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Mr Miller late Master of the sloop Morning Star taken off Black River bar on Mosquito Shore the 30th day of April last arrived here on the 6th Inst in order to procure a Vessel to carry dispatches to his Excellency Sir Basil Keith and yourself ー To these dispatches and such accounts as Mr Miller shall give of that unwarrantable Capture, we beg leave to refer you. And as his Majesty's Subjects,...
Date: 12 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir I have lately received information that several Ships of Force were fitting from different parts of America which are said to be intended to Cruize for and intercept the homeward bound West India Ships, both from these Islands and Jamaica: and as it has likewise been represented to me that Sundry Vessels from the West India Islands Laden with Gunpowder and Military Stores for the use of the...
Date: 13 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I take the opportunity of Captain Spears of the Ship Champion to transmit to you the fair Copy of our last years work. ー
It is generally thought here, and indeed both Mr Cobb and I are of the same opinion, that it would be very imprudent to proceed among the Florida Kays, where we left off last year, considering that New Providence has lately fallen into the hands of the Americans, and their...
Date: 20 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
The Honble Mr Barrett one of His Majestys Council, came last night from North Side, and informed me this day, that the Gentlemen of Character and Probity told him, that an intended general Insurrection of the Negroes of the Parish of Hanover was discovered a few days ago, which was to have taken place after the 26th of July, as by that time the Negroes supposed, not only the 50th Regiment would...
Date: 27 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
...I have Letters of the most alarming kind by which it appears the Parishes of Westmoreland & St James's are also at the Eve of General insurrection and indeed there is reason to think it was meant over great part of the Island I have not time to transcribe these informations which you shall have at Leisure I have only to Assure you that there is every reason to think this Island is in more...
Date: 23 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I met the Council this Morning, when I laid your Letter of yesterdays date before them, which gave the greatest Satisfaction to the Board, and in consideration of the protection and Assistance of those Ships & Vessels you assure us are to remain in the Ports of the Island for that purpose, and that the Stormy Season is fast advancing they have unanimously advis'd me to take the embargo off...
Date: 3 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I held a Council yesterday before whom I laid all the Papers and Informations I had receiv'd relative to the Internal situation of this Country since their last meeting on the 21st inst when the Board were unanimous in advising me to take off Martial Law provid'd I renew'd my former order of the 11th of July requiring the Colonels and Commanding Officers of. the Militia through the Island to keep...
Date: 28 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Have received & communicated to my Lords Commrs of the Admty your letter of the 28th of March last, with it's several Inclosures,2
Their Lordships are satisfied with the reasons you have given for ordering the Naval Storekeeper at Port Royal to purchase the Lady Keith Schooner, and, considering her as one of the three Schooners which they have directed you to purchase, will confirm...
Date: 5 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Having ordered the Complements of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels under your Command, whose names are on the other side hereof, to be increased to the Numbers against each respectively exprest You are hereby required and directed to give Orders to their Commanders to increase their Complements to those Numbers respectively, and to bear such increased Complements until they receive further Order....
Date: 5 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having thought it may be propr for the Ship, which you shall appoint for the Octor & Decr Convoys, to proceed with the said Convoy to England instead of the limits mentioned in their Lordships directions of the 17th of February last; I am commanded by their Lordships to signify their direction to you to order the Ship you shall appoint for the said...
Date: 9 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Whereas you have represented to Us by your Letter of the 2d July last, that the Racehorse Sloop which you had then purchased, and a Brig which you had then order'd to be purchas'd, in consequence of our Order of the 14th Feby last, are very fine Vessels and capable of being employ'd as Sloops bearing a Master & Commander; You are therefore hereby required and directed, to employ them as...
Date: 31 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Lord George Germain, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State having acquainted my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that the St Andrew, Captain McMe[is], and, the Mangam Captain McKenzie two Merchant Ships belonging to Messrs. Clark and Milligen laden with ammunition and Goods suitable for the India Trade, are ready to sail from hence for Pensacola, but in their way thither are to...
Date: 5 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I send to your Excellency Monsr. Desfarge de la Voltiere my Second Lieutenant who will desire you to permit me to have the Honor of seeing you he will first tell you the urgent reason why I left the Mole St Nicholas in such a hurry where I was engag'd to repair my Ship.
Monsr. de la Voltierre with respect will tell you concerning the matter that happen'd on the 14th. His Britanick Majestys Ship...
Date: 16 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
To Clark Gayton Esquire, Vice Admiral of the White & Commander in Chief of all His Majestys Ships & Vessels Employ'd and to be Employ'd at & about Jamaica and in the Gulf of Mexico from the River Mississippi to Cape Florida
The Humble Petition of Charles Irving and Alexr Blair both of the Town of Kingston in the said Island Officers in his Brittanic Majestys Service.
Sheweth/
That...
Date: 21 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Yesterday I received a Letter from a Gentleman at [New] Orleans, an Extract of which I think it necessary you should know as soon as possible, as by representing it to the Ministry a stop may be put to a Trade that is very detrimental to His Majts Service. This information is from undoubted authority, & may be relied on, my Letter is dated the 29th September.
"In the Month of August arrived...
Date: 27 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
In concequence of an Order from you dated 10th December directing me to give you an Account of my Proceedings with respect to the June Convoy which sail'd from Bluefields the 17th June under my Command. For that purpose I beg leave to lay before you an exact Copy taken from the Ships Log Signed by myself the Second & Third Lieutenants & Master from the 15th June to the 7th July, which...
Date: 15 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
His Majesty's Ship Glasgow, by which you will receive this, being appointed to convoy the Trade bound from England to the Leeward Islands & Jamaica: and being also ordered to convoy the Trade bound to West Florida as far as Jamaica: I am commanded by my Lords Commissrs of the Admty to signify their direction to you, upon the Arrival of the said Ship at Jamaica, to appoint a proper Convoy to...
Date: 18 October 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Lord Weymouth, One of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State having transmitted to my Lords Commrs of the Admty Copy of a Paper delivered by Monsr Garnier, charged with the Affairs of the Court of France containing an Extract of the Desposition made at Bourdeaux by Alexander Dubrouch Master of the French Ship Hercules setting forth the Proceedings of the Commander of His Majts Sloop the...
Date: 28 October 1776
Volume: Volume 7
My Lords Commrs of the admty having received a Memorial from the Merchants trading to the River Mississippi and West Florida, praying that orders may be given for a Ship of War to cruize at the Mouth of the Mississippi for the protection of the Trade, and to rendezvous there between the 15 of March and the 1st of april next, or at Pensacola or such other convenient place as shall be thought meet...
Date: 28 October 1776
Volume: Volume 7