Governor Jonathan Law papers, 1741-1750.

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Governor Jonathan Law papers, 1741-1750.

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Correspondence, orders, reports, and extracts of acts passed by the Connecticut General Assembly, written to or by Jonathan Law, Governor of Connecticut from 1741-1750. The bulk of the documents in this collection relate to the activities surrounding King George's War, and the siege of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia. Many missives concern recruiting and provisioning troops. There are letters to and from Connecticut's agent in England, Eliakim Palmer, from George Wyllys, Roger Wolcott, Spencer Phipps, William Pitkin, Andrew Burr, Massachusetts Governor William Shirley, Rhode Island Governor Greene, statesman and military commander Sir William Pepperrell, and British Admiral Peter Warren. Other documents relate to negotiations with the Six Nations, the capture of a French East India Ship, 1745, Indian attacks at the border, and a counterfeiting case. Also of interest are several letters regarding the borders between Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and two letters from Thomas Wentworth of Kingston, Jamaica, about French activities in that area.

5 folio volumes.

Connecticut Historical Society

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