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I am just informed by his Excellency Lord Dunmore, that Mr. Andrew Sprowle has received a summons to attend a Committee in Norfolk, on Thursday next. The accusations alleged against him are of a most extraordinary nature. In the summons he is charged with having harboured His Majesty's troops in the stores at Gosport. I am not surprised that a summons grounded upon such accusations should be...
Date: 12 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir, I was favoured with your letter of yesterday's date, and it gives me much real satisfaction to find that the inhabitants of Norfolk are so earnestly desirous of living in harmony with his Majesty's servants. You are pleased to assure me that no violence or insult shall be offered to the person of Mr. Sprowle; and upon the faith of your letter I have requested him to attend the Committee to-...
Date: 15 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I am much obliged to you for your polite favour, which inclosed some strictures by the corporation of Norfolk, upon my first letter to you. I must beg you will be pleased to publish the letters which have passed between us in the Virginia News-papers, that a candid public may judge of the motives which actuate my conduct.
When I first wrote to you, it was not my intention to draw on a political...
Date: 28 August 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Captain Feilding [Charles Fielding] onboard His Majesty's Frigate the Diamond, with His Majesty's Frigate the Ambuscade under my Command, being at Anchor in Martha's Vineyard Sound, lying there to inter.cept the Rebel Privateers from getting out from Rhode Island; On Saturday 7th Instant Captain Feilding, the Senior Officer, sent his Barge onshore to Nashawn Island with a Flag of Truce, intending...
Date: 12 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Sir Agreable to your Order of the 13th of August founded upon a Complaint against me on the 17th of July last by His Excellency Lord Dunmore Governor of Virginia, I was Superceeded in my Command of His Majesty's Ship Mercury by the first Lieutenant of His Majesty's Ship Preston Mr Alexander Graeme at Norfolk in Virginia on the 8th of September and immediately put under an Arrest; I must therefore...
Date: 1 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Sir I am honoured with your favor of the 1st instt inclosing A Copy of your Letter to Captain Montagu on his arrival at Boston from Virginia and of his answer; of your Letter to Lord Dunmore on the receipt of his accusation against me, and of his Lordships answer, and I cannot enough express my acknowledgements of your generous open and candid proceedings on this affair. I beg leave to lay before...
Date: 7 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Please to acquaint the Rt Honbl the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that agreeable to Admiral Graves's Order, 2 and my own request, I am come to England, to vindicate my Conduct, censured by Lord Dunmore, Governor of Virginia, during my Commanding the Mercury, and Senior Captain upon that Station. ー Therefore, I must beg their Lordships will be pleased to give me leave to come...
Date: 25 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
June 1777
Monday 2d
halfway Rock NNE 5 or 6 Leagues
at 5 modt and hazey saw a sail to the Etward at 6 hoisted the Barge out and sent her manned and Armed wh the Lieut on board a sloop ½ past she got on board at 8 Halfway Rock NBW 2 Leagues at 9 up fore sails and hove too at 10 filled and made sail saw 3 sail at 11 halfway Rock NNE 4 or 5 Leags found The above Sloop to be from Cammden, in...
Date: 2 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
June 1777
Wednesday 4th
Sequine Island NEBE½E 4 Leagues
½ past 12 do wr taken aback filled and stood up at 3 saw land on the larboard Bow TKd ship at 4 saw a sail to NW made sail out 2 Reefs top sails and set top gallt sails gave Chace set steering sails at 7 Sequine Island NBW½ W 7 or 8 Leagues Dist at 8 modt and Clear still in Chace at 9 got 4 12 pounders from forward Aft to bring The ship...
Date: 4 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
June 1777
Thursday 5th
Sequin Island NW¼ N 16 Leagues
at 1 TKd ship at 2 modt and Clear fresh breezes and Cloudy at 4 TKd ship set main sail at 2 [5] out reefs top sails saw the land on the Lee Bow Dist 8 or 9 Leagues at 9 fresh breezes and fair ½ past TKd ship read the Articles of War Relative to the treatment of Prisoners taken on board off Prizes ½ past 9 saw a sail to the Etward: Divided...
Date: 5 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9
July 1777
Wednesdy 16
Swan Island N½E 3 or 4 Miles
Fresh gales and hazey wr weighed and came to sail at 3 [P.M.] soermost seal Islands North 2 or 3 Leagues at 8 altered the Course at 12 saw a sail fired a six Pounder brot her too up Courses hoisted out the Cutter and sent on Board of her and found her to be the Magretta Schooner Prize of the Washington Privateer taken by her between Canso and...
Date: 17 July 1777
Volume: Volume 9
Septr 1777
Tuesday 2d
Sambro Lighthouse No 38°. .0"Et Dist 39 Leagues
at 12 [PM] saw a sail to the NW set main sail and Chace set all sails chace a ship 3 Miles Dist
Wednesday 3
½ pt 12 [AM] Chacebrot too up Courses & in T Glt Sls no sail in sight from the mn top mt head out Cutter boarded her found her to be the Restoreation belonging to Bristol taken by the Oliver Cromwell Rebel...
Date: 3 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9
—— Conway,2 Master of a Rebel Privateer Schooner of forty Tons, six Guns (two pounders) And a Number of Swivels with thirty five Men,3 came into Yarmouth near Cape Sable about six Weeks ago, killed one Sheep and pulled the Inside of a House down. A party of Men from the same Schooner about the 8th. of February last, marched down to Cape Vaisseau under Arms, in...
Date: 13 March 1778
Volume: Volume 11