Record ID:
128829
Accession number:
MA 297.29
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 23.1 cm
Notes:
Volume 2 (MA 297) 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 297.1-65).
Summary:
Complying with his orders to send "Patroles from Fort to Fort during the night and upon all Occasions the Regiment will exert its utmost Vigilance in discovering and giving the earliest Intelligence of an Enemy should any appear upon this Coast...;" reporting on other troop locations for additional surveillance and intelligence gathering .
Provenance:
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
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