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Letter to Thomas Hancock [manuscript]

by: Belcher, Jonathan, 1710-1776; Hancock, Thomas, 1703-1764, recipient; Boston Public Library. American Revolutionary War Manuscripts Collection

Publication date: 1762

Topics: Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797, Hendry, Tom

Publisher: Halifax

Collection: bplscarwm; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Holograph, signed

Title provided by cataloger

Dated: Halifax, 1 July 1762

"You will favor me in causing the enclosed letter to be dispatched to Major General Amherst, The Honorable Thomas Hancock, Esquire."

Concerning Thomas Hendry who had been recommended by Hancock and who was presently on a tour of Cobequid with a view to settling there. He also thanks Hancock for shrubs and rosebushes for his garden

The Boston Public Library's American Revolutionary War Manuscripts Collection has been cataloged and digitized through the generous support of the Yale Class of 1955