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Title:
PRO 30/55/052/033 - Autograph Letter from Samuel Hake
Date:
1782
Language:
English
Date from:
1782-10-18
Date to:
1782-10-18
Section:
2 : PRO 30/55 - British Army Headquarters Papers
TNA Shelfmark:
PRO 30/55/052/033
Full Description:
Samuel Hake to Carleton. New York, No 86 Broadway. Memorial. That in the early stages of the conflict he evidenced his loyalty by rendering essential services to Governors Tryon and Franklin, and General Skinner. That in his loyalty to the Crown he chose to return to England from where he was sent out again under extraordinary sanctions. That he was captured on his passage and taken into Connecticut; thence as a prisoner [of war] obtained liberty to visit his conections, the Livingstons; was allowed to come into New York ostensibly to effect his exchange whilst his principal aim was to communicate to the King's Commissioners of 1778, then there, matters of weighty concern. The Commissioners entrusted him with a number of proclamations and goods to the amount upwards of £1,600 sterling. On account of the proclamations the goods were condemned and he was confined for three years and treated with the utmost rigour until, having formed with others a plan to extricate the Loyalists from the tyranny under which they laboured, he escaped bringing with him the whole plan with subscribers to the amount of 2,434 Loyalists the details of which he laid before Carleton on his arrival on 8 June last. That the Loyalists are still willing from recent accounts to carry out the grand design. That Sir Henry Clinton, to whom it was addressed, being prevented by circumstances from pursuing the business, desired him to remain in the city until the situation improved and allowed him two rations, a billet of two rooms and fuel all which were stopped 20 May last. The losses he has sustained will appear from an enclosed deposition. On raising the subject of him continuing to receive rations &c, he was assured that the matter would be dealt with. That he is not on the refugee list and received the rations from the proper department without reference to Mr Morris. Prays for orders from Carleton on this head. Endorsement dated 26 December 1782 quoting minutes of the Council of New York 20 December 1782 that if the civil courts were open they should recommend that Hake be committed to prison and prosecuted for libel; he is at present on the pension list at home for £200 a year.
TNA Link:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16372453
Format:
Handwritten
DOI:
10.1163/37612_WNA_PRO_PRO_30_55_52_33