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Folio 5: Stormont to Vergennes. He gives evidence of 2 ships from Jamaica being taken...

Catalogue reference: SP 78/304/2

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SP 78/304/2
Date
1777 Aug 28
Description

Folio 5: Stormont to Vergennes. He gives evidence of 2 ships from Jamaica being taken as prizes by American privateers. All have come to Nantes with false papers. He asks that the English prisoners be released and the privateers be ordered to leave at once and that the Jamaican ships be sequestered.

Date and place: 1777 Aug 28 Paris.

Note
Enclosed in f.1. Copy.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7348363/

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Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, France

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