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Identifier: correspondenceof01shir (find matches)
Title: Correspondence of William Shirley, governor of Massachusetts and military commander in America, 1731-1760
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Shirley, William, 1694-1771 Lincoln, Charles Henry, 1869-1938 Massachusetts. Governor (1741-1757 : Shirley) National Society of the Colonial Dames of America
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Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Belknap Manuscripts,61 B, p. 55. Pepperrells 1400-word letter to Shirley of May 12giving an account of the engagement with the French at Chap-peaurouge Bay and the favorable position gained as a result hadprobably not been read at this time. In another place Shirleyspeaks of receiving it on Friday (May 17), but although in hourlyexpectation of news, the packet was as yet unopened. Pepperrellsletter of May 12 was sent to Newcastle and is in P. R. O., C. O. 5,900, p. 183. A copy was forwarded to Governor Law of Connecticuton May 18 (see Conn. Hist. Soc. Coll. 11, 289), and a second copyforwarded to England is in Admir. Sec. Insular Letters, 3817. Itwas in reply to this letter that Shirley wrote Pepperrell on May 22 :your packet has given me and the Council and your country thehighest satisfaction in your conduct which, we hope, will soon com-pass the reduction of Louisbourg itself. 6 Mass. Hist. Soc. 10,205. 218 i ■<; V 4 .^ ^ -§,«,^^ :s § s a -5 s -i X «3^ cs tq fe; ^s a, v^ s
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CORRESPONDENCE OF WILLIAM SHIRLEY em home as soon as may be; But all these things must giveway to his Majestys Service in the present Expedition, wchmust be consulted in the first place : And whatever the Com-modore shall determine concerning the Employment of anyof the Cruizers will I am sure be quite satisfactory to theprovince : If Sanders likewise can be spard, we have usefor him here. But we must referr every thing intirely to theCommodore and you in this Affair. If you have room to fill up a first Lieutenancy for youngMr Cosby, I should be glad, as also for Colonel BradstreetsNephews, who went in Captn Gayton. We are in hourlyexpectation of News from you ; and with our most ArdentWishes and prayers for your Success I amSir Your most Assurd and Faithful Friend and Servant W. Shirley. Lieut. Genl. Pepperrill. WILLIAM SHIRLEY TO WILLIAM PEPPERRELL (Extract ^) Boston, May 25, 1745.Sir, In answer to the letters I sent to the governments of NewEngland pressing for a reinforcement of m

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