AMHERST, JEFFREY, Baron . Letter signed ("Jeff. Amherst") as Governor General of British North America, to Thomas Hancock, Albany [New York], 20 August 1761, 1 page, folio, integral blank. The victor over the French at Louisbourg, Montreal and Ticonderoga, writes to the noted New England merchant (1703-1764, uncle of John Hancock on various matters including military transport: "...The Hundred wheelbarrows you are providing for Major General Bastide are sufficient: You need not bespeak any more, and you will do well to send them off by every opportunity that shall offer, as fast as they are made, otherwise they will be of no use; I approve much of the manner in which you sent the 40 you mention, by which they would go free of charge" -- BURGOYNE, JOHN, General . Autograph letter signed ("J:Burgoyne") as Commander in Chief in Ireland, Dublin, 3 December 1782. 1 pages, 4to . Fine. "Gentlemen Johnny" sends an enclosure [not present] for "General [Henry Seymour?] Conway," on an unspecified matter, adding that he is "apprehensive in the multiplicity of business...it may have been overlooked." Together 2 items . (2)
AMHERST, JEFFREY, Baron . Letter signed ("Jeff. Amherst") as Governor General of British North America, to Thomas Hancock, Albany [New York], 20 August 1761, 1 page, folio, integral blank. The victor over the French at Louisbourg, Montreal and Ticonderoga, writes to the noted New England merchant (1703-1764, uncle of John Hancock on various matters including military transport: "...The Hundred wheelbarrows you are providing for Major General Bastide are sufficient: You need not bespeak any more, and you will do well to send them off by every opportunity that shall offer, as fast as they are made, otherwise they will be of no use; I approve much of the manner in which you sent the 40 you mention, by which they would go free of charge" -- BURGOYNE, JOHN, General . Autograph letter signed ("J:Burgoyne") as Commander in Chief in Ireland, Dublin, 3 December 1782. 1 pages, 4to . Fine. "Gentlemen Johnny" sends an enclosure [not present] for "General [Henry Seymour?] Conway," on an unspecified matter, adding that he is "apprehensive in the multiplicity of business...it may have been overlooked." Together 2 items . (2)
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