Vice-Admiral Salmon Morrice collection contains twenty-two commissions, 1690-1728; a certificate of registry as a seaman, 1696; an order from Richard Coote, Earl of Bellamont, Governor of New York, 28 October 1700; an Admission as Burgess and Gildbrother of Edinburgh, 19 March 1709

William Wright collection consists of four commissions 1690-1701; warrant appointing him Master Attendant at Cadiz, 27 September 1694; certificate of registry as a seaman, 1696; oath as freeman of Rochester, 29 April 1699; letter patent of appointment as Commissioner at Plymouth, 13 May 1703; two documents relating to personal accounts, 1712-14.

Robert Chadwick collection consists of Six commissions, 1702-14 and Major Nordash Rand collection has four commissions in the army, 1692-1715.

Administrative / biographical background
This collection relates to four men all flourishing in the late seventeenth to early eighteenth centuries. The largest group relates to Vice-Admiral Salmon Morrice which cover his career from Lieutenant in 1691 to Vice-Admiral of the blue in 1728. Morrice’s final appointment was to Vice-Admiral of the white in June 1732. He retired in 1734. William Wright (d.1735) was made a lieutenant in 1688 and was appointed to Captain in the same year and saw action at the Battle of La Hogue in 1692. In 1694 he was made Master Attendant at Cadiz. His sea-going career came to an end when in 1702 he was appointed a commissioner of the victualling office. He resigned this post in the following year after which he became commissioner at Plymouth. In 1704 he became commissioner at Lisbon until 1708 when he returned to be commissioner at Plymouth. He held this post until he was dismissed in 1711. He died at Deptford in 1735. See LAD/20 for Wrights letter book 1703, 1709-1710.) Robert Chadwick was made Lieutenant in 1702 and a Captain in 1710. He died in 1719. See ADM/L/G/179 for a logbook kept by him on the GUERNEY.