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Whereas his majesty's armed Schooner Margueritta was on the 11th of last month attacked and taken by rebels in a sloop & schooner from Mechias, after an obstinate engagement in which the commander of the said schooner Margueritta & one Marine were Killed and four wounded, and the rest being made Prisoners were carried by the Rebels into the Country; and whereas I have undoubted...
Date: 18 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I am commanded by the Admiral to acquaint you that he is displeased with your sending to Boston the Schooner Fisher, because all her papers & the Masters whole proceedings demonstrate that he was upon a trading voyage to procure fresh stock and other necessaries of life for this town, an employment that must be encouraged & assisted by all means in our power; and it is the admirals...
Date: 24 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Vice Admiral Samuel Graves to Lieutenant John Graves, H.M. Schooner St. Lawrence, September 15, 1775
You are hereby required and directed to proceed in his Majestys Schooner under your Command to St Augustine in East Florida, and on your Arrival acquaint his Excellency Governor [Patrick] Tonyn that you are come to co-operate with him on the Kings Service, to assist his Majestys Land Forces to secure and defend that Garrison against the Rebels, to protect Trade carried on according to Act of...
Date: 15 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
You are hereby required and directed to proceed immediately in his Majs Sloop under your Command2 and cruize from Cape Anne to Cape Cod, keeping within the Bay of Boston as much as possible, to assist and protect the Transports and Artillery Vessels expected to arrive, whose Safety is of the utmost Consequence at this juncture to his Majesty's Service, and you are to take care to see...
Date: 18 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Sir  The Accounts sent by Sir James Wright made us come to the immediate determination, that the St Lawrence should proceed without delay to St Augustine to refit, in order to repair with all speed to the Assistance of Lord William Campbell and His Majesty's Ships in the Harbour of Charlestown. In a few hours after the receipt of Sir James Wrights Accounts I had intelligence from St Mary that a...
Date: 8 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3