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I am to acquaint you that last night His Majesty's Sloop Swan arrived at this place having a few days ago fallen in with the Dispencer Packet, bound to Boston, and taken out of her the Dispatches for General Howe and me; all which I have received and caused to be delivered; and am particularly to acknowledge the receipt of their Lordships Order of the 29th March, wherein they are pleased to...
Date: 12 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir You'll be pleased to inform my Lords Commissrs of the Admty that the Hawk a Brigantine from Amsterdam bound to St Thomas's a Danish Island in the West Indies belonging to North Carolina, Thos Tingey Master having put into this Port, as he says to procure him a Mediterranean Pass, that upon my going on board her and examining her papers, found her to be American property, I therefore in...
Date: 23 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
I have received your Letter of the 8th instt inclosing a Copy of an Article of Intelligence respecting Virginia and Maryland, which I shall endeavor to make a proper use of when occasion offers. ー I have also received the Duplicate of your Letter of the 8th instt giving an Account of the return of the Triton to Plymouth, dismasted, and that their Lordships had order'd the Milford, which was then...
Date: 21 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
Please to acquaint their Lordships that this evening His Majesty's Ship Active came in here, and by her I received the Original Letter dated the 8th instt relative to the return of the Triton, and the Milford's being order'd to carry her dispatches to Rear Admiral Shuldham. I am Sir [&c.]
Date: 22 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
In my last Letters of the 21st & 22d instt, I mention'd the arrivals of the Solebay, Friendship Arm'd Ship, and the Actaeon ー and yesterday I received a Letter from Captain [James] Reid, that he put into Crook: Haven the 12th instt, and that the Pigot Hospital Ship was forced in by bad weather the day before ー Captain Reid complains that the Thunder Bomb is weakly Handed, and Fourteen short...
Date: 24 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
In my last Letter of the 24th instt I acquainted you with the arrival of the Thunder Bomb Tender at Castle Haven, and His Majesty's Ship Sphynx at Kinsale, and sent, for their Lordships information, the Rendezvous I have appointed, which is from three to Ten Leagues So Wt from Cape Fear in North Carolina, with directions to make the Land every day. On Thursday evening the 25th instt His Majesty's...
Date: 30 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3