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Title:
PRO 30/55/057/021 - Copy Letter from Brook Watson to Lieut Colo Delancey
Date:
1782
Language:
English
Date from:
1782-12-14
Date to:
1782-12-14
Section:
2 : PRO 30/55 - British Army Headquarters Papers
TNA Shelfmark:
PRO 30/55/057/021
Full Description:
Brook Watson, Commissary-General to Colonel Oliver De Lancey, Adjutant-General. New York. Acknowledging letters accompanying a memorial of William Abbot, a merchant of Halifax as to the scarcity of flour there. Making the suggestion that as the season is so far advanced as to render navigation dangerous, and as the King's stores are supplied with flour to victual the troops for 600 days, that the agents be permitted to be allowed to buy and deliver into the Kings stores 1,000 barrels for the inhabitants.
TNA Link:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16423664
Format:
Handwritten
DOI:
10.1163/37612_WNA_PRO_PRO_30_55_57_21