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Sir Having Omitted it, till my dispatches were sealed up, I beg you may be pleased to communicate to my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, my having appointed Mr William Jackson Masters Mate, to be Master of this His Majesty's Ship, which I hope their Lordships will approve...
Chs Douglas
The letter of which the following is a Copy, I have this Moment received from Lieut. Governor...
Date: 26 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir As soon as I can form a Magazine, or have up victualling Ships sufficient for the Army, I purpose marching the Troops by Land, at least such of them as are in Ships of too great a Draught of Water, or who may not have favorable Winds: for this Purpose a number of boats will be absolutely necessary, both for Transporting their Baggage, and passing the Troops across from one shore to another...
Date: 29 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
As I wrote in great hast, at Three Rivers yesterday in order to save the Express which was setting out, I had not time to give you any Particulars of the action at Three Rivers on the 8th instant, between the King's Troops and a Party of Rebel forces. I have great pleasure in congratulating you on the success of that day, which I hope will be attended, with very happy consequences. A little...
Date: 11 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir, You will herewith receive the Orders it has been necessary for me to transmit to the different Commanders of the Ships of War stationed in the River St: Laurence, in consequence of my Appointment to the Command in chief of the Ships and Vessels of His Majesty's Fleet employed and to be employed in North America. And I am to desire You will cause the same to be delivered as You have...
Date: 13 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir I have great pleasure in acquainting you that the rebels left Montreal last Night in hast & confusion and are all gone towards Champly & St Johns ー The Transports having all join'd us in the lake we anchored at Sorel the 14th in the evening, and found the rebels had deserted it a few hours before, the General landed part of the Grenadiers & light Infantry the same evening, &...
Date: 16 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir I am finishing my dispatches for England with all the expedition possible, and they shall be sent off from here tomorrow or next day at farthest, so that if you have prepared a vessel to be sent home I must beg you will detain her till the Officer whom I send arrives at Quebec, or if you have not yet ordered any ship for this service, I hope you will think it necessary to be done now, in...
Date: 21 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir I inclose you an extract of a letter which I have just received from Mr [John] Robinson of the Treasury, and as I doubt not you will see the necessity of dispatching the ships therein alluded to, I must beg you will give orders for the departure of those already unloaded, and of all others as fast as they can be discharged by the Commissarys of Provisions I am &c.
Date: 29 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir I wrote to you some time past to beg you would send me all the Artificers which could be found, for the purpose of boat building; and not having had the favour of an answer, my impatience, in this so essential point, obliges me again to urge, that you would have the goodness to order up to us, all those Artificers that are called of the navy, and said to be intended for Hallifax, and if there...
Date: 3 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I recd on the 10th Inst by Capt Hamilton your Letters of the 8th & 15th of last Month; the former giving an Account of your arrival at Quebeck on the 6th in the Isis, together with the Surprize & Martin Sloop, after having forced with the utmost difficulty a passage through large fields of Ice, & of the happy consequences which attended it; the latter acquainting their Lordships with...
Date: 22 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I have this Day received and communicated to my Lords Commissrs the Admiralty your Letter of the 21st of July last, giving an account of your proceedings from the 27h of June to that time, and in return I have the satisfaction to acquaint you their Lordships approve thereof.
As the Beaver Sloop could not be got ready in time to proceed to Quebec this Season, their Lordships have judged it...
Date: 5 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
My Dear Sir I seize the first instant of my Intelligence, to inform you, that the Rebel Fleet, was found Yesterday Morning, at Anchor between the Isle Val[c]our, and the Main: They had intended to sail as this Morning: and it was a Compleat Surprize. Our Fleet got above them, And the Carleton with one Division of Artillery Boats engaged; the rest of the Ships could not get into action, the Wind...
Date: 12 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Sir It will no doubt give you pleasure to learn, that the armament, to the fitting out of which you so much contributed, has answered so well the end for which it was intended by having already given the Rebel fleet a total defeat. The 11th Instant we found fifteen sail of them behind the Island of Valcour, not expecting our visit so soon, our attack, that day, was only with a part of our force,...
Date: 14 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Sir I have received your letters of the 8th and 13th Inst relating to the seamen whom you desire to be sent down. orders for which have already been given by me, as Captain [Thomas] Pringle will more particularly inform you of.
I am very sorry to hear you think the Blonde cannot winter here. I was in hopes that if she could not remain in the Cul de sac some other place might be found, such as...
Date: 21 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Sir I have already said so much to you upon the necessity of having a considerable number of seamen in readiness for the Lake Service, that I can now only repeat, for the reasons before alledged, my request that you will leave as many as possible in Canada; and that particularly the Frigates of which I wrote lately may remain, as they can furnish in the greatest proportion, and our wants will be...
Date: 22 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I have already sayd so much on the Necessity of having a considerable Number of Seamen in readiness for the Lake Service, that I can now only repe[at] my request, that you will for the reasons I have before alledged, leave as many as possible in Canada, & that, particularly the Frigates of which I wrote lately may remain, as they can furnish in the greatest Proportion and our own wants will...
Date: 8 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Lords Commissioners, Admiralty, to Captain Charles Douglas, H.M.S. Isis, Spithead, December 12, 1776
You are hereby required and directed to repair with His Majesty's Ship under your Command into Portsmouth Harbour, where we have ordered her to be cleaned, graved, and refitted, stored for foreign Service, and her Provisions completed to Six Months of all Species except Beer, of which she is to have as much as she can conveniently stow, and to be equipped with wine or spirits in lieu of the...
Date: 12 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7