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Extract of a letter from Lieutenant Francis Evans to the Board, the Fox transport,...
Catalogue reference: ADM 354/188/377
What’s it about?
This record is about the Extract of a letter from Lieutenant Francis Evans to the Board, the Fox transport,... dating from 1773 Dec 27.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- ADM 354/188/377
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1773 Dec 27
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Description (What the record is about)
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Extract of a letter from Lieutenant Francis Evans to the Board, the Fox transport, St. George's Bay, Granada. The Fox and Palliser Transport anchored here on the 20th. The Russian Merchant transport on the 21st. and the 3 Companies of HM 48th Regiment, on board the Palliser, landed at St. George Town on the 22nd. On the 25th the Palliser received 2 companies of HM 48th Regiment from the Fox, to convey them to Barbados Bay in the Tobago Island, to relieve the 2 companies of the 70th Regiment. She will go to St. Vincent to wait further orders from General Leyborne. The Russian merchant is now under way for Roseau in the Dominica transport, where she will land the 2nd company of the 48th Regiment, embark the 2nd Company of the 70th Regiment and go to St. Vincent to wait further orders from General Leyborne. Expects to sail today for Chateau-bel-Air in St. Vincent to land the 3 companies of the 48th Regiment, to refit the Fox transport, either there or here and to receive the troops of the 70th Regiment that are to return to Chateau-bel-Air for a detachment of the 70th Regiment and to wait there for further orders from General Leyborne. The Palliser sails today and anchors at Goyave, Granada, to complete her water on the passage to Tobago
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- National Maritime Museum: The Caird Library, Manuscripts Section
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- ADM B/188
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open Immediately
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10264363/
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Extract of a letter from Lieutenant Francis Evans to the Board, the Fox transport,...