FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR]. GAGE, Thomas (1721-1787). Governor of Massachusetts . Autograph letter signed ("Tho s . Gage") as British Commander-in-Chief in North America, to an unknown recipient, Montreal, 2 November 1762. 1 page, 4to, integral blank . SUPPLYING THE CROWN POINT AND TICONDEROGA GARRISONS. Gage details provisions sent to posts on Lakes Champlain and Ontario, including his last supply train of the year to Fort William Augustus, carrying "full two thousand Barrels" of flour. Another is headed to Crown Point: "some Batteau are repairing & will in a Day or two carry Seven Hundred & Eighty Barrels of flower [ sic ] to Crown Point." He notes: "This will finish my Transportation for this year...there is sent for Lake Champlain sufficient to maintain 2000 men for 24 months and to Lake Ontario sufficient for the same number of men for 18 months." Gage, later Governor of Massachusetts, gave the orders which resulted in the battles of Lexington and Concord and Bunker Hill. -- SHIRLEY, William (1694-1771). General, Governor of Massachusetts . Manuscript document signed ("W Shirley"), [Boston], 22 August 1755. 1 page, oblong folio (12 7/8 x 15 in), ON VELLUM, soiling, two very small holes . THE COMMISSION OF JOHN BRADSTREET (1711-1774) as "Lieutenant Colonel and Commander in Chief of all the unregimented Irregular Troops and Indians employed and to be employed in his Majesty's Service in the present Expedition against the French Fort at Niagara and elsewhere upon the Lakes Ontario and Erie." It was Bradstreet who induced Gov. Shirley to mount the expedition which seized Louisbourg in 1745, and he played a critical role in several Northern campaigns of the French and Indian war, taking Fort Frontenac in August 1758. -- BRADSTREET, John. Colonial officer . Autograph letter signed ("Jn Bradstreet") to John Sanders Albany, 29 August 1762. 1 page, folio, integral address leaf, browning . SETTLING A DISPUTE. Bradstreet attempts to settle a dispute between Sanders and the brother of Harry Glen, but thinks "it can never be settled but by a course of Law or by Arbitrators. Arbitrators is what Mr. Glen would chuse [ sic ] to avoid expence [ sic ] and trouble." Bradstreet thus asks Sanders to chose an arbitrator. Together three items . (3)
FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR]. GAGE, Thomas (1721-1787). Governor of Massachusetts . Autograph letter signed ("Tho s . Gage") as British Commander-in-Chief in North America, to an unknown recipient, Montreal, 2 November 1762. 1 page, 4to, integral blank . SUPPLYING THE CROWN POINT AND TICONDEROGA GARRISONS. Gage details provisions sent to posts on Lakes Champlain and Ontario, including his last supply train of the year to Fort William Augustus, carrying "full two thousand Barrels" of flour. Another is headed to Crown Point: "some Batteau are repairing & will in a Day or two carry Seven Hundred & Eighty Barrels of flower [ sic ] to Crown Point." He notes: "This will finish my Transportation for this year...there is sent for Lake Champlain sufficient to maintain 2000 men for 24 months and to Lake Ontario sufficient for the same number of men for 18 months." Gage, later Governor of Massachusetts, gave the orders which resulted in the battles of Lexington and Concord and Bunker Hill. -- SHIRLEY, William (1694-1771). General, Governor of Massachusetts . Manuscript document signed ("W Shirley"), [Boston], 22 August 1755. 1 page, oblong folio (12 7/8 x 15 in), ON VELLUM, soiling, two very small holes . THE COMMISSION OF JOHN BRADSTREET (1711-1774) as "Lieutenant Colonel and Commander in Chief of all the unregimented Irregular Troops and Indians employed and to be employed in his Majesty's Service in the present Expedition against the French Fort at Niagara and elsewhere upon the Lakes Ontario and Erie." It was Bradstreet who induced Gov. Shirley to mount the expedition which seized Louisbourg in 1745, and he played a critical role in several Northern campaigns of the French and Indian war, taking Fort Frontenac in August 1758. -- BRADSTREET, John. Colonial officer . Autograph letter signed ("Jn Bradstreet") to John Sanders Albany, 29 August 1762. 1 page, folio, integral address leaf, browning . SETTLING A DISPUTE. Bradstreet attempts to settle a dispute between Sanders and the brother of Harry Glen, but thinks "it can never be settled but by a course of Law or by Arbitrators. Arbitrators is what Mr. Glen would chuse [ sic ] to avoid expence [ sic ] and trouble." Bradstreet thus asks Sanders to chose an arbitrator. Together three items . (3)
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