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Title:
PRO 30/55/020/115 - Autograph Letter from Margaret Bignel to Sir Henry Clinton
Date:
1779
Language:
English
Period:
1779 : 1780
Section:
2 : PRO 30/55 - British Army Headquarters Papers
TNA Shelfmark:
PRO 30/55/020/115
Full Description:
Margaret Bignel, wife of Robert Bignel to Clinton. Petition. Recounts that her husband has settled at George Town, Maryland. That he was forced to leave or join the rebel militia, that he put his family and effects on a flat bottomed boat and arrived safely at Portsmouth, Virginia but the boat was taken from them on the pretence of being employed in fetching provisions for the 'Blonde'. That on coming from Charlestown [Charleston] to New York their goods were taken and her husband serving afterwards on a privateer was captured by the Americans and detained a prisoner for four months. Begs rations for herself and child.
TNA Link:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16266189
Format:
Handwritten
DOI:
10.1163/37612_WNA_PRO_PRO_30_55_20_115