaint which you are likewise to direct Lieutenant [James]...
Date: 29 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I have the pleasure to inform their Lordships, that since my letter of the 5th of last Month, Martial Law has been taken off, and that Peace & Tranquility is again restor'd to the Inhabitants, and beg leave to inclose for their information a Copy of a Letter I receiv'd from the Governor on that Subject.
I likewise beg leave to acquaint them that His Majestys Ship Winchelsea Captain [Nathaniel...
Date: 3 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I beg leave to lay before their Lordships the Situation, we are in for want of Stores particularly Masts and Bowspreets, those that are in Store being entirely decay'd. the Squirrel after her late Cruize; came in with her Fore Mast Sprung & before she could get another, was oblig'd to take out three Sticks, two of which in Working prov'd to be decay'd, the Winchelsea has likewise had the...
Date: 3 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I have the honor of your Letter by Monsr Desfarge de la Valtiere, your Second Lieutenant concerning a Vessel belonging to His Britanick Majestys Rebellious Colonies in North America which has been Seiz'd by his Ship the Squirrel
I beg leave to acquaint you that after the repeatd assurances which have been given from all the Foreign Powers to His Britanick Majesty of not Interfereing or affording...
Date: 18 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Herewith you'll receive Duplicates of what I sent you by the last Packet
I beg leave to acquaint their Lordships that the 17th of last Month, a French Frigate arriv'd Command'd by The Chevr de Monteil, the occaision of His coming was to claim a Rebel Schooner which had been Seiz'd by His Majestys Ship Squirrel and sent into Port Royal; The Chevalier in his claim sets forth, that she was taken...
Date: 8 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The 13th instant by the Comet Packet, I had the Honor of Receiving a Duplicate of your Letter of the 14th Septr last, acquainting me of your having great reason to believe the Rebels had an Intention of Invading West Florida and Requesting that I would send to Pensacola with all Convenient Speed, Such part of my Squard[r]on as could be Spared from the Jamaica Station
In answer to which I beg...
Date: 25 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Herewith you'll receive Duplicates of my Dispatches of the 16th November last. The 6th of Decr I had the Honor of receiving their Lordships Original orders for Employing the Racehorse & Badger as Sloops, instead of Cutters, and to use my best endeavours either to take or destroy such of the American Continental Frigates as might appear within the limits of my Station, duplicates of which I...
Date: 8 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Since I closed my dispatches, I have received Information of two American Privatiers having cut out a Ship nearly loaded, from one of the Harbours on the North side of the Island, which obliges me instead of sending the Winchelsea to follow the Maidstone, for the Protection of the Convoy expected from England (which I inform'd their Lordships was my intention) to station her on the North side, in...
Date: 11 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
By his Majestys Ship Glasgow Captain [Thomas] Pasley, I received their Lordships several orders, and by the Packet your Letter of the 4th December last, with an Account of a French Armament fitting out at Brest, and destined for the West India Islands, all which I shall pay due attention to. I beg you'll inform their Lordships that from repeated Solicitations of the Merchants I have detain'd his...
Date: 20 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Since His Majesty's Ship Maidstone sail'd from Bluefields, the 4th of this Month, with the Convoy Consisting of about 40 sail of Ships & Vessels, I have Intercepted the inclosed letters found in a Bale of Goods out a Vessel taken by One of my Cruizers, and Supposed to be bound for St Peters Mecalon [Miquelon], which their Lordships will see what a Trade is Carried on with the Rebellious...
Date: 14 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
By Clark Gayton Esqr Rear Admiral of the Red, & Commander in Chief, of His Majesty's Ships, & Vessells, Employed, & to be Employed at & about Jamaica &c &c
Whereas the Inhabitants of several of His Majestys Colonies, & Plantations, in North America, Viz in New Hampshire, Massachusets Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pensylvania, the three lower...
Date: 29 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
By Clark Gayton Esqr Rear Admiral of the Red, & Commander in Chief, of His Majestys Ships & Vessells Employed, & to be Employed, at & about Jamaica &c &c ー
You are hereby required & directed, if you find it unsafe, to continue in the Ships & Vessels, which you may Seize & Detain (in concequence of my orders) the Men, who belong to them, to compleat your...
Date: 29 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2