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Part 2, Folio 36. From Mr [John] Bridger. To Viscount Townshend, Secretary of State....

Catalogue reference: SP 35/77/107

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SP 35/77/107
Date
[c 1727]
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Part 2, Folio 36. From Mr [John] Bridger. To Viscount Townshend, Secretary of State.

A petition for reward based on 27 years of service as surveyor of his Majesty's Woods and for raising naval stores in America. Mentions: the quantity of tar, pitch, turpentine and resin exported; the security he was forced to resort to during 'the Indian Wars' [i.e. King William's and Queen Anne's Wars]; and the denial of the Crown's rights to the woods by the public assembly at Boston [Massachusetts]. Dated according to his stated appointment in 1696, his 27 year tenure, and his dismissal four years ago.

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