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I have had the Honour to receive your Lordship's Letter of the 1st of May and see with Concern the unwarrantable and lawless proceedings of the people of Virginia, and the Danger your Lordship is exposed to by endeavouring to support his Majesty's just Authority amongst an ungrateful and rebellious people.
The action of the 19th of April, of which I inclose your Lordship a printed Account, has...
Date: 20 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Lord, I cannot express My Astonishment upon reading Your Lordships Letter July 17th representing the behaviour of Captain [John] Macartney of His Majesty's Ship Mercury, whom I had considered and sent to your Assistance As an experienced Officer, extremely diligent and punctual and without the least doubt of his Conduct in all respects meriting Your Lordships particular Acknowledgements: It...
Date: 7 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
From the innumerable marks of your Lordships friendships, and your great politeness to me during my most agreeable stay in Virginia, makes me flatter myself a line from one (whose gratitude for these favours, cannot be express'd) will not be disagreeable, which I reflect on the ma[n]y happy days we pass'd under your Lordships very hospitable roof, and the present melancholy objects before our...
Date: 9 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I wrote to your Lordship the 28th of July by the Brig John, Hugh Kennedy Master, and am now to acknowledge the Honor of your Letter July 20th. I am entirely of your Lordships Opinion that the Ships stationed at Virginia cannot prevent the Rebels receiving supplies of Ammunition and Smuggled Goods; there is no Station that has a number of Ships and Vessels equal to that duty, and this deficiency...
Date: 9 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Lord Your Lordship's dispatches of the 1st & 15th of May have been received and laid before the King, and it is with the greatest Satisfaction that I transmit to your Lordship His Majesty's Approbation of the Spirit and Fortitude with which you resisted the Attempts to compell you by force to restore the Gunpowder which your Lordship so prudently and properly had put on board the Fowey....
Date: 5 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Lord, This Dispatch accompanies a triplicate of my Letter to your Lordship of the 5th instant, and is intrusted to the Care of Capt Dodsworth who has on board 3000 Stand of Arms with two hundred rounds of Powder & Ball for each Musket, and 4 light Brass 3 pounders to be delivered to your Lordships order.
Captain Dodsworth has my Instructions that he do immediately upon his arrival on the...
Date: 12 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My Lord The hope you held out to us in your letter of the 1st of May that with a supply of arms and ammunition you should be able to collect from amongst Negroes Indians and other persons a force sufficient if not to subdue Rebellion at least to defend Governt ー was very encouraging; but as I find by your letters delivered to me by Lt [Henry] Collins that you have been obliged from the violence...
Date: 2 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Information of another Spy given 11th of May 1776
My Lord
Since I had the honour of waiting on your Excellency upon friday evening last [May 3], I have received the following interesting Intelligence ー That the Shirt Men are and have been busie some time past in Constructing Boats every ways fitt and proper to Attack and destroy the Fleet lying off Norfolk ー That the whole or greatest part of...
Date: 11 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
27th June 1776 On Board His Majestys Ship the Roebuck. The petition of of Catherine Sproule, Widow of the deceas'd Andrew Sproule [Sprowle] Esqr Gosport in Virginia. ー2
That whereas the memorialist did upon the 17th Currt apply to Andrew Snap[e] Hammond Commander of his Majestys Ship the Roebuck for a flag of truce to go see her son John Hunter Jnr then and now prisoner at Hallifax...
Date: 27 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
After waiting the whole day with the fulest expectations of seeing the Transports get under way to join me, and grudging every hour that was lost of so fair and fresh a wind. Mr [John] Orde is just returned to me, & informs me that the Anna will not be ready until tomorrow evening. I confess this disapointment and delay is more than I have temper and patience to bear; therefore cannot help...
Date: 18 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
Lord George Germain being gone into the Country for a few days, it is my Duty to send Your Lordship the inclosed Copy of His Lordship's Letter of 22d May,2 which will inform Your Lordship of the Loss of your Dispatches by the Duke of Cumberland Packet; and I have the honor to acquaint you, that this Packet is principally dispatched for the Purpose of affording Your Lordship, and His...
Date: 18 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
My Lord, I have had the honor to receive your Lordships letter of the 22d August, and another without date by Mr [John] Connolly, and am sorry to find you are still in so disagreeable a Situation, and heartily wish it was in my Power to give you that assistance you want. Your Lordship is the best Judge, as to the probability you may have of raising Provincial Troops; should you have such athing...
Date: 10 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Should any of His Majesty's Ships be stationed in these parts, and Your Lordship by any means have access to them in their passage hither; could Your Lordship desire them to speak to the Man of War in Charlestown Harbour, to get the Mail from England, which brought the Letters belonging to this Province, the beginning of August, and deliver them here, it would be doing us great Service and...
Date: 15 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I last night secured a Man that was coming Passenger from the Eastern Shore, who appears to me to be a great Rascal, two of my Men know him well, and are ready to make Oath that they saw him near York, and at Hampton, raising men to fight against the King, he was always in Company with one Trotter, who was present at Robbing your Palace of the Arms. I have therefore Prest him to raise men for the...
Date: 18 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
(Copy) To His Excellency the Right Honble John Earl of Dunmore, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the Colony and Dominion of Virginia.
We his Majesty's faithful Subjects the Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council of the Borough of Norfolk in Common Hall assembled, beg leave to represent to your Lordship, that on this day a Party of Men under the command of Captain [Matthew] Squire of the...
Date: 30 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
My Lord, It is with great Satisfaction that I avail myself of the first Opportunity that has occurred since I entered upon Office to express to your Lordship The King's Approbation of the great Zeal your Lordship has manifested for His Service, & of the Fortitude with which you have not only resisted but repelled the Insults which had been offered to You by His Majesty's Rebellious Subjects...
Date: 23 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
My Lord I had the honour to receive your Letter of the 9th April by the Brigantine Rebecca, John Brown Master; accompanied by another Letter for Sir Ralph Payne, Governor of this Island who being absent from his Government, I opened the same agreeable to your desire In answer, I beg to acquaint your Lordship; that the Provisions Ordered by Mr Jameson (as they are said to be for the use of...
Date: 13 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5