BIB_ID
372333
Accession number
MA 693.25
Creator
Townshend, William, approximately 1745-1816.
Display Date
1800 Nov. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 25.4 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters related to Edmund Burke; see main record for MA 693 for more information.
The letter mentions that Townshend purchased "Mr. Burk[']s lands" on Prince Edward Island, but there is no obvious connection to Edmund Burke.
The letter mentions that Townshend purchased "Mr. Burk[']s lands" on Prince Edward Island, but there is no obvious connection to Edmund Burke.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1910.
Summary
Noting that he has "never received one shilling" from the "purchase of Mr. Burk[']s lands"; complaining that the settlers on Prince Edward Island have been "instigated by the Abby Callone, and assisted by a Mr. [John] Wentworth who came here lately in the office of Attorney General" to "set up a claim to the lands themselves, by length of possession and as having been forfeited to the crown for non performance of the conditions on which they were granted"; adding that "most of the tenantry [have] refused to pay their rents"; telling him that the bearer of this letter, a Captain Stewart, will fill him in on the particulars; asking for help in "procuring such a settlement of our colonial affairs as will effectually protect us in future from the effects of such unhappy delusions."
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