- GLC#
- GLC03902.017-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 15 October 1774
- Author/Creator
- Watson, Brook, 1735-1807
- Title
- to Joshua Mauger
- Place Written
- London, England
- Pagination
- 3 p. : address : docket ; Height: 23.5 cm, Width: 19 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- Road to Revolution
Mauger has been re-elected to parliament for Poole. Watson impatiently awaits a ship from Boston but fears it will bring bad news. ". . .this Country have [sic] enacted Laws they cannot enforce and the Americans have Advanced too far to retreat. The event will prove the Colonies a much [crossed out: freeer] more Independent people than we would willingly allow them to be."
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