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My Lords Commrs of the Admty having received a Petition from Iver McMillan, first Mate of the Friendship Transport, giving an account that being a Prisoner at Boston he with Jas Parks late Mate of the Lord Howe Transport & another Person got on board the Mermaid Sloop in the Service of the Provincials, & carried her to St Johns in Newfoundland, where she was sold by your Order at a Public...
Date: 18 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having received a Petition from George Murray and others, late belonging to the Nancy of London John Cowen Master, representing that she being taken by an American Privatier, they were put on board the Molly, which had also been taken by her, and which they recovered, and carried her to Trinity in Newfoundland but soon after His Majesty's Sloop Penguin...
Date: 18 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Whereas we intend that His Majesty's Ships and Vessels named in the List hereunto annex'd (together with the Surprize already gone to Newfoundland, and the Sloops and armed Vessels which you left there last Year) shall be employed under your command in protecting the Fisheries of His Majesty's Subjects at, and about that Island, during the present Year, and have directed their Commanders to...
Date: 20 February 1777
Volume: Volume 8
My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having received a Letter from Messrs Isa and Ben Lesters Merchants at Poole, transmitting an Affidavit made by the Master of their Ship Margaret taken by an American Privateer and praying for the reasons set forth in the Letter and Affidavit, that protection may be granted to their Trade, particularly in the Harbour at Trinity, at Newfoundland I am...
Date: 10 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
You are hereby required and directed to ,order the Captains and Commanders of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels under your command to endeavour to procure, at Newfoundland, all the Seamen they may be able, so soon as the Fishing Season shall be over, and to bear such Seamen as Supernumeraries for Wages and Victuals, 'til their arrival in England, where they are to dispose of them as the Admiral or...
Date: 20 March 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Whereas you were directed by our Order o{ the 20th February last to take under your command the Kings Ships & Vessels intended to be employed this Year for the protection of the Fisheries at & about Newfoundland & of the Fishing Ships & Vessels belonging to His Majestys Subjects to & from that Island; You are hereby required & directed to put to Sea the very first...
Date: 8 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
I hope you will excuse the liberty I take in informing you that I have been for some time past very much troubled with an inveterate Scurvy and as from the nature of this Country and the impossibility of my procuring those refreshments from which I could expect Relief, I find myself growing daily so weak that I am at present almost incapable of doing my Duty; this together with the weakness the...
Date: 3 September 1777
Volume: Volume 9