St. James 24th June 1775
Extract of a Letter from the Lords
Lieutenant
of Ireland to the Earl of Rochford dated
Dublin
Castle 16th June 1775
I must observe to your Lordship that His Majesty' s PIeasure with respect to the different Regiments which upon the Changes are to be placed on the other [sic] upon this Establishment hath not yet been signified to me, I am therefore to desire that I may receive His Majesty's Commands thereupon in order that the proper Application may be made to the Lords of His Majesty's Treasury for obtaining His Majesty' s Letters for carrying the same into execution. And Your Lordship will be pleased to notify to me His Majesty’s pleasure with respect to the particular Regiments which are to be removed from this Establishment and the Regiments which are to be placed upon the same in their Room respectively, and whether the days for discontinuing and placing those Corps shall be fixed as upon the days of the Embarkation from hence as specified hereunder, and as it was necessary to advance Four Months Subsistence to the several Regiments upon their Embarkations which from the State of His Majesty's Treasury here was with difficulty supplied. I request that Your Lordship will signify His Majesty's Pleasure upon these Points as soon as conveniently may be that the Treasury here may be enabled to make Charge of the Advances to those Regiments which are to be taken off this Establishment.
The following Regiments embarked for
Boston vizt.
The 17th Regiment of Light
Dragoons on the 10th & 11th April 1775
35th Regiment of
Foot on the 8th April 1775
49th Regiment of
Foot on the 6th April 1775
63d Regiment of Foot on the
7th April 1775
And for New York
The 44th & 45th
Regiments on the 6th of May 1775
22d & 40th
Regiments on the 8th of May 1775
The following Regiments landed in Ireland
vizt.
The 19th Regiment of Foot on the 3d &
5th of March 1775 from Scotland.
30th Regiment of Foot on the 18th of April
1775 from Scotland.
3d & 11th Regiment of Foot
on the 2d, 3d, &5th of May from England.
[Source: David Library, Microfilm of
P.R.O. W.O. 1/680]
[As
transcribed by Gilbert v. Riddle]