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September 1776
Sunday 8th
Cape Tiberoon NbE 5 or 6 Leagues
Fresh Gales and cloudy weather, at 4 P M in 2d reef at 6 Cape Tiberoon N½W 8 or 9 Leagues Variation Pr Ampltde S,39Et, att 8 close reeft topsls and got down top Gallt Yards at 10 handed fore and Mizn topsl fired 2 Six pounders at the Packet to make her keep her Station,2 she being a great way to windward and going a head,...
Date: 8 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
September 1776
Saturday 14
Island Tortuga ENE 5 or 6 Leaguesー
at 4 AM fired 2 Guns made the signal to wear and sail on the other Tack at 6 out 2d and 3d reef topsls and set Mizn topsl at 7 tacked a Strange Sail in Company
Moderate breezes and cloudy wr at 3 PM fired a Gun and made the Signal for the Convoy to come under our Stern, at 4 repeated the, private Signal, made sail and gave Chace...
Date: 14 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Extract of a Letter from Captain Thomas Lloyd of His Majestys Sloop Atalanta, dated at Sea the 16th September 1776.
I am sorry to be under the Necessity of laying a Complaint before you against the Master of the Packet but his Conduct has been such that I cannot look over it, On Monday the 9th September P M, the Packet went a head, Fird two, 6, Pounders to make her keep her Station, when she came...
Date: 16 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
September 1776
Monday 16
Island Tortuga W½N 6 Leagues
at 40 Minutes past 10 [A.M.]brot too a Vessel from Salem, sent a Petty Officer and 5 men on board2
Fresh breezes and fair weather made sail and gave Chase at 2 P M fired a Gun and made the signal to a Ship which we took to be the Squirrel at 3 shortned Sail and brot too, at 4 the Prize parted company wore and made sail in 2d...
Date: 16 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
October 1776
Wednesday 2
Grand Caicos Wt End SSW
At 4 A M bore away & out 2d and 3 reef TSs set Steerg Sails saw 2 Sail in the SW Qr
at 1 P M saw 3 Vessels at Anchor in Shore hauld down Studg Sails Brot too & hoisted the Boats out, sent them to speak 3 Vessels in North Caicos Harbour, at 5 fired a gun and made the signal for the Boats 1/2 pt repeated Do the NW part of the Grand Caicos...
Date: 2 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
February 1777
Saturday 15
At Anchor in the Havannah Moro Fort NW½N the Punto WBN the Governors Bastion SBE and the North Bastion W ½S —
at 5 AM brat too off the Moro, hoisted the boat out, and sent an Officer on Shore with a Letter for the Governor ½ past 10 the Boat came on board with the Governors Aid de Camp, the Lieut of the Flag Ship, and the Interpriter Don Meguil Edwards, made a Tack...
Date: 15 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7
April 1777
Thursday 24
In the River Mississippi
Light Airs and fair,
Spoke 2 Brigs from Jamaica weighed and came to Sail
½ past 7 Anchord with the Best Bower in 7 fm veerd to ½ of a Cable sent the Boat with the Lieut to New Orleans
Friday 25
at 10 AM Weighed and came to Sail, empd running up the Mississippi
Moderate breezes and fair weather,
PM Spoke a French Brig bound to Port Au...
Date: 25 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I received your Excellency's Letter of date the 26t Instant, acquainting me of a Complaint being made to you, that I detained & examined a Vessel & fired several Shot at her, and that some of the Officers on board His Britannic Majesty's Ship under my Command, asked the Master some improper Questions; about 8 OClock in the Evening of the 21st instant, I fired one Swivel at a Sloop to...
Date: 27 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
In my Letter to your Excellency of Date the 27th April last, I desir'd the favour that you would give me your reasons for seizing the Vessels, belonging to the British Subjects, and putting the Masters with their Crews in confinement, to which have not received an Answer. My Duty as Commander of one of His Britannick Majesty's Ships of War, obliging me to take cognizance of such public Matters as...
Date: 4 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I receiv'd yours of date 11th Decemr: last acquainting me that the Stores demanded, are to be sent by the Hornet; Inclos'd I send you some other Demands His Majesty's Ship under my Command being much distress'd for want of Stores; I have Careen'd and Sheathed His Majesty's Sloop West Florida, and the Carpenter, reports to me that she will not run longer than six months...
Date: 18 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
At a Council held in the Council Chamber
at Pensacola on Thursday the 19th. day of March 1778—
His Excellency laid before the Board a Letter which he had received from Joseph Nunn Esqr. Commander of His Majestys Sloop of War Hound in Answer to the Governors Letter of Yesterday and the same being read was ordered to be entered on the Minutes in the Words following
Hound Sloop...
Date: 19 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11
I beg leave to inform You that I wrote Admiral Gayton by His Majesty's Ship Southampton, acquainting him that the Convoy would not be ready to Sail on the 15 Inst. agreeble to his Order and that Manchack in the Province of West Florida was invaded by a party of Rebels
I was sent for in Council and it was the Governor and Councils Opinion that the Atalanta should remain here till further certain...
Date: 26 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11