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Title:
PRO 30/55/052/008 - Autograph Letter
Date:
1782
Language:
English
Date from:
1782-10-16
Date to:
1782-10-16
Section:
2 : PRO 30/55 - British Army Headquarters Papers
TNA Shelfmark:
PRO 30/55/052/008
Full Description:
Information by Joel Tuttle and Levi Munger both of Farmington, Connecticut. Reporting the general dissatisfaction and increasing uneasiness of the common people in the neighbourhood. Money is very scarce. Gives prices of beef and butter. Drought has halved the hay, corn and potato crops. People asking whether it is better to be subject to the British or French king, they generally prefer the former, they suppose if independent of Great Britain, they shall of course be dependent on France. They universally wish for peace. They must suffer much in the ensuing winter with their crops affected by the drought and their taxes paid in the produce of their farms leaving little for their support. Asks whether, if Carleton stated explicit terms of reunion placing America in a situation similar to Ireland extricating them from their present heavy taxes, would the people listen to him and insist on their rulers treating with him. Answer - of the opinion yes. Asks how such offers would be communicated to the common people. Answer - by sending such offers into all parts of Long Island, Block Island, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket and other places within the power of the King's government and whence traders would convey them out to their friends. No date. Endorsed 16 October 1782.
TNA Link:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16372428
Format:
Handwritten
DOI:
10.1163/37612_WNA_PRO_PRO_30_55_52_8