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Having Cruised with His Majesty's Sloop under my Command off St. Croix agreeable to your directions of the 10th June last, inclosing an anonymous Letter; setting forth there was a Combination between that Place and the British Colonies of America, and that he (the Writer) was informed they had Shipped from that Place to America, a quantity of Gun Powder and Ammunition; ー I am to acquaint you it...
Date: 3 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I am to acquaint you I Disembarked the Three Company's of the 60th Regiment at St Augustine the 11th April 1776, agreeable to your directions. On my Arrival there found in the Harbour His Majesty's Armed Schooner Hinchinbrook, Commanded by Lieutenant [Alexander] Ellis, who informed me he had intelligence of the Rebels fitting Arm'd Vessels in the adjacent Rivers. I thought it my duty to give him...
Date: 21 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I am to inform you that yesterday I fel in with a Brig from Nantucket bound for Bordeaux, but she loosing her Masts in the Lattde 38° North, obliged her to make the best of her way for some of the French Islands, we fell in with her a little to leeward of Marigallant [Marie-Galante], I was under the necessity of taking her in tow, as eight points is as near as She can lie when close hauled.2...
Date: 4 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
January [1777]
Thursday 23
Working between Statia & Saba
A M fired 9 Six Pds at a Sloop & brat her too from St Croix to St Eustatia with Rice detain'd her & sent an Officer & Men in her to St Kitts 2 Exercis'd great Guns & Fired Volleys of small Arms —
P M came to [o] in Sandy Point [St. Kitts].
Date: 23 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
February. 1777
Saturday 1
Town of Statia NNE 2 or 3 Miles
Standing off St Eustatia & St Kitts
P M took and sent to Sandy pt An American Sloop & Schooner. 2
Date: 1 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
February. 1777
Wednesdy 5
At Single Anchor in Sandy Point
[P. M.] Retd Tendr with an American Brig Loaded with Lumber 2
Date: 5 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Feby 1777
Saturday 8
Sandy point SBE 3 or 4 Miles
A M spoke to the Tendr who had detained at Sandy pt an Antigua Privateer bore up for Do
at 2 P M Came too in Sandy Point Exchanged hands the Sloop having 30 men & 8 Guns. at 6 Weighd & came to Sail in Co the three Privateer Prizes 2
Date: 8 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Feby 1777
Friday 14
Secur'd in Freemans Bay [Antigua] —
at 5 P M Fired 20 Minute Guns at Interment of Capt Thos Wilkinson Pr order of the Adml 2
Date: 14 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
In Answer to the Copy of a Memorial which You have received from my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty transmitted to them from the Earl of Suffolk one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State from Monsr de Hennoken the Danish Charge d' Affairs, complaining of my Conduct in His Majesty's Ship Hind under my Command: in the Road Fredericstadt, off one of the Danish West India Islands: and...
Date: 25 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
March [1777]
Tuesday 18
St Kitts SSW 8 or 9 Miles
Sent the Beaver in Chace to the SE
Modt & Fair
PM Gave Chase to 2 Sail in the NE Qr 10 Fir'd Nine Pr & took a Ship from N Carolina with Lumber2
Date: 18 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8