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Title:
PRO 30/55/022/067 - Autograph Letter from Rd Hughes to General Sir Henry Clinton
Date:
1780
Language:
English
Date from:
1780-03-01
Date to:
1780-03-01
Section:
2 : PRO 30/55 - British Army Headquarters Papers
TNA Shelfmark:
PRO 30/55/022/067
Full Description:
Lieutenant Governor Sir Richard Hughes to Clinton, Government House, Halifax. Requests an answer to the enclosed letter from several inahbitants concerning erecting the barracks at Corwallis for the accommodation of the King's troops, and whose demands he is unable to satisfy. Also that when the Hessian battalion under De Seitz arrived at Halifax the German inhabitants were recommended to receive and quarter them in their houses. Has applied to Brigadier-General McLean for payment to those people, but he answers he cannot without his (the commander-in-chief's) particular directions.
TNA Link:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16305465
Format:
Handwritten
DOI:
10.1163/37612_WNA_PRO_PRO_30_55_22_67