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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
This Day I had the honor to lay before the Council of this His Majestys Island of Antigua your Letter of the 14th Inst dated from on board the Portland at English Harbour.
The Council gives full Credit to the information made to you of the No Americans offering at the Dutch, Danish & French Islands in these Seas unlimitted prices for Ammunition & Warlike Stores & they do not doubt but...
Date: 17 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir I received your Letter of the 22d August on Sunday last about four of the clock in the afternoon, and them immediately appointed a meeting of His Majts Council to be held in the town of Basseterre yesterday but there being no more than five members in this island, and one of them is so bad a state of health as to render him unable to attend, which I knew nothing of till the time appointed...
Date: 30 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
It is not without the greatest real Concern that I find myself reduced to the disagreeable Necessity of complaining to your Excellency of an Insult very recently offered to the Flag of their High Mightinesses the Lords States General of the United Netherlands and my person as Governor of this Island, by John Colpoys Esquire Commander of His Britannic Majesty's Ship of War the Seaford in the...
Date: 14 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
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
His Majesty's Ship Argo (whereof I am Purser) being Ordered to Victual and be got in readiness to Sail for England (on Account of the bad Condition she is found to be in) I request the favour you will please to permit me to Resign the Pursership of the Argo, in Order to Continue your Secretary; during the time of your Command. I am with the greatest respect, Sir [&c.]
Date: 8 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sir I arrived here the 27th Instant between one and two o'Clock, and immediately waited upon the Governor of this place, and deliver'd your Message, which he sent to the General of the Island at Port Royal, and the same evening returning from him a little before Dark I saw a Sail in the Offing with Colours which I was unacquainted with (being red and white striped, with a Union next the Staff), I...
Date: 29 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Sr: Least you should not have heard it, I take this opportunity of informing you, that the day before yesterday an American Vessell mounting Twenty six Carriage Guns was at Souffnir bay in St Lucie, and in that Bay and the Carenage were from ten to twelve other Americans, Whalers and on Traffick; the Privateer is represented as an uncommon fine Vessell, whether a consort of the one the Shark had...
Date: 3 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
According to the dispatch which your Excellency has just forwarded to me, the 4th of this month, I see that the account given you by Captain Chapman is not accurate.
The 27th of July last the Captain, being on land, noticed two leagues to the Windward, west of the Point, a ship which maneuvered, to come to anchor in the Roadstead of St. Pierre. He embarked forthwith, cut his cables, weighed...
Date: 7 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I have received and communicated to my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your three Letters of the 13h and 31st. May and 1st June,2 with their respective Inclosures giving an account of your proceedings with the Squadron under your Command and of your having caused the Brigantine you have purchased to be commissioned and called the Endeavour, and appointed Lieutenant Francis Tinsley...
Date: 6 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I have received your Letter of the 20th of May,2 enclosing the Commission you had signed for Lieut Wm Young to be Commander of the Pomona upon the Vacancies occasion'd by the dismission of Captn Gordon from the Argo, and desiring for the reasons therein given, that it may be confirm'd, And having laid the same before my Lords Commrs of the Admty I have it in command from their...
Date: 7 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
My Lords Commrs of the Admty having received a Letter of this date from Mr Knox, Secretary to Lord Geo. Germain, informing them that his Lordship has received Intelligence that a large Schooner, called the Gunticanute, one Gregg Master, is now taking in at Amsterdam a Cargo of large Corpage, proper for rigging Ships of War, & proposed to be cleared out for the Island of St Eustatia, but that...
Date: 8 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I have communicated to my Lords Commrs of the Admty your Letter of the 1st July last,2 informing them of the Death of Robt Christian Esqr late Judge of the Vice Admty of Antigua; & recommending Edward Byam Esqr of that Island to succeed him in that Employment; And I am commanded to acquaint you that their Lordships have been pleased to appoint Mr Byam accordingly. I am &c-
Date: 6 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The West India Merchants have applied to my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty for a Convoy to the outward bound Trade, which will probably be ready to sail from Spithead about the middle of next Month; I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you that a Convoy will be appointed to see the Trade in safety to the Leeward Islands at that time accordingly. I am &ca.
Date: 7 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I have communicated to my Lords Commrs of the Admiralty your Letter of the 12 august last with its Inclosures, informing them that the Hind having struck the Ground coming into English Harbour which occasioned her to leak much, you had ordered her to be hove down to be examined as to the Damages she had received; and that having met with another Brigantine which, in a careful Survey, was reported...
Date: 3 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I received on the 16h past by the Argo your Letter of the 24h of July last and immediately laid the same with its Inclosures before my Lords Commrs of the Admiralty
Their Lordships were greatly pleased to see, in your former Letter of the 1st of July that it was your intention to send the Argo to England with the Trade which were to sail in August and immediately communicated it to the Merchants...
Date: 3 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Sir I have received your Letter of the 19th Instant and am extremely sorry to acquaint you, that the Accounts you have had of the dreadfull Disasters which have happened in this Island are too true, for on the 5th Instant about one or two in the Morning a Fire broke out in the Town of Basseterre and from the fury and continuance of its Progress consumed all the Storehouses except one or two, and...
Date: 21 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
(Private)
Tho I have not the honor of being known to you I trust that this letter will not be considered either officious or intrusive To give an account of oneself is certainly awkward; nor would I attempt it on any except the present occasion, I must therefore beg leave to inform you that I left London the place of my residence last June & there had the honour of being known to several high...
Date: 27 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
This will be delivered to you by Mr Knapp who goes to Antigua in a Dutch Sloop — laden (with Flour and Tobacco) which I took on sunday night between St Eustatia and St Martins.2
I go from hence as soon as it is dark, in hopes of intercepting an Armed Vessel, which I gave you an Account of in the Letter I wrote you by Mr Gray who left me the 24th instant, off Sandy Point in a Schooner...
Date: 27 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
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