FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR]. BRADSTREET, JOHN, General, British Army. Autograph letter signed ("JnBradstreet") to Charles Apthorp, Albany [New York], 3 December 1758, 1 1/4 pages, last quarter of letter with signature cut away and neatly reattached to verso of first page , a very rare autograph letter of the British Commander in North America, who seized Fort Frontenac from the French in August of this year: "I now send Mr. Lovell to Boston to pay all the New England Carpenters employ'd by the Publick this...Campaign and have drawn on your for [#5,045. 14s. 9p]...for that purpose....You will...be so good as to let Mr. Lovell know how much money you paid the Carpenters...and give him any assistance to the settling with the people fairly...."--GAGE, THOMAS, General, British Army . Autograph letter signed (Th:Gage") to an unidentified correspondent, Montreal, 28 September 1762, 1 page, 4to, later ink label at top edge. Gage (later British Commander in Boston during the Revolution) has forwarded a letter and box for Col. Burton in Trois Rivieres: "By a letter I received from him, after the Surrender of the Havannah, he expected to return shortly to the Continent. We hope soon that the French are drove from your Government at St. Johns; and were not a little surpriz'd, that you was not sent upon this errand. By a Letter from an Officer to a Female acquaintance in Montreal, the Monsieurs intended to Winter there. This officer, named Belcombe, was nominated as Governor and He writes the Lady to come, & be the Gouvernment...." (2)
FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR]. BRADSTREET, JOHN, General, British Army. Autograph letter signed ("JnBradstreet") to Charles Apthorp, Albany [New York], 3 December 1758, 1 1/4 pages, last quarter of letter with signature cut away and neatly reattached to verso of first page , a very rare autograph letter of the British Commander in North America, who seized Fort Frontenac from the French in August of this year: "I now send Mr. Lovell to Boston to pay all the New England Carpenters employ'd by the Publick this...Campaign and have drawn on your for [#5,045. 14s. 9p]...for that purpose....You will...be so good as to let Mr. Lovell know how much money you paid the Carpenters...and give him any assistance to the settling with the people fairly...."--GAGE, THOMAS, General, British Army . Autograph letter signed (Th:Gage") to an unidentified correspondent, Montreal, 28 September 1762, 1 page, 4to, later ink label at top edge. Gage (later British Commander in Boston during the Revolution) has forwarded a letter and box for Col. Burton in Trois Rivieres: "By a letter I received from him, after the Surrender of the Havannah, he expected to return shortly to the Continent. We hope soon that the French are drove from your Government at St. Johns; and were not a little surpriz'd, that you was not sent upon this errand. By a Letter from an Officer to a Female acquaintance in Montreal, the Monsieurs intended to Winter there. This officer, named Belcombe, was nominated as Governor and He writes the Lady to come, & be the Gouvernment...." (2)
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