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[Return of troops, Gorham's Rangers from Nova Scotia]

20 September 1748

Gorham, Joseph, fl. 1748

Date is written in Old Style/New Style: 1747/1748. Muster roll for 61 days between December 25, 1747 and February 23, 1748. List of names and whereabouts of Officers and Private Men in Captain John Gorham's Independent Commission of Rangers, "raised...

GLC01450.439

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countersigned by Sunderland [Commission of John Paul Mascarene to Lieutenant]

5 March 1708

Anne, Queen of Great Britain, 1665-1714

Countersigned by James Taylor as Secretary of War. Appoints Mascarene a Lieutenant in the company of Captain Boyle Smith in a foot regiment commanded by William Lord Montjoy. By the command of Queen Anne I. Date is written in old style 1707/08.

GLC01450.440

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[Commission of John Paul Mascarene to Colonel of Infantry]

01 June 1750

George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760

Appointment of John Paul Mascarine to Colonel of Foot. Signed by Secretary of War Edward Hayes. Signed by the Commissary General [name illegible]. Features a dark blue paper seal. Also written in Hermhausen

GLC01450.442

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Header Record

Collection, mostly pertaining to Jacobite resistance in France [Decimalized .01-.16]

1709-1874

Contains various letters documenting the attempts of Edward Bourke, (sometimes spelled 'Burke') an officer in the Regiment Irelandois of Berwick, to unearth a Jacobite plot in Cambray, France. Bourke possibly worked for, or in connection with...

GLC01450.446

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Document signed

[Muster roll of Thomas Stanwix's regiment of foot]

October 24, 1709- December 23, 1709

Stanwix, Thomas, fl. 1670-1725

Possibly refers to Thomas Stanwix, Governor of Gibraltar 24 January 1711- 7 August 1713. Signed by Stanwix, R. Bucknall, and Garvis Newton. Lists the names of soldiers in Stanwix's regiment, Captain John Caley's company.

GLC01450.446.02

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[Muster roll of Thomas Stanwix's regiment]

October 24, 1709-December 23, 1709

Stanwix, Thomas, fl. 1670-1725

GLC01450.446.03

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Document signed

[In French]

July 1743

Huske, John, fl. 1743

Signed by General Huske.

GLC01450.446.16

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Document signed

Instructions [signals]

21 April 1762

Pocock, George, fl. 1762

Written during the war with Cuba. Signal instructions for the Squadron under the command of Sir George Pocock, Admiral of the Blue Squadron of his Majesty's Fleet. Addressed "To the Master of the Prince George Transport, By Command of the Admiral."...

GLC01450.450

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Louisiana land grant no. 94 [in Spanish]

1794

Prudeau, Carlos, fl. 1794

GLC01450.451

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Newspaper

The Boston gazette and country journal. [No. 210 (April 9 1759)]

9 April 1759

Gill, John, 1732-1785