Warfare in North America, c. 1756-1815 | British Perspectives
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Title:
PRO 30/55/022/093 - Printed Document
Date:
1780
Language:
English
Date from:
1780-04-01
Date to:
1780-04-01
Section:
2 : PRO 30/55 - British Army Headquarters Papers
TNA Shelfmark:
PRO 30/55/022/093
Full Description:
George Leonard, late of Boston, New England to Germain. Memorial. 'That there having been at New York and Rhode Island great numbers of Loyalists, who have left their all to follow the royal standard'... He lists details of 10 vessels he has been instructed to fit out and the services they had performed. From the frigate 'Restoration' (150 men) to the transport schooner 'Sally' (of 9 men). One of his principal vessels was employed with HMS Thames in blocking up the harbour of New London by Sir George Collier. Cutting off the shelter of Martha’s Vineyard Sound from rebel coaters, he took a fully laden sloop of arms and military stores, which was bound to Boston to replace those that were entirely destroyed by Collier at Penoboscot. These exertions kept a great part of the eastern coast in continual alarm, preventing large supplies from joining Washington’s army, and were deemed so formidable to the rebels, as to induce the Assembly of Massachusetts Bay to vote £50,000 for an expedition to put a stop to them. Adds a proposal for reviving the Association of the Loyalists in North America.
TNA Link:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16305498
Format:
Printed
DOI:
10.1163/37612_WNA_PRO_PRO_30_55_22_93