Located AtStaffordshire Record Office
LevelItem
Doc Ref NoD(W)1778/II/1566
TitleCaptain Hugh Bromedge to Lord Dartmouth
Date24 Oct 1775
Description"Savage" Sloop, St John's, New Foundland, writes by request of Governor Montfort Browne of the Bahamas to announce that he left him at Pensacola on the 20 Jun last on his way to Brown's Clifts on the banks of the Mississippi, expects his Excellency will inform him of the new passage over the Grand Bahama Banks and the short cut through the East Florida Keys, which is a very short passage from Providence to Pensacola, also of the discovery made by Bromedge of wood for sheathing boards for ships which may be stationed in the Bahamas and Pensacola, gave orders for the "St John" to go to Pensacola to take back Governor Browne to Providence, sails tomorrow to convoy a transport with volunteers etc, for Admiral Graves's squadron and General Gage's regiments at Boston
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