Located AtStaffordshire Record Office
LevelItem
Doc Ref NoD(W)1778/II/1360
TitleGovernor Josiah Martin to Lord Dartmouth, Fort Johnston, North Carolina, (number 35)
Date6 Jul 1775
DescriptionReceipt of dispatches by Captain Tollemache, disadvantages experienced by not being able to communicate with General Gage, no communication by sea yet established by the Admiral or General and all intercourse by land is cut off by the vigilance of the Committees, "a servant of mine, whom I dispatched from hence to the post office at Wilmington for my letters three days ago, was stopped by the Committee at the little town of Brunswick, who obliged him to swear, that he had no letters for me, before he was suffered to proceed", regrets that his Lordship's dispatches had been previously opened by the mob at Charlestown as certified by Mr Roupell, Deputy Post Master General there, enumerates several letters by the "Sandwich" packet that his Lordship may judge whether any have been suppressed, introduces Mr Schaw and refers his Lordship to him for information of this province, thinks recent orders respecting the authority of Major and Brigadier-Generals will bear somewhat hard upon himself, though he will not fail to have them fulfilled
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