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Title:
PRO 30/55/039/045 - Copy Letter from C Skinner
Date:
1782
Language:
English
Date from:
1782-04-26
Date to:
1782-04-26
Section:
2 : PRO 30/55 - British Army Headquarters Papers
TNA Shelfmark:
PRO 30/55/039/045
Full Description:
Brigadier-General Cortland Skinner. Staten Island. Instructions to the officer commanding the detachment ordered to relieve the garrison at Sandy Hook Lighthouse. They include the giving of a receipt for ammunition, &c. delivered by the officer commanding on this island, the men are not to stroll about the Hook but be always near the lighthouse, and that he is not to leave the post without permission. He is to make a weekly state of the garrison, that no expedition with refugees or others is to be made without permission, and that deserters from the enemy and others are to be sent to headquarters. Instructions are to be delivered to the officer relieving him.
TNA Link:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16324090
Format:
Handwritten
DOI:
10.1163/37612_WNA_PRO_PRO_30_55_39_45