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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-07-22 ADM/A/1821/179
We direct you to pay Mrs Mary Symonds, Widow of Captain Thomas, late Commander of the HAMPSHIRE, the sum of two hundred pounds, out of the money in the hands of the Navy Treasurer for the tenth of Prizes taken from the Enemy, in consideration of the particular good service performed by her husband, …
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-10-11 ADM/A/1812/140
The Navy Board has sought advice concerning the payment of the Commanders of Fireships and Hospital Ships and the payment of Masters and Surgeons and the bounty to be paid to the widows and orphans of Officers killed in action and including Pilots.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-09-15 ADM/A/1811/158
Whereas John Rixwell was appointed Master Caulker of the West India Squadron, and his widow Rebecca Rixwell having petitioned this Board for his Wages for the same, we direct you to cause such an allowance to be made him for the time he served in the said employment, as by our letter to you dated 19…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-03-09 ADM/A/1773/39
The certificate under the hands of the late Captain of the [SOVEREIGN] and Captain Warren, late Commander of the HOPEWELL fireship, states that John Sinclair, Master of the fireship, was after the accidental burning of her in the Downes last summer, ordered on board the DEPTFORD and was killed in an…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-06-13 ADM/A/1796/87
A Petition by Sarah Hunter, Widow, concerning her Son, Thomas Hunter, who served on the hired Ship PRINCESS ANNE, then on ST MICHAEL, but was made Run on the former Ship and did not receive his Wages for his service on her.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-18 ADM/A/1780/133
Your Report to this Board of December 22nd last concerning the Petition of Blanch Colvin, Widow of James Colvin, informed us that the Petitioner's husband, a Quarter Gunner of the TIGER PRIZE, voluntarily went onshore in the Expedition against St Christopher's and received a facial woun…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-06-28 ADM/A/1820/235
1. The widows of seamen lost in the ENGLAND FRIGATE, Hired Ship, sunk in an engagement with the enemy, are petitioning for their husbands' bounty money. Are sending a copy of the court martial findings and an affidavit concerning the ship's loss.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1697-05-08 ADM/A/1842/389
It appears to us by a Certificate in the hands of the Captain and Officers of the HAMPSHIRE that William Thomas died in the action of extinguishing a fire on board her.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-07-29 ADM/A/1797/211
Requiring a Pension to be settled on Anne Skelton, the Widow of Captain Charles Skelton late Commander of the CORONATION. Further details are given.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-02-01 ADM/A/1781/3
Application has been made by Mary Swarton, widow of John Swarton a Midshipman in the PRINCESS ANN hired ship, praying their Majesties' Bounty for the loss of her husband, alleged to have been in command on shore at Guadalupe in the West Indies when killed by enemy shot.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) ADM/A/1822/302
Petition of Elizabeth Gibson widow of Nicholas Gibson, Butcher on board the FALCON under Captain Bryant, late Commander. The ship was taken by the French in the West Indies soon after which Nicholas Gibson died leaving his widow in very poor circumstances with the charge of two children.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-08-07 ADM/A/1822/339
Your report of 17 July 1695 on the petition of Mary Kercher, Widow of Captain Thomas Kercher, late Commander of the RUPERT, advised us that he entered men for the ship on 24 February 1693 and continued in that service until she was launched on 4 April 1693.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1695-08-07 ADM/A/1822/373
We have received a petition from the widow of Joseph Tippior, setting forth that her husband was in a merchant ship in the West Indies, the KATHERINE, Robert Scottin, Master, hired by the Governors of Barbados for an expedition against Martinique.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-02-06 ADM/A/1781/40
You are directed to have allowances made of their Majesties' Bounty to the widows and relatives of men who were slain in the HAPPY RETURN in a fight with the French, notwithstanding that their Captain has not signed their certificate.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-08-05 ADM/A/1786/258
Cause Ellen Wrenn widow of Captain Ralph Wrenn, slain in a fight, to be paid a sum of money according to the rules of the Navy.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-08-03 ADM/A/1786/25
Enclose petition, supporting the wife of Captain George Aylmer, slain in a fight at sea. Desire and direct her Widows Pension to be paid.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1693-02-21 ADM/A/1792/212
Edward Lassells in Virginia has recommended using Cypres trees for masts in HM Ships.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-01-19 ADM/A/1803/284
Do not think fit to entertain that seamen, of ships repairing at Chatham, be entered as Yard Rigger, but keep their ships companies together.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-09 ADM/A/1780/51
The Victualling Commissioners have informed us that they cannot supply their Majesties' Ships of the third Rate now fitting out at Portsmouth with their whole quantity of victuals there as required .…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-01-02 ADM/A/1771/3
Re: your recent representation of the failures of several Commanders (whose Ships were recently paid off) to follow Admiralty instructions.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1694-11-28 ADM/A/1813/293
Captain St Lo has again complained that the Officers Servants are generally so small that they are hardly able to carry a platter of provisions.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-06-25 ADM/A/1784/253
Urgently requiring the Commissioners for Victualling to be instructed to reach agreement with the Commissioners for Transportation, or the Masters of the Transport ships, for feeding the Watermen manning the Shallops round to Portsmouth
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1691-03-13 ADM/A/1773/63
The Company of Watermen have advised us that several Watermen named herein, having received Impress Money to appear at the hall did not do so but entered themselves as Volunteers on board their Majesties ships.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript) 1692-03-18 ADM/A/1782/166
Officers in the Fleet have notified the Admiralty that certain Seamen and Watermen are claiming Protection from being pressed. The Admiralty asks for a list of all persons who have been granted Protection showing the date granted and the duration of Protection.…