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October 1776
Friday 4
St John's Inlet No 70.00 Wt distance 8 Leagues
at 5 AM out 3d reefs of the Topsails at 6 the Raven in Sight at 7 Wore Ship Sounded in 17 ffm at 9 Out reefs Topsails and set Top gallt sails at 10 Wore Ship the Raven in Sight
Mode breezes and Cloudy Wear at 8 PM Lost sight of the Raven Sounded in the Night from 15 to 13 ffm
Saturday 5th
at 6 AM Saw the Land from SW...
Date: 5 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Please to Supply His Majesty's Armed Ship Cherokee under my Command with the Undermentioned Species of Provissions Viz
Bread
One Thousand pound
Rum
Fifty Gallons
Beef
Fifty
Tierces
Pork
Ninety
Butter
One Hundred & forty pounds
I am Sir [&c.]
Date: 23 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I do hereby certify, that at the desire of his Excellency Lord William Campbell, I detained the bearer hereof, Mr. [Matthew] Floyd, two nights, on board his Majesty's ship Cherokee, under my command; as the circumstance of his coming on board with the messenger of the Council of Safety, made it highly suspicious, that he did not come with any message from his Majesty's faithful and loyal subjects...
Date: 7 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Having the honor to command one of His Britannic Majesty's Ships in this River, and having information, that your Excellency has received into your Government, a Body of Armed Men, Enemies to my Sovereign, and that you have suffered them, from the Spanish Territory, to commit depradations on this River, by forcibly seizing upon the Vessels, Property, and Persons of British Subjects, in violation...
Date: 14 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11
In my Letter of this day's date I had the honor to acquaint your Excellency with my sentiments, respecting the insults, that have been lately offered to His Britannic Majesty's Subjects in the River Mississippi, by a body of Armed Men, Enemies to the King, my Master, & under your Protection: I therefore conceived, that you had hostile intentions towards my Nation, & thought it proper to...
Date: 14 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11
I am honored with your Excellency's Letter of yesterday's date, by which you express your surprise, at my conceiving you to be in a state of War against my Sovereign, I think, I have sufficiently explained my reasons in my letter of the 14th. which I was authorized to do, from knowing your Excellency's sentiments, respecting the privileges of the River Mississippi, fully explained in...
Date: 15 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11
I have received by the hands of an officer your letter of the 18th. Instant, in return to mine of the 15th. and am sorry to say, that your answer is little satisfactory in so much that you have granted only part of my demand, in consenting to give up part of the British Property, and you have given no answer to my proposal of the other part of the property, being deposited...
Date: 20 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11
Tho' I have not succeeded in the application's I have already made to your Excellency, in favor of His Britannic Majesty's Loyal Subjects, now in your province, I cannot help mentioning a circumstance, that has come to my knowledge and is of a very serious nature. I am well informed, that several British Seamen have lately been made Prisoners in the Town of New-Orleans, carried off in chains,...
Date: 29 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11