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Title:
PRO 30/55/029/007 - Copy Letter from C Jenkinson to Sir Henry Clinton
Date:
1781
Language:
English
Date from:
1781-04-03
Date to:
1781-04-03
Section:
2 : PRO 30/55 - British Army Headquarters Papers
TNA Shelfmark:
PRO 30/55/029/007
Full Description:
Jenkinson to Clinton. War Office. Encloses a copy of a letter received from W Adam, informing him the W Jefferies, late surgeon to the hospital at New York, received £600 from M Laurie in consideration of resigning his commission to that gentleman. This is the only sale even known in the hospital department. Jenkinson does not agree that commissions should have been transacted without permission and asks for the strictest inquiry to be made, and the practice discontinued. Desiring an effectual stop put to proceedings of the like nature in the future.
TNA Link:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16305107
Format:
Handwritten
DOI:
10.1163/37612_WNA_PRO_PRO_30_55_29_7