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Title:
PRO 30/55/049/030 - Autograph Letter from Mrs Mary Butler to Sir Guy Carleton
Date:
1782
Language:
English
Date from:
1782-09-16
Date to:
1782-09-16
Section:
2 : PRO 30/55 - British Army Headquarters Papers
TNA Shelfmark:
PRO 30/55/049/030
Full Description:
Mary Butler to Carleton. Philadelphia. That when Lord Cornwallis commanded in South Carolina, all the 'negroes' on Mr Butler's different plantations were sent to Charleston where they have remained in the Engineer's Department. Such as were not her own property by marriage settlement had already been disposed of and she is informed that Major Moncrief of the engineers at Charleston boasts of his determination to remove all her 'negroes', amounting to about 200, to his own lands in East Florida. Asks that, as it is within Carleton's power, he prevent the removal or, if this has already happened, have the 'negroes' restored to her. Mentions the unfeeling and mercenary actions of Majors Wegines [?] and Cochrane and Colonel Ferguson.
TNA Link:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16355741
Format:
Handwritten
DOI:
10.1163/37612_WNA_PRO_PRO_30_55_49_30