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Sir: If at any time in the Course of our Cruizing off this place, we should happen to lose Company, or that I should think it necessary to proceed to any other place with the Ship under my Command, It is my desire and direction to you, that you remain with His Majesty's Ship the Liverpool on this Station, and Cruize in the manner You shall think best to annoy the enemy and intercept the Trade of...
Date: 15 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
The reason you have not heard from me Sooner, is owing to our having taken the resolution of moving the Fleet from Norfolk to this place, which was effected on the 27th I believe, without the loss of a Single vessel, except three or four that were obliged to be destroyed for want of materials to bring them round. For a description of the Island, the Harbour, and what we are about, I refer you...
Date: 30 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I am not a little uneasy at not hearing from you; and yet as you have no vessel with you, I don't well know how I should; nor has it been in my power to send any thing to you; so continually have we been employed.
Mr Goold the Purser of the Liverpool had sailed in search of you, before the Spanish Snow arrived; and after cruizing, as he tells me, for three or four days off Cape Henlopen and Cape...
Date: 10 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Septr 1776
Monday 30
Going into Halifax Harbour
at 2 AM fird 2 guns for signal for anchorg 8 Do anchd in [lo] fm abreast of the Town ー anchd here 2 of the Prizes, found riding here H. M Ship Rainbow, Lark, and Viper, at 10, Arrd the other 2 Prizes, one of which ran a ground, sent the Pinnace to assist her, getting down F topmast, being sprung.
First part strong Gales, and Squally, middle and...
Date: 30 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
You are hereby required & directed after having received on board the Ship you command Major Genl Sr Henry Clinton with his Suite, Servants & Baggage to put to Sea with the first opportunity of Wind & Weather & make the best of your way with them to New York; victualling the said Persons during their continuance on board as the Ships Company
Upon your arrival at New York you are...
Date: 19 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
By Captain Tollemache, who sailed from hence in his Majesty's Sloop Scorpion the latter end of August, I sent Orders to Captain Thornborough of the Tamer to repair immediately to North Carolina, and having assisted Captain [Francis] Parry of the Cruizer to dismantle Fort Johnston and put the Ordnance Stores on board a Transport, which Captain Tollemache carried with him for that purpose, to come...
Date: 30 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Whereas the service on which the Squadron under my command is employed, requires not only the utmost exertion against the enemy, but also the strictest vigilence and alertness to evade any attempts that may be made in the night time to destroy His Majesty's Ships by fire Rafts &ca and although I have the fulest confidence in the conduct and zeal of the officers serving with me, yet I think it...
Date: 8 May 1776
Volume: Volume 4
I wish for time to consult my instructions as well as to take the opinion of some of the Officers with me, upon the Subject of your letter; an answer to which I shall send you by ten o Clock to morrow morning. You may be assured it will not be my inclination to prevent your obtaining any supplies but such as by express orders I may find it my Duty to withhold. I am Sir, [&c.]
Date: 24 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Sir I am too much of an Officer to wish you to do anything Incompatible with the Honor of your Commission, or to recede My self from any point which I conceive to be my duty. Under the force of reciprocal feelings consequences may ensue which each of us perhaps may wish fo avoid. Our Centinels have rec'd orders by no means to offer insult or injury to your Boats or People or to any others that...
Date: 30 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
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You are hereby ordered and directed to take the four Vessels named in the Margin1 under your Convoy, and to proceed with them down the River Delaware the first favorable opportunity, giving them all possible Assistance in passing the Obstructions in the River, as well as protection from the Enemy in case of their meeting with any accident by the way. When you shall...
Date: 20 January 1778
Volume: Volume 11