BIB_ID
459000
Accession number
MA 14909.3
Creator
Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820, sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 24.2 x 19.7 cm
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Signed "Edward / Major General Command. / his Majesty's Forces in Nova Scotia / & Dependencies."
Docketed: "No. 2".
Edward specifies the composition of the detachment with a series of Arabic numerals with superscript rank abbreviations: one captain, three subalterns, four sergeants, two drummers, and 60 private soldiers.
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, including probably this letter (p. 90).
Part of a collection of letters from Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, to Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet (MA 14909).
Docketed: "No. 2".
Edward specifies the composition of the detachment with a series of Arabic numerals with superscript rank abbreviations: one captain, three subalterns, four sergeants, two drummers, and 60 private soldiers.
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, including probably this letter (p. 90).
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
Writing: "In consequence of" Wentworth's "answer to my letter of this date, I propose immediately ordering a Detachment of the [Royal] Nova Scotia [Regiment] consisting of" specified numbers of specific ranks; ordering to hold them "in immediate readiness for Embarkation, in order to proceed without delay to Newfoundland, for the purpose of relieving the Detachment of the King's own [Regiment] now stationed there."
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