C17th Naval Pomeroys

The rating of a ship was an indication of quantity rather than quality ; it refers to the number of guns, which in turn decided the crew size & therefore the stores & supplies.   Thus a 3rd rate ship was smaller with fewer guns than a 1st rate one.
A full-rigged ship first-rate ship of the line was 1298 tons & had 96-guns.    

note The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland  took place on 1 July 1690  when the forces of the Protestant William of Orange defeated the army of the Catholic James II whose army consisting mainly of raw recruits.

 Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies, BHO

Capt. Whitney to Governor Hamilton. St. Christophers. Rose. wrote

March 31st.  1721    Capt. Pomeroy has seized two French sloops of some valew. We believe there's proof enough to make them prizes, if thears fear play done us etc. If they be condemned, you shall find (notwithstanding what sicophants may say to you) we shall behave in that case very justly in what shall relate to you. I sho'd gone to Windward ere this but expected advice of that Spaniard which I judge by enquiry from Holladay to be a Guard d'Costa. Signed, Thomas Whitney. Same endorsement. Copy. 1 p.

..... the London ship arrived for St. Christophers, and returned not till the 26 April, and then would not come into the Road or Harbour of Saint Johns as usual, but anchored in a more remote place from thence he sent me a letter by Capt. Pomeroy with an information that he believed the Great Pirate Roberts was cruising off Desseada and that so soon as the Shark joyned him he would cruise in quest of said Roberts in the tract of Barbados where afterwards he would victual and desired to know if I had any commands that way whereupon I sent him a letter by Captain Porneroy with information that several ships were daily expected to these Islands, and therefore I had sent him written orders to cruise to windward of Desseada between that Island and Barbouda that being the most likely place to meet pirates and to protect the trade from their insults. I also ordered him not to go to Barbados unless necessity required but to return to this Island in order to carry me to leeward, but what regard that Gentleman will have to these orders time only can determine. Thus your Lordships may perceive that I am confined by Captain Whitneys capricious temper, and am disabled from visiting the other Islands tho' H.M. affairs and service require my presence never so much there. Signed, W. Hamilton. Endorsed, Recd. 28th July, Read 14th Sept., 1721. 5½ pp. Enclosed,

 Thomas Pomeroy chursurgeon, on board ' Royal Anne'  with his brother  WILLIAM POMERY Captain of HMS ROYAL ANNE -
PCC Will  of 13 feb 1770.   his brother  Thomas POMEROY, was chirugeon of Weymouth & Melcombe Regis,
brother Administrator  with  Charles LANGRISH, [illegible] of Weymouth & Melcombe Regis 13 Feb 1709/10 DA/A/1710 39I found Pomeroys living in Weymouth & Melcombe Regis inland at Ryme Intrinseca & at Bere Hackett in Dorset some 25 or 30 miles inland from Weymouth .

14 JUN 1646 baptised at Beer Hackett, William son of  SAMUELL POMERY -  born during the Civil War Period he would have been 20 in 1666 and the Anglo Dutch wars.

 The Will of Anthony SMITH - 24 April 1760 West Lulworth Dorset -(near Swanage & Weymouth).....Rent due to me from William Pomeroy of Greenwich in the County of Kent for my Two Houses in Greenwich aforesaid And also all Moneys due to me from the Custom House at Weymouth for Seizures Sallary or otherwise

Edward & Sir Ferdinando Gorges.
In the year 1620 King James 1    granted a charter to the "Northern Company", consisting of the Earls of Arundel and Warwick,  other noblemen including Sir Ferdinando Gorges and certain private gentlemen who were called "The council established at Plymouth in the  County of Devon for the planting and governing"-" of New England in America." Full details of this patent and its history may be found in the  publications of the Maine Historical Society.

Under this patent, on Dec. 1, 1631, the rights "to fowle and fishe" on a grant of land including Cape Elizabeth and Richmond Island were granted  being signed by the Earl of Warwick, Edward Gorges and Sir Ferdinando Gorges.
His early involvement in English trade with and settlement of  North America  as well as his efforts in founding the  Province of Maine  in 1622 earned him the title of the "Father of English Colonization in  North America,"[ even though Gorges himself never set foot in the  New World.

Anne Pomeroy  sister of Sir Richard Pomeroy of Berry Pomeroy , children of Henry Pomeroy & his 1st wife Alice Raleigh -

Anne married the 1st ofher 3 husbands  Robert Buckdockshide and they had at least 3 children
their  son Thomas Budockshide born about 1447 married Margeret  Hallwell and their daughter Winifred Budockshide   married Sir William Gorges

A letter from  the wife of Sir William Gorges, the Lady Winifred nee Budockshide , may be seen among the Landsdowne Manuscripts, 109, foL 187. It is as follows: — 

Cousin Hicks, — Though I clame nor know any debt due, yet finding this among many others of greater value, I pray you keep it for a remembrance when occasion shall serve to speak a good word to the Lord Treasurer, who ought to be pricked in confidence to helpe me, considering how many paynfull journeys Mr Gorges served in his chargeable sute & long delayes, what toyle bellowed on the Tower which I nor any of mine might enjoy. If I could have forgotten for every thousand but a hundred, it w<* have pleafea me, though the recompense had been (malle. I have beene & am very ficke, wd fayne go to Bathe to get helthe, but my purse is fo weake I am not able. I lye in an odd corner of my Lady Russiell's as much as I shifte to pay hir rente.

I spoke to my Lord; he will go to His Majelty— a Tutor wanting helthe & money (hall get little at the Courte but more griefe. I hope if any wd remember his Honour, he w*1 shewe some pytyfull favour. If you will be the instrument you (hall ern onner for a recompense, besides the poor widowes prayers. I doubt not but God will prosper you the better for my hartes commendations. bid you farewell. My lodgings by Russell Houfe this VI of April.

Your cos in & friend, Winifred Gorges.  Endorsed: Lord Stafford.

Cousin Hicks may be Thomas Hicks Hext Mayor of Launceston whose granddaughter Jane Hext in 1601 married  Andrew Pomeroy of Collaton in Newton Ferres - very close to Plymouth

On Jan. 18, 1632, Robert Trelawney and Moses Goodyear gave John Winter and Thomas Pomeroy a power of attorney to operate the fisherie and trading post from Cape Elizabeth to the Spurwink River. In the spring of that year, Winter set out for America, arriving on July 21, 1632, when he took possession of Richmond Island from Richard Vines, whom he found living there.

Richmond Island had already figured in the early history of the province. As early as 1624 it was a trading post for George Richmond, hence its name.

This indenture, as will be seen, recites a grant from the Council for New England to Thomson, under date of 16th of October 1622. The records of the Council show no grant to him under that date: but under 16th of November we read, "Mr. Thomson's patent was this day signed by the above said Council." It may have been drawn in the previous month, and the date inserted, but not signed till later.