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Translation into English of SP 87/37/32. f. 84
Catalogue reference: SP 87/37/34
Date: 1760 February 2
Translation into English of SP 87/37/32. f. 84
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Folios 47-48. A letter from John Porten to Sir Stanier Porten, dated at Treasury...
Catalogue reference: SP 37/23/25
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Folios 47-48. A letter from John Porten to Sir Stanier Porten, dated at Treasury Chambers [Whitehall, Middlesex] concerning information against [Thomas Attwood] Diggs [Digges of Maryland] who has been active at Bristol [Gloucestershire, for the American rebels] and will soon appear in Spain as an agent of Congress. He has recruited, pilots at Bristol [Gloucestershire] familiar with the North American coast and sent them to Bordeaux, Dunkirk and Nantes [France], enhancing trade in tobacco, rice and indigo with Virginia. He also plans to ship musket locks to Bilbao, Spain, as he did last summer. [Silas] Dean and [Benjamin] Franklin are acting with him.
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