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Folio 232: James Murray to Anthony Chamier. Asks him to ask Weymouth to get permission...

Catalogue reference: SP 89/82/82

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This record is about the Folio 232: James Murray to Anthony Chamier. Asks him to ask Weymouth to get permission... dating from 1776 Aug 1 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 89/82/82
Date
1776 Aug 1
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Folio 232: James Murray to Anthony Chamier. Asks him to ask Weymouth to get permission from Pombal for his distant relation, Charles Campbell, to sell up all his effects in the gold mining area of Brazil, and return to spend his remaining days in Scotland. Also requests that none of his sons in Brazil be impressed for military service. Campbell is now 72, but `one of the most active and healthiest looking men, at that time of life I ever saw', having lived in Brazil for 47 years.

Date and place: 1776 Aug 1 Dunheld.

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