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I have the Honour to acquaint You that agreeable to Your Orders I proceeded with the Transports under my Command to the Island of Montserrat, where the Fleet arrived on the 22d Instant [sic] ー light and Contrary Winds, together with inattention (or the very bad Sailing of the Diamond and two of the Briggs) prevented our doing it sooner ー the Hessians I found on my arrival had quitted Montserrat...
Date: 1 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Febery. 1778
Saturdy 7
At Single Anchor in Seacconnett Passage,
½ past 12 AM Weighed and Worked higher up the Passage,
At Single Anchor in Seacconnett Passage,
Modt and Clear first part Remdr Calm and heazey [PM] Working to Windd Obsd a Rebell ship at Anchor, of[f] Goulds Island1 which Determined me to Anchor more in...
Date: 7 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11
March 78
Tuesday 17
At Single Anchor in Seaconnett Passage Rhode Island,
Fresh Breezes with Rain Loosed Sails Discovered a Rebell Schooner1 under sail off Goulds Island2 She fired two or three Guns Empd Watering
At Single Anchor in Seaconnett Passage Rhode Island,
Fresh Winds and Clear, Sighted the Anchor And veered a whole Cable Observed a Sloop At Anchor,...
Date: 17 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11
March 78
Wednesday 18
At Single Anchor in Seaconnett Passage Rhode Island
½ past [7] AM Saw a Sloop on Shore at Seacconnett Beach,1 Sent ye Boats Man'd and Armed hove into ½ a Cable, Empd Watering
At Single Anchor in Seaconnett Passage Rhode Island
Ditto Winds [Fresh Winds] and heazey [PM] the Sloop proved to be a Rebell Vessell the Boats not being Able to get...
Date: 18 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Mar 78
Thurdy 26
At Single Anchor in Seaconnett Passage Rhode Island,
Ditto Weather [Fresh Winds And Clear first part Remdr heazey]
At 9 AM Sighted the Anchor, and veered to ½ a Cable Observed the Rebell Galley1 to be still at Anchor, off Gould Island,2
Date: 26 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Mar 78
Saturday 28
At Single Anchor in the Seaconnett Passage Rhode Island, At 6 AM Observed a Rebel Brigg1 at Anchor off Goulds Island2 at 9 Observed her to be a ground off the point of Wantons Cove3 two Guns were fir'd from Howland's ferry:4 And several from the Rebell Works,
At Single Anchor in the Seaconnett Passage Rhode Island, Modt...
Date: 28 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11
The Rebel Brig of which you did me the Honor to advise me,1 made an attempt last Night, to push past, but by some accident grounded on the Reef, which you will observe marked near Wantons Cove;2 I went up this Morning with hopes that there was some possibility of annoying her with the gally;3 which I meant to have done by taking shelter under the NW point of Golds...
Date: 29 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11