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Whereas the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have directed me to appoint Convoys to the homeward bound Trade from these Islands: You are hereby required and drected to Compleat the Victualing &c of His Majesty's Ship Argo under your Command to three Months, and proceed to Basseterre at the Island of St Christophers; and make known to all such Merchant Vessels as are bound to Great Britain...
Date: 27 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
You are hereby required and directed to put to Sea in the Ship you command with the very first opportunity of Wind and Weather, and proceed to Cape Ortega}; and, after making that Cape, you are to cruize North from it, between the Latitude of 45 ° and 47 ° for the protection of the Trade of His Majesty's Subjects, and to use your best endeavours to intercept, seize or destroy any Cruizers or...
Date: 25 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Whereas we intend that His Majesty's Ship under your command together with the Cygnet Sloop, now on her passage to Cork, shall convoy the Trade bound from thence to the West India Islands; You are hereby required and directed to take the said Sloop under your command (her Commander being directed to obey your Orders) and so soon as the Wind shall be fair after the 20th Instant if the Cygnet shall...
Date: 14 February 1777
Volume: Volume 8
At a Council held in the Council Chamber at
Pensacola on Thursday the 5th day of March 1778—
His Excellency acquainted the Board that he had Convened them in Consequence of farther Intelligence he had received respecting the Transactions of the Rebels on the Mississippi Whereupon John Watkins of the Walnut Hills (about 35 Leagues above the Natchez) who came express with the particulars...
Date: 5 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11