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Title:
PRO 30/55/009/055 - Copy Letter from Peter Chester to Brigadier General Prevost
Date:
1778
Language:
English
Date from:
1778-03-21
Date to:
1778-03-21
Section:
2 : PRO 30/55 - British Army Headquarters Papers
TNA Shelfmark:
PRO 30/55/009/055
Full Description:
Peter Chester to Prevost. Pensacola. Report on the activities and movements of Captain James Willing, and Lieutenants Robert George and Thomas McIntyre of the rebel army. Initially joined by 100 men but subsequntly rising to 2,000 or 3,000, they made their way down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Chester encounters how the inhabitants of Natchez had asked him for the assistance of men from his garrison, but he did not have enough, and that he had ordered a sloop of War to obstruct the Americans passage. Endeavouring to find men to raise a Provincial Corps under John McGillivray Esquire. Requests that troops be sent to protect against an enemy invasion of the area.
TNA Link:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16174619
Format:
Handwritten
DOI:
10.1163/37612_WNA_PRO_PRO_30_55_9_55