Brandt, Sebastian, fl. 1600-1625 to Henry Hovener
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00708 Author/Creator: Brandt, Sebastian, fl. 1600-1625 Place Written: Virginia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: January 13, 1622 Pagination: 3 p. : docket ; 31.5 x 20.5 cm Order a Copy
Requests having the London Company send him supplies. Requests his nephew (the son of Phillip Brandt) be sent to Virginia from Derbyshire. Mentions Admiral of the Jamestown District John Pountis. Written in Elizabethan secretarial hand. Docket, in another hand, reads: "Sebastian Brands letter to Mr. Hojener 13 January }1622/1 That ther is Mynes of Gould and Silver and Copper in Virginia." It is unclear if the date is old style or new style.
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