BIB_ID
211935
Accession number
MA 487.15
Creator
Adams, Thomas, -1812.
Display Date
1806 June 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.2 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
It is unclear who Thomas Adams was but there was a Thomas Adams living at "Great Swifts" and then "Swift's Place" in Cranbrook at the time of this writing. He died in 1812.
Volume 1 (MA 487) 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 487.1-46).
It is unclear who Thomas Adams was but there was a Thomas Adams living at "Great Swifts" and then "Swift's Place" in Cranbrook at the time of this writing. He died in 1812.
Volume 1 (MA 487) 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 487.1-46).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Suggesting the need for paid Drill Sergeants "on permanent pay - who must have the care of the Arms - Stores &c - and the duty of calling the men together, forming the parades when assembled - and doing various other matters, that none but persons receiving pecuniary advantages will undertake - I believe in general any alteration (amongst the Volunteers) where a savings to the Nation is the object, will be acceptable to the Majority of the People, but if it is the wish of Administration to keep the Volunteers - it will depend more upon the address & influence of the Commanding Officers than any other method that can be adopted - therefore it should be rendered by Government as easy to them as is consistent with the duty - and without some active man receiving pecuniary allowances under them is appointed, the Corps will not be well managed."
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