Volume 1
Guide to the materials for American history, to 1783, in the Public Record Office of Great Britain / by Charles M. Andrews.
- Charles McLean Andrews
- Date:
- 1912-1914
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Guide to the materials for American history, to 1783, in the Public Record Office of Great Britain / by Charles M. Andrews. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Circular of Committee of Correspondence. Address of Parliament to king. Oct. 26. List of American prisoners taken near Montreal, Sept. 25, put on board ship Adamant, and papers regarding their imprisonment in Pendennis Castle. Another address from City of London, with king’s answer. Mar. 22, 1776. Letter from Maj. Debbieg. Apr. 16. Regarding brig Elizabeth, May 28, and other American vessels seized, June. Sir Guy Carleton made K. B. July 4. Id., Sir William Howe. Oct. Letter from lord advocate of Scotland to Lord George Germain regarding American affairs. Oct. 18. Case of British ship Spiers, seized by Americans, escaped, carrying off Lieut. Hale from Rhode Island. Oct. Regarding Carleton’s naval fight on Lake Champlain. Oct. Case of Ebenezer Platt of Georgia. Dec. 10. Henry Pelham’s receipted bills, Boston. 1768-1776. 12. Minute of cabinet meeting at Lord George Germain’s house. Jan. I0, 1777. Regarding hiring of 4000 Hessians. Ebenezer Platt’s case. Cabinet meeting. Feb. 25. Regarding American prisoners. July 3. Saunders to Petrie regarding American [assurance ?] policies. July 18. Two letters regarding American sympathizers at Bristol. Letter from Maj. Debbieg. Sept. 5. Various circulars to ministers and consuls on alliance between France and the United States and other subjects. 1778. Regarding Ranger, John Paul Jones, at Whitehaven, seven papers. Apr. 23. Cabinet meeting. June 18. Secretary’s despatches regarding prisoners, etc. 13. Secretary’s despatches, ships seized, etc. 1779- Addresses from Liverpool and Bristol merchant adventurers. Id., East India Company, Lancaster, and other places. Id., Trinity House, regarding persons engaged in treasonable cor¬ respondence, Dover to France (many papers). Case of Count Welderen’s ship Maria Christiana, condemned in Admiralty. St. Christopher, Nov. 14, 1778 (many papers in this and previous bundles). 14. Regarding sending supplies from Great Britain and Ireland to the enemy. Losses in fees to under-secretary of state, northern department, on separation of colonial department in 1768. Budget for 1780, including cost of colonial establishments. Regarding Rodney’s victory in the West Indies. Copies and extracts of letters from Gov. Burt. Regarding Clinton’s letter to Lord George Germain, denying authen¬ ticity.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31359759_0001_0067.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
