Letter from Rear-Adm. Sir Samuel Hood to General Jacob de Budé reporting his efforts to return to the West Indies, enclosing copies of letters he sent to Admiral Digby on the subject (0653-0654) and his hopes that Digby would go with him to the West Indies and that Prince William might pass the winter months there, remarking further on the missed opportunities and mistakes he felt were made by Rear-Adm. Graves previously, and his opinion that New York would not be in any danger until the beginning of April at the earliest.

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from the day I leave the wet of New York, untill the first of next April, or untill the Ships of your Squadron, return, & make, some part of the Coast of North America in the spring, as you may most approve. I think it right in me to make this proposition, and it rests with you to accept or reject it, and if what I suggest meets your approbation, will not be right to give out that your Squadron, is going to cruize off Rhode Island? I am ever with great regard & esteem my dear Admiral Digby, most sincere and faithfull humble servant Sam: Hood [[underline]] Copy [[/underline]]


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