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Whereas I have Intelligence that 18 Carriage Guns and 200 Men, a Sloop of 14 Guns, and four or five other Vessels are fitted out at Providence to attack the King's Ships, and that from New London and Dartmouth Vessels are also fitted out with the same Design, and whereas fifteen Transports with Troops are daily expected to arrive from England, who not expecting Rebels or Pirates on the Coast, may...
Date: 27 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
You are hereby required and directed to repair with His Majesty's Ship under your command into Homoze where we have ordered her to be cleaned graved and refitted, stored for foreign Service, and her Provisions completed to six Months of all Species except Beer, of which she is to have as much as she can conveniently stow; and to be supplied with Wine or Spirits in lieu of the remainder.
Applying...
Date: 8 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
You are hereby required and directed to take under your command His Majesty's Storeship the Elephant (Lieut Bechinoe who commands her being directed to obey your Orders) & under your Convoy the several Store Ships & Victuallers mentioned on the otherside hereof & also any Navy Transports with Recruits for the Army under the Command of General Sir Wm Howe which may be ready to...
Date: 23 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7