Naval Documents of The American Revolution, Volume 1 ... - Ibiblio
Naval Documents of The American Revolution, Volume 1 ... - Ibiblio
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1202 AMERICAN THEATRE<br />
guard them from all Attempts <strong>of</strong> Pyrates, and to give every Assistance in your<br />
power in order that they may return time enough to make another Trip before<br />
the Winter Season is too far advanced. And whereas I have ordered Captain<br />
[Edward] LeCras to send the Tartar to Annapolis to take such Vessels as may<br />
be ready and proceed with them to Boston you are not to pay any further regard<br />
to the Annapolis Division after you have seen them safe there, but bestow your<br />
whole Care upon those intended for Windsor and Cumberland. And to enable<br />
you the better to perform this Service, you are hereby required and directed if<br />
you meet the Halifax to take her under your Command, If not I shall send her<br />
after you the moment she arrives.<br />
You are to procure every Information you can <strong>of</strong> the Rebels Designs and to<br />
do your utmost to defeat them, and you are hereby required and directed to take,<br />
burn, sink and destroy all and every Vessel <strong>of</strong> whatever Construction you meet<br />
armed, or evidently intended to be used against his Majesty's Forces by Sea or<br />
Land, or against any <strong>of</strong> the Colonies in obedience to his Majesty's just Authority.<br />
In case <strong>of</strong> your meeting the Hope or St Lawrence Schooners, who also have<br />
Convoys, you will give their Commanders such Orders as you think best for the<br />
Service, but I would have the Hope retux5 to Boston immediately.<br />
You are to continue with the Windsor and Cumberland Divisions <strong>of</strong> Transports<br />
until they are laden, and then return with them to Boston.<br />
Given under. my Hand on Board his Majs. Ship Preston at Boston the 22d.<br />
August 1775.<br />
Sam Graves<br />
1. Graves's Conduct, Appendix, 478-480, MassHS Transcript.<br />
VICE ADMIRAL SAMUEL GRAVES TO CAPTAIN EDWARD THORNBROUGH, R.N.,<br />
HIS MAJESTY'S SLOOP Tamer<br />
Whereas I have sent the Honble Capt [John] Tollemache in his Majesty's<br />
Sloop Scorpion to relieve the Cruizer and to be stationed until1 further Orders at<br />
North Carolina, and whereas in the present weak State <strong>of</strong> his Majs. Sloops Tamer<br />
and Cruizer it is absolutely necessary they should come where they can be repaired<br />
and refitted with dispatch.<br />
You are therefore directed and required to compleat your Provisions to four<br />
months as soon as possible and taking the Scorpion with you proceed to Cape<br />
Fear, where you will find the Palliser Transport Walter Waters Master. You are<br />
to give all the Assistance in your Power to the Service she is upon, And when she is<br />
ready to depart (and no time should be lost) You are to take her under your<br />
Convoy, and, ordering Captain [Francis] Parry <strong>of</strong> his Majs Sloop Cruizer to<br />
accompany you, repair with all convenient haste to Boston. In your way hither<br />
you are to seize all Vessels with Provisions, and as the Garrison at Boston is in great<br />
want <strong>of</strong> Rice, you are to bring a Vessel laden with that Article if one can be met<br />
with, whether she is navigating according to Law [or not]
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