BIB_ID
104321
Accession number
MA 1266.43
Creator
Kellie, Thomas Erskine, Earl of, -1828.
Display Date
1809 Feb. 5.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 25.4 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
Volume 9 (MA 1266) of a 33-volume collection of the correspondence of Sir James Pulteney, his family and distinguished contemporaries. (MA 487, MA 297 and MA 1260-1290). The arrangement of the collection is alphabetical by the author of the letter. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information (MA 1266.1-61).
Volume 9 (MA 1266) of a 33-volume collection of the correspondence of Sir James Pulteney, his family and distinguished contemporaries. (MA 487, MA 297 and MA 1260-1290). The arrangement of the collection is alphabetical by the author of the letter. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information (MA 1266.1-61).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Expressing concern for a recruiting provision that "is certainly much against men entering into the Line - and makes them Prefer going as Substitutes in the Militia - Which is, the provision from Countys for their Wives and familys, and while this continues no Man will enter for the Army while he can get a Bounty for the Militia, and his family maintain'd at home - which is of more consequence to a married Man than any Bounty...Seeing that recruiting partys have been stationed in this County for twelve months without enlisting more than two or three men - Besides such a provision falls a very heavy burden upon the Landed property alone!."
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