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Title:
PRO 30/55/048/017 - Copy Letter from O L Delancey
Date:
1782
Language:
English
Date from:
1782-08-26
Date to:
1782-08-26
Section:
2 : PRO 30/55 - British Army Headquarters Papers
TNA Shelfmark:
PRO 30/55/048/017
Full Description:
De Lancey. Paper headed 'A copy of a Meml. from Lord Cornwallis'. That Lord Cornwallis had issued an order that the inhabitants of York, Elizabeth City and Warwick County [Virginia] deliver up their arms and on giving parole be protected and paid for whatever property, corn and cattle were needed for the troops. That large supplies were received and receipts and certificates issued but owing to lack of money at York few could be paid in cash. In order to satisfy the people who became impatient for payment and for other reasons, the merchants were told to take the receipts in payment for the goods and depend on being paid such as were regularly endorsed when a sufficient sum of money arrived from New York. For the avoidance of disputes certification was to be by Lieutenant-Colonel Hamilton and Mr Hubbard who were well acquainted with the common rates in that part of Virginia. Lord Cornwallis had some time ago ordered that all those receipts or certificates presented at Charleston should be paid immediately but many now being in New York he requests that the Commander-in-Chief might order that any presented at the Commissary-General's office in New York be paid.
TNA Link:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16353012
Format:
Handwritten
DOI:
10.1163/37612_WNA_PRO_PRO_30_55_48_17