BIB_ID
458996
Accession number
MA 14909.1
Creator
Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820, sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.9 x 18.25 cm
Notes
Written "In Carlisle Bay on Board his / Majesty's Packet Roebuck."
Signed "Edward / Major General &c."
Edward visited Boston, Massachusetts between 6 and 16 February, the first British prince to visit the United States.
Edward was made colonel of the 7th Regiment of Foot (Royal Fusiliers) in 1789.
See: Douglas Brymner, Report on Canadian Archives [1891] (Ottawa: S.E. Dawson, 1892), Q. 70, pp. 88-90, for synopses of a contemporaneous series of letters among Prince Edward, governor-in-chief Lord Dorchester, and Wentworth on the movement of regiments.
Part of a collection of letters from Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, to Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet (MA 14909).
Signed "Edward / Major General &c."
Edward visited Boston, Massachusetts between 6 and 16 February, the first British prince to visit the United States.
Edward was made colonel of the 7th Regiment of Foot (Royal Fusiliers) in 1789.
See: Douglas Brymner, Report on Canadian Archives [1891] (Ottawa: S.E. Dawson, 1892), Q. 70, pp. 88-90, for synopses of a contemporaneous series of letters among Prince Edward, governor-in-chief Lord Dorchester, and Wentworth on the movement of regiments.
Part of a collection of letters from Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, to Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet (MA 14909).
Provenance
Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Thanking Wentworth for "sending his Majesty's Packet Boat the Roebuck to Boston for my accommodation; It has been of the most singular service in enabling me to forward his Majesty's commands" as "otherwise I should in all probability have been detained a very considerable time at Boston" before having been able "to proceed to the West Indies"; informing "there is some probability after the Campaign in the West Indies" that he will be ordered "to return to North America till further orders" in which case he "might be stationed at Halifax instead of Quebec"; explaining this would result in transfer of "my regiment (the Roy. Fuzileers [sic])" from "thence to Nova Scotia"; stating in such case he will "[pay] you personally" his compliments and "assur[e] you how grateful I feel" for the "attention you were so good as to pay me in affording me the only opportunity of obeying the King's Commands."
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