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My Lord The General Assembly have met and Proceeded to Business, and they have passed several Bills, which I shall transmit to Your Lordship for His Majestys Confirmation, as soon as such Bills can be transcribed, and I can meet with an oportunety of Conveyance.
In Answer to the last Clause in Your Lordships letter No Six, I must Apologize, if the propositions Contained in my letter No 11, were...
Date: 1 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Lord A few days agoe, Your Lordships Dispatches reached my Hand, Via South Carolina.
In Answer to Your Lordships letter No 8, to the propositions in former letters, which Your Lordship is graciously pleased to Say You will Attend to, at a proper time. Your Lordship may now be of opinion, that the Situation we are now in, will Require it, more than in profound Peace. first in respect to the...
Date: 31 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Lords Your Lordship, and the Lords of Trade and plantations, will receive by the Brig Porgy, Allen Kirkpatrick Master, Eight Acts of Assembly, for His Majestys Royal Approbation or Dissallowance. the Remarks on those Acts, have been Dispatched to your Lordship, which I hope you will have Received.
The best Conveyance at present will be, via Barbados or Antigua as my last letters Received by...
Date: 2 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Lord In the night of the 14th. Instant August, when almost a Sufficient Number of Members of Assembly to make an House were come to Town Agreeable to Adjournment, I had less Suspicion than before, that such a daring and violent Attempt would be made on the Powder Magazine. which in the dead of the night of the 14th of Aupst was broke into on Top, just to let a man down, and the Doors most...
Date: 17 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir I purpose to send this Letter by a Boat to look out for the first conveyance, she can meet with by a Vessel passing by off this land, and particularly of any of His Majts Ships of War, bound either to the West Indies or to Europe.
To inform any Captain of His Majts Ships of War that the Powder Magazine at Bermuda was broke into on top and the doors violently and daringly forced open, at the...
Date: 19 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
If this letter should be handed to Your Lordship, by the Revd Mr Lyttleton, I am certain, the Service it may be to His Majesty will Sufficiently Recommend Him, to His Majestys favor and Protection, together with what I have wrote in a former letter; and the Accounts and Description that He can give Himself, of the miserable Situation I am in, without any Assistance.
We have some fine Ordnance...
Date: 20 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir, I beg the favour of your Excellency, to acquaint any of the Captains of His Majesty's Sloops of War that the Powder Magazine was broke open on the 14th Inst & about 100 Barrels stole out ー It may be supposed that they would have taken away all the Gunpowder, but I imagine they thought the remaining Barrels of Gunpowder would not bear removing for it seems one of the Barrels (near the...
Date: 22 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Lord My former letters will inform your Lordship of the Powder Magazine being broke into, and most Violently, and audaciously forced open, in the night of the 14th of August, when most of the Gentlemen of the assembly were come to Town, agreeable to the last Adjournment. The above Villanous Scheme was Effected when least expected.
I have repeatedly Represented the Necessity and want of some...
Date: 2 September 1775
Volume: Volume 1
the Nautilus Sloop of War Capt [John] Collins Commander, arrived at Bermuda the 9th of this month, which will be a great Support, and Countenance; to the few friends of Government here, and I hope will prevent, a Visit from any of the American privateers, or armed vessels, which it is said hath already been at the Bahama Islands and Carried off the Governor, and the Stores &c. I hope the...
Date: 14 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
On the 15 Instant, I was honourd with the Receipt of Your Lordships dispatch No 2, of the 1st of January, forwarded to Me, from New York by Governor Tryon. In answer to which, I have already informed Your Lordship, in my former letters, of the Arrival of His Majestys Sloop of War the Nautilus; and likewise of the Galatea, Captain [Thomas] Jordan Commander. And these two, of His Majestys Ships of...
Date: 19 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
My Lord I was disappointed, of any oportunity of Conveyance, for any letters either to Your Lordship, or to General [Thomas] Gage, until the 3d of September; I had agreed with the Master of a Vessel to go to Boston, for fifty pounds, to carry my Despatchess and some live Stock to General Gage.
And just as the Sloop was getting under Sail, the Mate of the Vessel, I suppose having been...
Date: 13 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Captain Tollemache of the Scorpion Man of War, having very fortunately for us, touched at Bermuda, and came into St Georges Harbour, at the East end of tl;iese Islands, with a large transport with Him both intended for South Carolina.
Some days after his arrival, an american armed vessel, came to anchor at the west End far out of His reach or access, and spoke with the land we are informed, and...
Date: 16 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Two Brigs, Rebel privateers, from South Carolina, have visited the West end of these Islands. Took in some Water, Spiked up one Gun, and threw one piece of Cannon, into the Sea from a little fort at the Extreem West End of these Islands, and carried off either four or Eight, pieces of Cannon private property. The Nautilus Sailed towards the West End, but could not over take them, as the...
Date: 20 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
The family of the Goodrich's, of portsmouth in Virginia, were imployed and Servisable, to my Lord Dunmore, before He left Virginia, but the Father and three Sons were all taken in different Vessels, the latter End of the Year 1776. William, and Bartlet Goodrich, on their Return from hence, to my Lord Dunmore, and to New York in Different Vessels with my Dispatches, and Captain Collins's1 ...
Date: 25 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11
On the 14th Instant, I had the honor to receive, Your Lordships Circular letters, of October the 3d. and November the 5th.
And having Received my Lord Viscount Howe, and Sr Williams joint letter last Year. not to Grant licence, for either Rum or Molasses, I have not given any licence Since, for those Articles.
Neither did any more than three or four...
Date: 19 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11